Half-Naked Connecticut Woman Abandoned At Hospital Likely Died Of Botched Butt Lift Injection: Doctors

A Connecticut woman died early Tuesday after doctors believe a butt-enhancement injection went awry.

Maxine Messam, 53, was left at a Bronx hospital in a half-naked condition, authorities said. The police are on the lookout for two mystery women, who drove Messam to Jacobi Medical Center early Tuesday in her BMW SUV, and then walked away, leaving the vehicle behind, according to New York Daily News.

“We don’t know what happened,” the victim’s shocked husband, Carlos Simpson, told the New York Daily News outside the family’s home in Bridgeport. “She was at work and she left work. So we don’t know what happened from there.”

The police were alerted about the incident by the hospital shortly after the woman died.

Hospital staff said Messam was naked from the waist down when she was left at the hospital. She also had needle marks on her body. The doctors found a foreign substance had been injected into her buttocks.

The doctors said there are risks involving such procedures, even when done correctly by trained surgeons.

"There are risks, one of those risks is getting into an artery or vein and having fat get into that artery or vein, that can be a deadly situation," Dr. Scot Glasberg, a board certified cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgeon in Manhattan, who is helping New York State develop more safety guidelines for fat grafting of the buttocks, said, according to ABC7.

The two women reportedly told the hospital staff a "different story that had nothing to do with butt injections,” an NYPD spokesman told The Daily Beast.

They cast themselves as Good Samaritans to the hospital staff, claiming they found Messam in distress at Woodlawn Cemetery and wanted to help her, before taking off. The identity of the women has not been ascertained. It is also unclear how the women knew Messam.

“Everybody is really emotionally damaged at this point in time,” Messam’s son, who declined to give his name, said. “I would like to say something, but we don’t have all the details.”

An autopsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of death, the police said.

The public records show Messam lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and worked for the state’s Department of Developmental Services.