Cosmetic Medicine

Florida Woman Embezzles $170,000 to Buy Breast Implants

The first sign something was wrong at Robbins Camper Sales in Ormand Beach was a $1,000 discrepancy in a routine sale. After a yearlong investigation into the RV dealer's books, though, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office discovered quite a bit more missing, to the tune of $170,000.Police now say th ... More >>

Panamanian Woman Busted Smuggling Three Pounds of Cocaine In Breast Implants

Congratulations, cocaine smugglers. You've successfully moved the War on Drugs from island-hopping airplanes to Caribbean submarines to the most daring transportation method yet: Huge breast implants.A Panamanian woman flying out of Bogota, Colombia has been arrested in Spain after cops became suspi ... More >>

Michael Salzhauer Hosts "Hunt For Your Treasure Chest," A Breast-Themed Scav Hunt, This Weekend

Dr. Michael Salzhauer is an outlier in the already strange world of Miami plastic surgeons. He's as talented as his competitors, but "Dr. Schnoz" is famous for his wacky stunts like his notorious "Jewcan Sam" video, a plastic surgery patient fashion show, and offering free Botox to his Facebook foll ... More >>

Murder-Suicide in the Keys Unravels a Doctor's Decades-Long Mystery

How A Keys Murder-Suicide Exposed A Disappearing Doc Who Faked His Own Death

In May 2011, I wrote a short piece for Riptide about an 80-year-old Keys man who'd shot and killed his wife and his pet cat before ending his own life. I called it the "saddest story of the morning." Like most of Glen Tucker's neighbors and the local police, I assumed Tucker's crime was a typically ... More >>

Fix-A-Flat Butt Doc Oneal Morris Arrested for Manslaughter

Oneal Morris, the back-alley "doctor" who has been arrested several times on charges related to illegally injecting silicone concoctions cut with substances including cement and Fix-A-Flat, was arrested and charged with the manslaughter of Shatarka Nuby today. Nuby died in March due to complications ... More >>

Reader Mail: Dr. Schnoz Is a Gifted Surgeon

Michael Salzhauer, Miami's Wackiest Plastic Surgeon, Risks Everything for Internet Fame

Miami Mom Aiming to Crack List of World's Largest Breasts with Size MMM Implants

Double Ds? Honey, please. Local mother Lacey Wildd won't stop until she has size triple M breast implants. Yes, the already busty Miami-based mother of six hopes to crack the top five list of biggest breasts of the world by going under the knife for a thirteenth time. Her story was written up in Bri ... More >>

Feel the Pride

"Jewcan Sam" Plastic Surgeon Cancels Music Video Contest

​Fun is not really in the job description of being a doctor. Bal Harbour plastic surgeon Michael Salzhauer found that out the hard way after facing heat by commissioning a teen-targeting music video promoting nose jobs called "Jewcan Sam, a Nose Job Love song." Salzhauer even planned to have ... More >>

Miami Nose Job Doc in Trouble for Commissioning "Jewcan Sam" Music Video

​So, Dr. Michael Salzhauer, a Bal Harbor plastic surgeon, decided to commission a music video to promote his nose-job services to a young audience. Here is a comprehensive list of (almost) everything in the video that could be considered offensive: the song's name, "Jewcan Sam"; making light of te ... More >>

Florida Woman's Fake Boobs Save Her From Being Stabbed To Death

​Sure, most women can thanks their enhanced bust lines for landing a man, cutting the line at a club, or getting inundated with cat calls, but only one can claim that her boob job literally saved her life.An unidentified Florida woman was stabbed in through the chest, but her saline breast implant ... More >>

Americans Spent 24.4 Percent More on Butt Lifts Even as Economy Sagged

​Between 2009 and 2010 the American economy was slowly recovering from crises, but that didn't quell America's obsession with booty meat. Newsweek reports that in that time Americans were spending a lot on plastic surgery procedures, including 24.4 percent more on butt lifts even as we were cuttin ... More >>

Fix-a-Flat Cheeks? Alleged Victim of Fake Doc Oneal Morris Goes Public

via CBS4​Oneal Ron Morris, the amateur plastic surgeon who's alleged to have performed bizarre procedures on numerous patients, including injecting a mixture including fix-a-flat tire repair material in the behind of one victim, bonded out of jail yesterday on the same day that one of her alleged ... More >>

Free Boob Job Giveaway in Miami! One Lucky Lady's Gonna Get Fake Breasts at Mokai Tonight

via aventuracosmeticsurgery.comGet a big beautiful set of fake breasts for FREE!​Miami loves boob jobs. And honestly, if we here at Crossfade had our way, each and every Dade County resident -- men, women, and all those in between -- would own their own perfectly shaped pair of C-cup (or larger ... More >>

Deaths at Strax raise questions about the safety of cheap nips and tucks

Miriam Garmas, Stock Island Woman, Charged With Robbing Mom To Pay For Boob Job

via Monroe County Sheriff's OfficeMiriam Garmas​If you're going to rip off your own mom for ten grand, you may as well get your money's worth, right? So goes the tale of Miriam Garmas, a 34-year-old from Stock Island who police say committed the perfectly stereotypical South Florida crime by defra ... More >>

Hugo Chavez Rallies Against Boob Jobs

​Move over, America. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has found a new evil to target: boob jobs. He might actually have a point, for once. Venezuela has become one of the biggest markets in the world for breast augmentation, and the plastic surgery trend has become so severe that often women who ... More >>

Shatarka Nuby Gets 2 1/2 Years For Stealing ID to Get Boob Job and Lipo

via Broward County Sheriff's Office​Shatarka Nuby already had breast implants, but they weren't big enough. And her arms! They needed liposuction, stat! The only problem: Nuby didn't have $9,000 to pay for all that work.So that's when the 29-year-old lifted a college application out of a mailbox, ... More >>

The Miami Thong Lift: The Latest Craze in Plastic Surgery For Your Butt

via ButtsByMendieta.com​This city has done so much to advance the idea of altered, unnatural human beauty that it was about time Miami was honored with a namesake plastic surgery operation. Enter "the Miami Thong Lift." Pioneered by local plastic surgeon Constantino Mendieta, the new procedure was ... More >>

Shakira at American Airlines Arena September 27

Dead in the Water

Villains'r'Us

Americans Are Spending Less on Plastic Surgery

​Certain corners of the South Florida economy depend on a steady supply of new fake breasts, but spending on plastic surgery dropped 20 percent last year.America shelled out only $10.5 million on nips and tucks in 2009, down from $13.2 million in 2007. The number of actual surgeries ... More >>

Laugh Me a River

D-List Diva

Living the Life

Amputee Porn, Forced Implants, Urinals, S&M Sex Games: Police Release Ben Novack Report, and Boy Is It F'd Up

From the moment that Ben Novack Jr. was found bludgeoned to death in a Rye Brook, N.Y. hotel room on July 12th, it was evident that the Fontainebleau Hotel heir had some pretty dark stuff in his past.His wife, Narcy Novack, who found his body, was at the center of speculation. Whispers arose of a bi ... More >>

They Got That Boom Boom Pow

More Beauty for Your Buck

Cruise Ship Singer Laurie Miller From Expose Gets Free Plastic Surgery

Back in May Crossfade told you about Laurie Miller, original member of the superstar girl group Expose, who brought the world hits like "Point Of No Return."We also found her website which details her current life as a performer and talks about her experience in the cruise ship industry. If you ha ... More >>

Dr. Dread

A Miami plastic surgeon is accused of child molestation.

If Looks Could Kill

Back-alley plastic surgery sent Donnie Hendrix to jail. Finally, she talks.

Let's Get Jiggly

Plastic surgery clients parade a Bay Harbor Islands catwalk.

Silicone Celebration

Jacqueline CariniDr. Michael Salzhauer at his plastic surgery runway show at Bal Harbour Plastic Surgery Associates. Click here to view the full slideshow.It never fails: just as we finish explaining to our out-of-town friends that Miami's not really like that, we catch wind of something like this: ... More >>

Bail Out Your Aching Back

Beauty on the cheap for Spa Week!

The Water's Fine!

Or is it? With the budget ax hovering, we might never know.

The Party Crasher - The Celebs Hit The Town Saturday

A Tranny's Remorse

Michael Berke did everything but remove his member. Now he's unsure about the change.

A Nose for French Fashion

These Could Be Yours

No surprise when it comes to breasts, Miami is best

Denying the Day's Demise

Who wouldn’t want to give the hound a shot in the mouth?

BEST PLACE TO MEET SINGLE WOMEN

Einstein Bros. Bagels

BEST VIP ROOM

Rumi

BEST MIAMI HERALD WRITER

Fred Grimm

Oh Boy!

Darden Asbury Pyron

Skin Deep

Don't like your face? Your breasts? Your tummy? Get yourself new ones. Plastic surgeon Ernest DiGeronimo makes the kindest cuts.

Scar Tissue

Critics question Ernest DiGeronimo's credentials and advertising practices

All the Ooze That's Fit to Print

The venerated Weekly World News burns Miami's press with a local model's plastic-surgery meltdown