Cynthia Payne

Books
Paul Bailey; Cynthia Payne (1982) An English Madam: Life and Work of Cynthia Payne Jonathan Cape ISBN 0-224-02037-4 
Cynthia Payne; Terence Blacker (1987) Cynthia Payne's Book of Home Entertainment Penguin ISBN 0-14-010618-9 
Gloria Walker (1987) Sexplicitly Yours: Trial of Cynthia Payne Penguin Books Ltd ISBN 0-14-010543-3 . Both were written (and Wish You Were Here was directed) by David Leland. Cynthia Payne (born 24 December 1932 in Bognor Regis West Sussex) is a retired English party hostess who made the headlines in the 1970s and 1980s when Cynthia Payne was acquitted of being a madam and running a brothel at 32 Ambleside Avenue in Streatham in the south-west of London England.

The court case ended her career as a party giver. On this programme Cynthia Payne expressed an interest in becoming an MP in order to change Britain's sex laws which Cynthia Payne followed through by standing for Parliament as a candidate for the Payne and Pleasure Party in the Kensington by-election in July 1988 followed by her standing in her own area of Streatham in the 1992 UK General Election. She served four months in Holloway prison.