Overview

• Jurors found Adame guilty of second-degree murder, practicing medicine without a certification, and a great-bodily-injury enhancement in Cindyana Santangelo’s death.
• The actress died of a silicone embolism after a March 24 injection at her Malibu home, authorities said.
• Judge Sam Ohta ordered Adame held without bail ahead of sentencing, where the enhancement could add three to six years beyond the murder minimum.
• Prosecutors underscored her 2024 involuntary manslaughter conviction in a 2019 fatal injection and a prior judicial warning that a new death could bring a murder charge.
• The defense maintains she did not inject Santangelo and plans an appeal, while the victim’s husband has filed a wrongful-death suit and testified about her rapid decline.