Now 12 women allege mistreatment by the doctor who they say talked on his cellphone during surgeries, suggested wrapping themselves in yoga mats for treatment and kept them waiting three days in the waiting room.
Shahine has been charged with 29 counts of negligence, fraud and incompetence.
One patient even ended up on the reality TV show ‘Botched’ to correct the tummy tuck turned liposuction butt injections by Dr. Shahine that left her deformed.
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Connie Zuniga, 29, told the ‘Botched’ plastic surgeons in an episode that Shahine suggested removing the fat during her liposuction and pumping it all into her butt because throwing it away would be a ‘hassle’.
Doctors Terry Dubrow and Paul Nassif said he must have done that to save money as throwing away fat is expensive.
Zuniga added that the doctor then directed her to swaddle herself in a yoga mat with a book placed on each side of her rear end.
‘This is the most preposterous story in regards to medical treatment and surgery that I ever heard of in my entire life,’ Nassif said in the episode.
The surgery involves removing fat from other areas of the body and injecting it into a person’s rear end
Another 45-year-old woman said in 2014 she waited three days at Shahine’s office because she had already paid $5,500 and was told she couldn’t get a refund.
She added that she decided to go through with the procedure after seeing singer K. Michelle come into the office for a consultation.
‘You figure that somebody famous is coming in, you’re going to automatically assume that he’s a great doctor,’ the patient said.
She called the results ‘horrible’.
Shahine is also the doctor behind Mob Wives star Renee Graziano’s massive butt boost. He has worked on singer Tameka ‘Tiny’ Harris and Nya Lee of VH1’s ‘ Love & Hip Hop: New York,’ according to his web site.
Shahine performed the surgery on Graziano without any anesthesia
Shahine started as an OB-GYN in Brooklyn, but thanks to a loophole in New York state law he was able to open the NY Beauty Surgeon office in Manhattan. The law allows for any doctor to perform cosmetic procedures, even without an anesthesiologist or a nurse.
In one case, Shahine allegedly performed liposuction on a 34-year-old woman without first checking blood-test results that showed she was pregnant, according to the New York Post.
She had a ‘Brazilian butt lift’, a technique of Shahine’s own invention. He removed fat from her abdomen, back, and inner thighs and injected it into her rear end, but allegedly ‘falsely documented’ the amount of fat removed.
New York State law limits how much fat can be removed at locations other than a hospital.
Lisa Pressman, a woman from Manhattan, claims she spent five weeks in intensive care due to septic shock after a butt lift gone wrong in 2014, according to a 2015 malpractice complaint which has been settled.
Pressman alleges Shahine did not use gloves, a mask or a gown during the surgery and was on his cell phone during the procedure.
Mob Wives star Renee Graziano’s butt lift was performed without any anesthesia, according to a video clip of the procedure.
‘A little discomfort but nothing to write home about. It’s good,’ Graziano is seen telling Shahine during the surgery.
‘I wanted more ass so I went to Dr. Shahine,’ she said during a 2014 interview.
If the board can substantiate the 29 charges, Shahine’s license will be suspended or revoked.
