Woman who tried to seduce her dermatologist does regional impersonations

An elderly millionairess terrorised a celebrity dermatologist who had treated her eyebrows and asked him: ‘Did you sleep well without me?’, a court heard.

Patricia Bailey, 71, is accused of harassing cosmetic expert Dr Phillippe Hamada-Pisal between October 2019 and February 2020.

The founder of PHP Aesthetics gave evidence behind a screen for the property developer’s trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

Bailey sat in the dock wearing a black fur-lined suede coat, cream fur scarf and leopard-print rimmed face-mask, holding a leather bag with tassels.

The doctor said after he treated her with CryoLED therapy, she followed him home and turned up at his Harley Street practice unannounced.

‘I met Ms Bailey following a phone call in July 2019 after an article was released in the Daily Mail,’ said Dr Hamada-Pisal.

‘She wanted to have more information about this treatment.

‘When Ms Bailey calls you it’s a monologue.

‘The treatment was an eye cream penetrating the skin to reduce the eyebrows.

‘It is a beauty treatment, not a medical treatment.’

The doctor said ‘it could have been done by a beautician but she wanted it to be done by me.’

‘She agreed to have the appointment in August.’

The doctor said the consultation ‘went great’ and on his advice she agreed to book three sessions with a three to four week gap between each.

‘The first treatment in early August went really well. She was really pleased and she saw results straight away and booked a second treatment for the end of August.

‘The second treatment went really well, she was happy.’

But her third treatment was postponed on the day because Dr Hamada-Pisel was running late and Bailey needed to catch a train to Liverpool, the court heard.

In the following days Bailey complained of ‘some effect on the eyes, running eyes’ and a ‘drooping lower face’ and wanted to find out if it was a result of Dr Hamada-Pisal’s work.

He told her it was unlikely but cancelled the third appointment and offered her a free alternative on the basis she modelled for students who had flown in from Jordan to learn from him.

‘She had no finance to pay for it so I mentioned to her if she wanted to be part of the model scheme,’ he said.

‘On Tuesday 15 October she had free treatment worth £800. She was very happy and gave me a flyer about the mystic things that she’s doing.

‘We had one model per hour so I put the flyer on the side, but she left very happy thanked everyone.

The court heard she ‘made comments about religion, race and sexual orientation’ during the appointment.

The doctor said in the following days he received several messages from Bailey.

‘She said that she was over the moon, that she never met someone like me, that I was great,’ the doctor said

‘I don’t want to go through the exact messages because when I read them it was a bit too much. But she was very happy.

Then on November 3 she sent me a message saying: ‘Did you sleep well without me?’

Another message on the same day read: ‘Darling Phillippe I don’t remember anyone being as kind of me, you are so special and unique.’

The doctor said: ‘I thought now that was too much and I had to put my foot down and say this situation is going too far and I think she’s got the wrong understanding.

‘It was a flirt, she was flirting and she definitely thought I could have an affair.

‘I responded that due to the nature of the messages I will not be able to see her as a patient anymore then it turned 360 degrees following my response.

‘She suddenly had a lot of issues about the treatment.’

Bailey left a series of voice messages between 4 – 9 November, after he told her he could no longer treat her, the court heard.

‘She said I destroyed her face, I destroyed her life, she can’t see herself in the mirror, that I am responsible and she wants me to sort out this error.

‘Following this long message I responded saying if she had any issue she was welcome to send me pictures so I could assess it.

‘This wasn’t acknowledged and she never responded to this request. She carried on with her monologue insulting me verbally saying I destroyed her face.

‘She never responded to my request to book another appointment.

‘She sent a lot of voice messages mocking my French accent.

‘I said if she’s concerned please book an appointment with a colleague of mine because I don’t want to see her on my own.

‘I was doing training on a weekend and I received a phone call from Ms Bailey that I’m going to destroy the face of a Saudi Arabian woman and they are going to jump under the bus after the treatment.

‘I said how does she know I’m having a training on this weekend but obviously she was checking everything.’

On 25 November she turned up at the clinic without an appointment when the doctor was in Paris.

Then she went to his apartment on 5 February 2020 last year.

The doctor said: ‘I never gave her my address. If she know my address it’s because she followed me. She followed me. End of story.’

‘I felt very uncomfortable, it was very frightening because for me as a medic there is something wrong with this behaviour. Someone following you home is not right.

‘If you follow someone home do you have something else in mind?

‘I was changing my route home, I’m a grown man but this affected me a lot.

‘I didn’t take any appointment after six as it was dark quickly.

I changed my journey from home to work, I was taking the outside exit not the main entrance because I checked the path of Ms Bailey and realised it wasn’t the first time.’

Bailey’s defence lawyer Daniel Cavagileri said: ‘Prior to 3 – 4 November all contact was entirely neutral and reciprocated both ways.

‘Then after that date all contact was only seeking legal redress or resolution of a complaint she made about treatment.’

Mr Cavagileri accused the doctor of flirting back with his client, telling him ‘you said you would help and inspire her to write her fourth book.’

Bailey, of Adlam Road, Liverpool, denies harassment.

Bailey was found guilty of harassment and was described as being ‘fixated’ with the doctor.

District Judge Alexander Jacobs said he had read the transcript of the ‘long and rambling’ telephone call made on 25 October ‘in which the complainant barely responds.’

‘It is mostly you explaining various matters about your past and present. You finally get to the point after totally irrelevant conversations about friendship.

‘You raised that some of the text messages had been fabricated and denied sending them.

‘All the complainant sent to you, you accept. But some attributed to you, you deny ever having written or sent.

‘The fact you haven’t raised that before today is totally undermining as a witness.

‘The complainant treated you kindly and patiently.

‘It was politeness and no more than that. Genuine interest and conversation.

I pause to consider whether he should have seen it coming. Should he have terminated contact with you sooner than he did?’

The judge then read some of her messages.

‘Philippe I cannot remember a man being so kind to me, the generosity and compassion you have given me, I’m so sorry for doubting you.

‘Philippe you are so special and unique to me and my life.

‘I want to be absolutely sure about how I truly feel about you.

‘Darling Philippe I’m coming down to see you tonight.

‘My darling I sensed that you have three children.

‘I miss you I will speak to you soon darling.

‘How are you Philippe did you sleep good without me.’

The judge said he rejected her argument ‘that those are just words you use as vocabulary and have no ulterior motive whatsoever’ and were ‘clearly more than grateful thanks’.

He added: ‘After the messages were amorous, they were threatening.

‘They were long, one-sided and rambling about various matters.

‘I find you guilty of this charge.’

Mr Cavaglieri told the court his client had ‘considerable debt’, to which the judge replied that might be due to her spending ‘thousands appealing her ASBO against neighbours’ from a 2004 incident.

Turning to her, the judge continued: ’You became fixated with this man and you blurred the lines of reasonableness in how to deal with him.

He said she ‘started off over-friendly and amorous’ and ended up ‘campaigning against him, threatening him’ which was ’not the way to deal with it.’

‘He had to change his routine, his route to work and exiting from work, the door he used and the fear and worry of you contacting him.’

Bailey, of Adlam Road, Liverpool, denied but was found guilty after a trial of harassment without violence.

She was sentenced to a four-month community order and will have to abide by a curfew of 8pm to 7am.

Bailey was also ordered to pay £770 in costs, a victim surcharge of £90.

She was also made subject to a restraining order banning her from attending Harley Street or contacting the doctor for the next four years.

Bailey agreed to pay £50 a week after telling the judge: ‘Your honour I just want to say I am in £50,000 worth of debt.’

 

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