(KRON) — A jury convicted a cosmetologist of killing a Kim Kardashian look-alike model who died after receiving botched butt injections in Burlingame.
Jurors found 53-year-old Vivian Alexandra Gomez guilty of felony involuntary manslaughter, practicing medicine without a license, and inflicting great bodily injury, for the death of OnlyFans model Christina Ashten Gourkani, prosecutors said.
The unlicensed cosmetologist had remained out of custody leading up to, and during, her 15-day trial. Following the jury’s guilty verdict Monday, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Leland Davis immediately ordered Gomez to report to jail.
Gourkani was 34 years old and lived in San Jose at the time of her sudden death. The model, who emulated Kardashian for her OnlyFans page and half a million Instagram followers, relied on aesthetic procedures to look more like the famous reality television star, prosecutors said.
On April 19, 2023, Gourkani met with Gomez inside a hotel room at San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront. According to prosecutors, the model had hired the cosmetologist to perform an “illegal gluteal silicone injection” to enlarge her buttocks, also known as body contouring.
After Gomez injected the silicone, the victim quickly became ill and her fiancé called 911. The model died the following day at Mills Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame from respiratory failure and a pulmonary embolism, prosecutors said…