Defendant Padge-Victoria Windslowe says she performed thousands of the procedures despite a lack of formal medical training.
The 45-year-old Windslowe describes herself as a former madam and hip-hop performer.
Authorities say she fled after a botched injection killed the dancer in 2011.
Two other women have testified that they became seriously ill after the low-grade silicone spread to their lungs.
Windslowe says women paid thousands of dollars for her work and called her "the Michelangelo of buttocks injections."
There have been several similar deaths around the country.
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