A top Chelsea plastic surgeon famous for ‘making supermodels more beautiful’ sent a patient a photo of her naked on the operating table and then asked her to return in thigh-high boots and lingerie for role-play sex.
The patient was still recovering from surgery less than 24 hours earlier when she received a graphic photo that showed her breasts, covered in blood and the surgeon’s marker pen while she was unconscious.
The photo of the woman was taken by disgraced plastic surgeon Olivier Branford, who was struck off last month for starting relationships with three vulnerable patients, sending them explicit messages and then having sex with them.
Branford, a married father-of-three, sent her the photo with the message: ‘You are perfect all over. I had a peek at your tummy when you were asleep. I so want to kiss your tummy. I didn’t take the liberty to look lower I can assure you. Though I wanted to!’
The victim, who wished to stay anonymous, told The Times that he was a ‘monster’, adding: ‘Still to this day I don’t know if something happened to me while I was under.’
Olivier Branford (pictured), 49, sent a patient a photo of her naked on the operating table and then demanded she return in thigh-high boots and lingerie for role-play sex
French-born Branford, 50, was hailed by Tatler magazine as a ‘fresh-faced and unassumingly suave… visionary’ while another website described him as ‘the man making supermodels more naturally beautiful’.
But behind the closed doors of the Cadogan Clinic in Chelsea, west London, victims have come forward to describe what he was really like for the first time. Branford tried to reassure his patient after sending her the naked photo – and later asked for more pictures of her breasts.
‘I treat a lot of models but you have an elegance and beauty that sets you aside,’ he told her. ‘I am so happy that I have given you breasts that match your beautiful body. I am so excited to see more photos x.’
The female patient was still in considerable pain when she returned to the Chelsea clinic, which treats around 20,000 patients a year, for her first nurse-led appointment the next week.
She was then invited back at 6pm the same day after Branford had arranged for a fake appointment to be created in the booking system.
Branford sent her a photo she had previously posted of her wearing thigh-high boots and requested she wore them with black lingerie. He also told her to have a drink before coming despite it being clinically inadvisable.
‘Please do have a cognac,’ he said. ‘Will be sexy to smell it on your breath.’
The patient described how she was left shaken up by the surgeon’s demands. ‘He wanted to role play, that-doctor-patient fantasy thing,’ she explained.
French-born Branford admitted 14 of 18 charges against him when he appeared at a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) misconduct hearing in November, last year
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She was told she had to call him Dr Branford instead of Ollie and he had a bottle of lubricant next to the examination table.
The patient said that the sex they had was painful and that her stitches had not even dissolved yet. She claims it was a ‘massive abuse of power’ because she was on a lot of drugs following surgery.
She claims that the surgeon then offered her free Botox and filler – something she believes was done to keep her quiet. Branford ‘entirely refutes’ claims he offered free treatment in return for their silence, his lawyers said.
The patient says she was left ‘drinking heavily and self-harming’ by what happened and asked her solicitors to make a formal complaint to the clinic. They then referred Branford to the General Medical Council.
Surgeons are allowed to take photos in a clinical setting but must have written consent, which the woman says she did not give.
The Cadogan Clinic referred Branford to the General Medical Council (pictured) in light of the allegations
Although an independent review from the clinic found no violation of its photography policies, a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) found Branford had abused his professional position by pursuing sexual relationships with three patients, including the aforementioned.
It found he showered the women with compliments after they came to him for breast surgery, before sleeping with them at his private clinic.
He also sent messages which included naked photos of himself and shared details of his sexual fantasies.
He had sex with one woman at the Cadogan Clinic after telling her she was ‘beautiful’ and that he ‘loved her body’.
Cambridge-educated Branford had sex with another woman – behind her husband’s back – after saying she had the ‘perfect breasts of a 20-year-old’ and he wanted to ‘oil them up’. This was despite the fact she had sent a picture of her breasts with bandages on them as she was concerned about how swollen they were.
He had sex in ‘multiple positions’ with a third patient while she was still recovering from breast surgery, despite it not being clinically advisable.
Branford admitted 14 of 18 charges against him when he appeared at a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) misconduct hearing in November last year.
Two of the remaining four charges were later found to be proven.
In June, the tribunal found Branford’s fitness to practise had been impaired and it decided to erase him from the medical register.
MailOnline has contacted Branford’s lawyers and the Cadogan Clinic for comment.
