Florida Plastic Surgeon The man accused in his wife’s death intentionally let her die after injecting her with excessive painkillers during cosmetic surgery, the victim’s enraged father told Fox News Digital.
Marty Ellington reports that Hilary Brown, 33, told friends she planned to leave Georgetown-educated Dr. Ben Brown, 41, because their marriage of a year and a half was falling apart.
“Everyone should know what kind of character this man is,” the father said. “He’s really polite and humble. He acts like he’s a victim, but he’s not. He’s really Charles Manson.”
Gulf Breeze The doctor surrendered himself on Monday after a judge signed an arrest warrant charging him with involuntary manslaughter — a second-degree felony that carries a life sentence if convicted. He was released on bail.
Dr. Ben Brown is accused of killing his wife, Hilary Brown, by injecting her with an overdose of lidocaine during cosmetic surgery. (Facebook)
Investigators found the surgeon did not call 911 for nearly 20 minutes, even after the victim’s body began shaking, his vision blurred and he suffered a seizure on the operating table.
Hilary Brown, who had three children from a previous marriage, was eventually rushed to the hospital on November 21, 2023, where she went into a coma and He died a week later.
A medical examiner concluded that the victim died of “complications resulting from lidocaine toxicity.”
Ellington said he believed Brown saw an opportunity to end his wife’s life amid their increasingly acrimonious relationship and did so.
“I don’t think it was premeditated,” Ellington told Fox News Digital. “But I will believe to the end of my life that he saw an opportunity. Because when it got to that point (lidocaine toxicity), he knew he could do it, you know, he knew how many minutes to delay and what the outcome would be.”
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Florida surgeon Ben Brown is accused of murdering his wife Hilary Brown after performing several cosmetic procedures on her. (courtesy of Marty Ellington)
Brown’s employees told investigators that Brown resisted their requests to call 911 while his wife lay writhing in agony on the table.
An employee who left the now-closed practice after the disturbing incident told police that Brown often gave his wife higher doses of medication than were recommended for her weight. Pre-processHe struggled to wake her up, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Brown’s attorney declined to comment. “It is my policy not to discuss pending cases in the media,” attorney Barry Berosset told Fox News Digital.
Ellington, who lives in Houston, alleged the surgeon’s once-thriving business has been pushed to the brink of bankruptcy by multiple civil suits and complaints from patients about shoddy workmanship.
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Florida surgeon Ben Brown is accused of killing his wife, Hilary Brown, after a series of surgeries. (Instagram/Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office)
Ellington said his daughter was planning to leave him after Christmas.
The grieving father had long harbored suspicions about his son-in-law, and was disturbed by how much Brown had altered his daughter’s appearance by constantly tampering with her cosmetics.
One of his friends said that the doctors were trying to make his face look like Megan Fox.
“Whatever she had done made her look even worse than her natural beauty,” he said, adding that the couple first met when she visited his office for a breast reduction.
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Dr. Ben Brown, who is accused of murdering his wife, Hilary Brown, allegedly posted an ad on Facebook Marketplace to sell his wife’s ski boots. (Facebook)
Ellington said Brown was strangely calm and didn’t shed a tear during his wife’s week-long coma.
The father stopped taking Brown’s calls soon after his daughter’s death, and was devastated when a friend told him the doctor was selling her ski boots. Facebook Marketplace.
The doctor wrote that he was unloading because his wife no longer skis.
“I hope his life is as miserable every day as he made ours,” Ellington said. “And my grandchildren and my extended family, you know, and all the other patients know that he was so arrogant and egotistical that he didn’t take safety precautions into consideration.”
Marty Ellington holds his daughter Hilary Brown, who was an infant. Ellington held Brown’s hand in the hospital when she went into a coma and later died. (courtesy of Marty Ellington)
The Florida Department of Health found that Brown was negligent.
The agency found that, “The level of disregard that Dr. Brown showed for patient safety, even when the patient was his wife, indicates that Dr. Brown is unwilling or unable to provide an appropriate level of care to his future patients.”
Brown, who Georgetown University’s After graduating from the Department of Plastic Surgery in 2015, he received a license to practice in several states including Florida, Virginia, Washington, and Washington DC.
Dr. Mark Siegel, a clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, said Brown never should have operated on his wife or any of his relatives.
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Hilary Brown, who died after having cosmetic surgery performed on her by her plastic surgeon husband, poses with her children. (Facebook )
“Whether it’s illegal or not, it’s unethical and wrong for any doctor to perform surgery on a family member,” he told Fox News Digital.
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He also tore it up Surgeon’s refusal As his wife lay in agony on the operation table, he immediately called 911.
“It’s shocking that they would withhold emergency response by not calling 911 immediately, especially during a seizure,” he said. “If someone has a seizure, you call 911. This is an extremely disturbing, clear departure from the standard of care.”
Ashley Papa and Julia Bonavita contributed to this report.
