The last reported sighting of Ms Payne was of her leaving Winston Avenue as she made her way back from her boyfriend's family home.

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The last reported sighting of Miss Payne was of her leaving Winston Avenue as she made her way back from her boyfriend's family home.

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The hotel was the setting for 1998's "How Stella Got Her Groove Back, " starring Angela Bassett as workaholic divorcee Stella Payne, Taye Diggs as much-younger love interest Winston Shakespeare and Whoopi Goldberg as sidekick Delilah Abraham.

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