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returntothepit >> discuss >> Police: 'D.C. madam' kills herself in Fla. coastal town by W3 nli on May 1,2008 4:36pm
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toggletoggle post by W3 nli at May 1,2008 4:36pm
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - A woman convicted just weeks ago of being the "D.C. madam" hanged herself Thursday, apparently making good on her vow never to go to prison for running a high-end Washington prostitution ring.
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The body of Deborah Jeane Palfrey was found in a shed near her mother's manufactured home about 20 miles northwest of Tampa. Police said the 52-year-old left a suicide note, but they did not disclose its contents. The mother found Palfrey, who had apparently hanged herself with nylon rope from the shed's ceiling.

Officers were outside the mother's white and pink home in the community of mostly retirees.

A man who answered a phone listed for Palfrey's mother declined to comment.

"This is a tragic news and my heart goes out to her mother," said attorney Preston Burton, who represented Palfrey in her trial.

A federal jury convicted Palfrey on April 15 of running a prostitution service that catered to members of Washington's political elite, including Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican. She was convicted of money laundering, using the mail for illegal purposes and racketeering.

Palfrey had denied her escort service engaged in prostitution, saying that if any of the women engaged in sex acts for money, they did so without her knowledge.

The trial concluded without revealing many new details about the service or its clients. Vitter was among possible witnesses but did not take the stand.

Channing Phillips, the spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in the District of Columbia, said that under sentencing guidelines, Palfrey faced 57 to 71 months in prison. She was free pending her sentencing July 24.

"I am sure as heck am not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone, you know, four to eight years here, because I'm shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever," Palfrey told ABC last year when she released phone records that revealed some of her clients. "Not for a second. I'll bring every last one of them in if necessary."

Prosecutors said Palfrey operated the prostitution service for 13 years.

Vitter, a first-term senator who is married and has four children, has acknowledged being involved with Palfrey's escort service and has apologized for what he called a "very serious sin." But he avoided commenting further.

Besides Vitter, the trial also concluded without the testimony of military strategist Harlan Ullman or Randall Tobias, a former senior State Department official. Both men had been named among possible witnesses.

One of the escort service employees was former University of Maryland, Baltimore County, professor Brandy Britton, who was arrested on prostitution charges in 2006. She committed suicide in January before she was scheduled to go to trial.

Palfrey said last year that she, too, was humiliated by her prostitution charges, but said: "I guess I'm made of something that Brandy Britton wasn't made of."



toggletoggle post by W3 nli at May 1,2008 4:38pm
DC Madam Predicted She Would Be Suicided
"Rape, beating, maiming, disfigurement and more than likely murder disguised in the form of just another jailhouse accident or suicide would await me," Palfrey wrote - Time Magazine curiously quick to re-affirm suicide story

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, May 1, 2008


DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey predicted she would be "suicided" on several occasions both recently and as far back as 17 years ago - comments that now appear ominous in light of the announcement that the former head of a Washington escort service allegedly killed herself today.

"If taken into custody, my physical safety and most probably my very life would be jeopardized," she wrote in August 1991 following an attempt to bring her to trial, "Rape, beating, maiming, disfigurement and more than likely murder disguised in the form of just another jailhouse accident or suicide would await me," said Palfrey in a handwritten letter to the judge accusing the San Diego police vice squad of having a vendetta against her.

During several recent appearances on The Alex Jones Show, Palfrey also said that she was at risk of being killed and that authorities would make it look like suicide. She made it clear that she was not suicidal and if she was found dead it would be murder.

Palfrey had threatened to release the names of well-known clients of her upscale call girl ring in the nation's capitol, and had indicated that Dick Cheney may be one of them.

"No I'm not planning to commit suicide," Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show on her last appearance, "I'm planning on going into court and defending myself vigorously and exposing the government," she said.

UPDATE: In an almost uncanny development, as soon as this article started to go viral on the Internet, Time Magazine released a story claiming that Palfrey told author Dan Moldea that she would rather commit suicide than go to jail. What a funny coincidence!

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1736687,00.html

http://www.infowars.com/media/230707palfrey.mp3



toggletoggle post by FuckIsMySignature at May 1,2008 5:42pm
hah i thought it said Tampon Springs



toggletoggle post by thuringwethil at May 1,2008 6:00pm
this bummed me out when I read it

oil companies are getting away with EVERYTHING, and yet this shit happens.

like George Carlin said,
"Selling is legal,
fucking is legal!
WHY ISN'T SELLING FUCKING LEGAL?!?"



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at May 1,2008 6:22pm
wwjd?



toggletoggle post by thuringwethil at May 1,2008 7:23pm
Jesus would suck a black dick



toggletoggle post by W3 nli at May 1,2008 7:43pm
thuringwethil said[orig][quote]
Jesus would suck a black dick


well i mean thats not a far stretch i mean jesus is black, unless youre talking about white jesus.

who is so false jesus



toggletoggle post by goatcatalyst   at May 1,2008 8:25pm
thuringwethil said[orig][quote]
Jesus would suck a black dick


marry me



toggletoggle post by Conservationist  at May 1,2008 11:40pm
thuringwethil said[orig][quote]
Jesus would suck a black dick


Hot!



toggletoggle post by thuringwethil at May 2,2008 1:14am
was this the same madam whose escort banged Eliot Spitzer?



toggletoggle post by jesus  at May 2,2008 1:20am
um no i wouldnt



toggletoggle post by W3 nli at May 2,2008 2:04am
thuringwethil said[orig][quote]
was this the same madam whose escort banged Eliot Spitzer?


yup



toggletoggle post by SkinSandwich at May 2,2008 10:14am
I mean, just look at that neck. it has HANG ME written all over it.




toggletoggle post by mikeofdecrepitude at May 2,2008 11:16am
Dead men (and women) tell no tales.



toggletoggle post by thuringwethil at May 2,2008 11:18am
she looks like Anais Nin, who would not have approved of this verdict

her hair's making Yoda ears - I hate when that happens



toggletoggle post by SkinSandwich at May 2,2008 11:21am
thuringwethil said[orig][quote]
she looks like Anais Nin, who would not have approved of this verdict

her hair's making Yoda ears - I hate when that happens



Looks more like semen collateral damage.



toggletoggle post by thuringwethil at May 2,2008 11:25am
SkinSandwich said[orig][quote]
thuringwethil said[orig][quote]
she looks like Anais Nin, who would not have approved of this verdict

her hair's making Yoda ears - I hate when that happens



Looks more like semen collateral damage.


LOL, "is that hair gel?"



toggletoggle post by largefreakatzero at May 2,2008 12:00pm
Hmmm. Doesn't Powerkok now reside in Florida? Didn't he just post recently after a long hiatus? I see a correlation and demand answers.



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