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• (January 12, 2023, 01:18:11 AM)

[ydnamtnediserp]

i have to admit.. for some completely crazy, unknown reason, i've been fascinated with this story since the beginning, so i was a bit shocked and saddened when i read this:


By MITCH STACY, Associated Press Writer 52 minutes ago

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - A woman convicted two 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.
The body of Deborah Jeane Palfrey was found in a shed near her mother's home about 20 miles northwest of Tampa. Police said the 52-year-old Palfrey left at least two suicide notes and other writings to her family in a notebook, but they did not disclose their contents.

Palfrey apparently hanged herself with nylon rope from the shed's ceiling. Her mother discovered the body.

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

Blanche Palfrey had no sign that her daughter was suicidal, and there was no immediate indication that alcohol or drugs were involved, police Capt. Jeffrey Young said.

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

"This is tragic news and my heart goes out to her mother," said attorney Preston Burton, who represented Deborah Jeane 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 about five or six years in prison. She was free while she awaited sentencing on July 24.

"I'm sure as heck not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone four to eight years, 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."

Dan Moldea, a Washington writer who befriended Palfrey while considering writing a book about her, said she was cautiously optimistic about her trial, even when the case went before the jury.

After the conviction, Moldea sent her an e-mail but didn't hear back. A week later, he said, he sent another note entitled "A Concerned Friend" asking whether she was OK. Again, he didn't hear back.

After hearing of her death, he recalled a conversation over dinner last year when the subject of prison came up.

"She said, 'I am not going back to prison. I will commit suicide first,'" Moldea said.

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."

[Wunderkind]

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."

I guess she was wrong about herself.

I am of the opinion that you shouldn't do it, if you can't take the consequences, and if you didn't think about the consequences then Darwin's law should take effect.

While I don't feel sorry for the woman, it is interesting that the story went the way it did. Some might even call it suspicious, but then, she did say she wasn't going to prison. She didn't exactly mention Mexico, Canada, or France either.

[12AX7]

I thought she was a pretty, fairly well-motivated entrepreneur. I thought it was (is) total bullshit that her clients are the people in the positions they are in; but throw her to the dogs. It's sad that she's gone; and yes- a bit suspicious I think. She already said she would kill herself rather than go to prison; so a hit made to look like a suicide would probably go undetected. Who was on her client list, I wonder?

[Wunderkind]

Question:

Who was on her client list, I wonder?

Answer:

...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...

Suspicious, indeed.

[12AX7]

Oh, yeh, I knew it was a bunch of bigwigs. Just wonder who had the most to lose by being exposed... 
 Of course; if it was a hit; they kinda missed the point. The client list has already been entered as evidence. Killing her wouldn't solve that, so...   maybe it IS an actual suicide.

[MISTER MASSACRE]

If people would just admit that they love prostitutes, then no one would have died here.

Come on everyone:

I...love...prostitutes. Say it with feeling!
 
I LOVE PROSTITUTES! AGAIN!

I LOVE PROSTITUTES!

[BizB]

Palfrey apparently hanged herself with nylon rope from the shed's ceiling. Her mother discovered the body.

Yes, but... to what did she attach the rope?  I mean, it's interesting that they gave details on the whereabouts of the rope before she hanged herself, but wouldn't it be good to include something about the attachment point, too?

[12AX7]

Yeh, and who did it.

[Joe Sixpack]

On NPR yesterday they said it was attached to a metal beam in the shed.

[ydnamtnediserp]

what a way to go.   

[Chris]

Others share the same idea that her death was not suicide.

[Wunderkind]

Others share the same idea that her death was not suicide.

... Some might even call it suspicious...

I predicted it. Quick! Somebody give me their palm, while I'm still hot!

People will always suspect foul play when someone commits suicide, especially if D.C. is involved. I'm usually a critic of those types, or at the very least, a skeptic, but after reading more on it, this kind of does smell like fish. "They" (assuming it is "them") are going to be clawing the bottom of the barrel to scrape up excuses for why she did it.

I mean, we all say we'd rather die than do something, make a speech, dance with clowns, etc. But most mentally stable people don't actually mean to kill themselves before they make a speech. And from what I've read (so far), she was a pretty stable person.

[ydnamtnediserp]

i must be the only one who didn't suspect foul play when i initially read that..

..you bunch of conspiracy theorists.

[Wunderkind]

I resemble that remark.