MyFox Tampa Bay

TARPON SPRINGS – Police were called to the home of DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s mother on Thursday to investigate an apparent suicide. Police have confirmed that the dead person is Palfrey, 52. Palfrey was dubbed “The DC Madam” by the national media after her arrest for allegedly running an upscale call girl ring in the nation’s capitol.

She was convicted on Tuesday of money laundering and using the mail for illegal purposes and racketeering, but she had not yet been sentenced. There has been much speculation in the media about who was on Palfrey’s client list, but few details came out during the trial. She had appeared on ABC’s 20/20 and said that her service — Pamela Martin and Associates — had a client list that included some 10 to 15 thousand names.

Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, was linked to the service, and while Randall L. Tobias resigned as a deputy secretary of state after acknowledging to ABC News that he used Palfrey’s service for massages, no other big names emerged. Police say Palfrey’s body was in a small storage shed on the west side of her mother’s mobile phome. There were handwritten notes at the scene indicating that Palfrey intended to take her own life, and no foul play is susected. 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.
Last year, Palfrey said she, too, was humiliated by her prostitution charges, but said: “I guess I’m made of something that Brandy Britton wasn’t made of.”

You will have to excuse me for being a bit suspicious. She predicted in 1991 she would be “suicided”.

Update FYI: The information about her being “suicided” on Wikipedia has been removed since I posted this story this morning. In fact, much of the Wikipedia entry has been revised.

Conviction reported earlier on DU..




  1. GremlinClr says:

    Suicide my ass. I’m sure the local police will fall all over themselves to solve this one. Shit like this pisses me off.

  2. gquaglia says:

    Suicide, my ass!

  3. gquaglia says:

    #1 you beat me to my comment.

  4. JimD says:

    The Repukes “Vince Foster” – on the “Morals” Front anyway – she knew where the bodies were burried !!! Had to be silenced !!! Wonder where her “Black Book” is now !!!

  5. gquaglia says:

    Wonder where her “Black Book” is now !!!

    You would have a better chance of finding out the fate of the Rosswell Aliens!

  6. Miguel says:

    A very convenient suicide. And #5, you are most likely right!

  7. Improbus says:

    “no foul play is suspected”

    They really expect people with an IQ above 80 to swallow this? Please.

  8. Mister Mustard says:

    Suicide my ass!!

  9. MotaMan says:

    I Bet some of you guys would still do her.

  10. Calin says:

    I love the way #4 automatically blames the Republicans. Because Democrats never visit prostitutes.

    Either way, normally I avoid tin-foil hat ideas. But even I’m suspicious on the timing of this thing.

  11. Raff says:

    #10

    Yeah really, besides everyone knows that republicans like boys and bathrooms sex… Its gotta be the democrats.

  12. Joe says:

    Yeah, remember JFK’s suicide in Dallas?

  13. The Warden says:

    Death by Dildo?

  14. zorkor says:

    land of the free and the right to freedom of speech. yeah right!

  15. OhForTheLoveOf says:

    #7 – They really expect people with an IQ above 80 to swallow this?

    Yes.

    I expect the sub-80 crowd (like 9/11 truthers, etc) to imagine an elaborate conspiracy.

  16. Boo Radley says:

    #15. Um…Why would it have to be an “elaborate conspiracy”?

  17. t0llyb0ng says:

    Wicked woman did some bad things.

    Wicked woman went away.

    End of story.

  18. bobbo says:

    Someone predicting “being suicided” can just as easily be projecting their own paranoia and resulting depression leading to “real” suicide.

    If the DC Power structure wanted to warn Madames not to make their contacts public wouldn’t a public execution be the more effective message sent?

    I don’t know about “the black book” but didn’t she make all her phone records public? The black book of sorts?

    Wouldn’t any DC Power Structure want her suicided BEFORE a complete trial on the issue?

    Rave on sub 80 IQ’ers.

  19. Jägermeister says:

    Department of Homeland Security reports that this is not an act of terrorism.

  20. Madam McNormal says:

    First, it’s pretty rare for any “madam” to be playing with a full deck. Next, anyone who believes that she was telling the truth about what “would happen to her” saying that “she would not commit suicide someone would murder her” might be missing the bottom line of this whole thing, she’s a crook, a liar, a thief, and drama queen. She lied her whole life. She was very good at it. She finally got caught. Ego could not handle it. Ego said something to her about either going to jail, or killing herself to make the world suspect the cops are the bad guys since she ‘predicted’ it and/or she just might have gotten so depressed about going to jail, there was no point in living. Sorry conspiracy theorists.

  21. eyeofthetiger says:

    Like a vigra induced red tie affair set up by dead drops, light signals and cut-outs with oneway mirror glass on limousines. All of the stiff dicks on her client list; which, includes all of her and underlings associates phone records would be a suspect. After all wouldn’t such a topic be rendered a pasture for national security???

  22. Li says:

    Suicided.

    And my IQ is so high that I’m smart enough not to enumerate it.

  23. bobbo says:

    #22–Li==What factors lead you to that conclusion?

  24. billabong says:

    Gee we only have 15 thousand suspects.I think Cheny did it.

  25. OhForTheLoveOf says:

    #16 – #15. Um…Why would it have to be an “elaborate conspiracy”?

    I don’t know… but it always is.

  26. Said says:

    Did you ever think she just didn’t want to go to jail?

    Have you also considered this possibility? http://tinyurl.com/57ygxj

  27. jlm says:

    no need to investigate…not like any influential people had any reason to kill her so it must have been suicide. nice.

  28. OhForTheLoveOf says:

    #22 – 🙂

    #23 – Probably Occam’s Razor.

    Say… You don’t imagine there might be some cleverly ironic reason Li chose to use the “word” suicided… do you?

  29. Bob says:

    It amazes me that anyone would believe that she would be “Suicided” after all potential harm such an action could prevent had been done. If you actually believe that, do the human race a favor and take yourself and any progeny you may have and dive into the nearest convenient method of instant death. The gene pool will not miss you.

  30. Jack Acid says:

    Let’s do a little role playing:

    Influential person #1 who wants to kill her: “This chick can really screw us. We should take her out.”

    Influential person #2: “But she predicted we’d do that. We’ll never get away with it.”

    Influential person #1: “I’ve got it! We’ll wait until *after* she makes her phone records public and goes to trial, thereby doing maximum potential damage to us before we make our move.”

    Influential person #2: “Sheer genius. We’ll get rid of her after she’d done all the damage to us that she can possibly do.

    Ifluential person #1: “Consider it done.”

    Just a reminder — The X-files is *fiction*. Agent Scully and Agent Mulder don’t really exist. There is no massive cover-up of an impending alien invasion. There is no magic carburator that has been suppressed by the oil industry which can get 200 miles per gallon of gas. Sometimes people commit suicide even after claiming they would never do such a thing when faced with the reality of the alternative.


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