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Deborah Jeane Palfrey
American escort agency operator (1956–2008)
Deborah Jeane Palfrey (March 18, 1956 – May 1, 2008),[1] dubbed the D. C. Madam by the news media, operated Pamela Martin and Associates, an escort agency in Washington, D.C. Although she maintained that the company's services were legal, she was convicted on April 15, 2008, of racketeering, using the mail for illegal purposes,[1][2] and money laundering.[2] Slightly over two weeks later, facing a prison sentence of five or six years, she was found hanged. Autopsy results and the final police investigative report concluded that her death was a suicide.[1][3][4][5]
Early life
[edit]Palfrey was born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, on March 18, 1956. She spent her teens in Orlando, Florida. Her father was a grocer. She graduated from Rollins College with a degree in criminal justice, and completed a nine-month legal course at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law.[6]
Career
[edit]Working as a paralegal in San Diego, she became involved in the escort business. Dismayed at how most services were run, including widespread drug abuse, she started her own company, recruiting mostly women over
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Deborah Jeane Palfrey Washington DC prostituion service phone records
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Searchable PDF of Deborah Jeane Palfrey (died May, 2008) Washington DC escort service phone records. The raw image documents (not searchable) were released in 2007 and an on-line (unreleased) database of the material was constructed by four University of Brandeis students. However, since the suicide of "Madame" Palfrey following a court conviction, her website has been changed to read (11 May 2008) "deborahjeanepalfrey.com is off line until further notice." and the Brandeis site "We are saddened to learn of Ms. Palfrey's death and hope that her friends and family can find comfort at a difficult time
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