DC Madam

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "DC Madam" who was convicted in April of charges related to her famous prostitution ring, died today in an apparent suicide at her mother's house in Florida. She was 52. Palfrey was busted in October of 2006, and it wasn't long before she captured national attention by...  

The woman accused of running a high-end prostitution ring in the nation's capital says she prefers the title Washington Madam to D.C. Madam. She says it's classier. Deborah Jeane Palfrey addressed a crowd at Nathans in Georgetown Wednesday.  

A judge ordered Friday that crime scene photographs taken by police during the suicide investigation of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, also known as the D.C. Madam, are public - to an extent.  

"I am not going back to prison. I will commit suicide first." Deborah Jeane Palfrey made that vow last year, a friend told the Associated Press. Today she reportedly took her own life, just two weeks after a guilty verdict on charges of running a prostitution ring. But in August Palfrey...  

FOR 12 years, Deborah Jeane Palfrey kept a record of every phone number dialled by her business. She claims that Pamela Martin & Associates was a "high-end adult fantasy firm which offered legal sexual and erotic services" to wealthy Washington DC ...  

Senator David Vitter will not be able to use campaign funds to pay most of the legal expenses he incurred as a result of his involvement in the DC Madam scandal, the Federal Election Commission has ruled.  

After Deborah Palfrey's suicide, one sex-worker advocate blogged a message of sympathy, saying "I know who you're determined to haunt." But eight weeks later, she received an email telling her that the D.C. Madam's ghost was talking back! "I rather suspect this letter could come as a...  

Whoops! Spitzer ain't the only john to be caught up in a prostitution ring... but a classy one. We provide a very brief, very incomplete history of so-called high-class organizations offering the services of paid girls. The most recent prostitution scandal starred Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so...  

MAY 1--Deborah Palfrey, the so-called D.C. Madam who today committed suicide at her mother's Florida home, once told a California judge that she "seriously considered" killing herself following her arrest in a felony pimping case in the early-1990s ...  

The "D.C. Madam" took a prostitution rap, then took her own life. But her alleged johns walked away uncensured and unscathed.  

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., should be denied permission to use campaign money to pay more than $160,000 in legal fees related to his involvement with a Washington escort service, according to an advisory opinion ...  

Lawyers for the Federal Election Commission do not believe that Sen. David Vitter should be allowed to use campaign funds to cover all the legal costs he incurred while trying to avoid testifying in the Deborah ...  

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., just received some bad news from the Federal Election Commission. The regulators ruled in a draft opinion that he can't use campaign funds to pay more than $160,000 in legal expenses associated with the so-called D.C....  

U.S. Sen. David Vitter is listed as a potential witness for the defense in the "D.C. Madam" trial, which began Monday.  

Geraldo Rivera, Alex Jones, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Judge Jeanine Pirro all agree that something stinks about the death of high end prostitution ringer Madame Palfrey. Palfrey was planning to testify and "expose high levels of the government". Officials extending from high areas in the state...