DC Madame "Suicided".

[stephendare]

This is extremely sad.

If she really did commit suicide, I hope that people are happy with what they put her, and not the assholes who broke the laws by hiring the girls, through.

Not that anyone should ever have been prosecuted for this.  We will all get old and hideous in time.

If she didnt commit suicide, this is the cruelest murder of all.  I always liked her.

Its a shame.

UPDATE: Fox News has confirmed from Tarpon Springs Police in Florida that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the woman known as the "DC Madam," has committed suicide.

Contrary to the TIME report, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the DC Madam who reportedly committed suicide today, apparently warned that she would be "suicided" â€" murdered but made to look like a suicide â€" both as far back as 1991 and more recently. Prison Planet's Paul Joseph Watson reports that the DC Madam feared for her life:

    "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.

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ORIGINAL POST:Fox 5 Orlando is reporting that a woman found dead in her home is Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "DC Madam." Authorities are reporting that her death may be a suicide:

    Police were called to the home of DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey's mother on Thursday to investigate her apparent suicide.


    Police have confirmed that the dead person is Palfrey who was 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.

The AP reports that the DC Madam suicide apparently took place at her mother's home and that she left a suicide note:

    Police in Tarpon Springs, Florida say the body was found in a shed near Palfrey's mother's home Thursday morning. There was a suicide note, but police did not disclose its contents.

Although local reports confirm it was Palfrey but refer to her death as an "apparent suicide," and the AP reports the death as a suicide but call the deceased "a woman believed to be" the DC Mada, FoxNews.com is reporting that local officials confirm both Palfrey's identity and her cause of death:

    "It was her, and she's deceased," said Frank Ruggiero, a public information officer with the Tarpon Springs Police Department. "There's no question that it was a suicide."


Palfrey was found guilty of running a prostitution ring last month. TMZ also reports on the DC Madam suicide, confirming that she was awaiting sentencing.

In June 2007, one of Palfrey's former escorts, University of Maryland professor Brandy Britton, committed suicide after being arrested. At the time, Palfrey said of Britton:

    "This is a woman who was divorced, who was trying to raise two, ah, high-school children, college-age children," Palfrey said. "Great job title, the great position, all the respect in the world, but she wasn't making enough money. So she decided to do a little moonlighting."


    Palfrey added, "And she was publicly outed, is a good way to put it, she was absolutely humiliated. Ah, she couldn't take the humiliation. Her whole life was destroyed. And she, she just, ah, ultimately committed suicide."

Developing...

[KenFSU]

"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." - San Francisco Chronicle, April 2008

Just weeks ago, she again reiterated in a radio interview that she had zero intention of killing herself, but rather would fight this thing till the very end. Here is a clip from the interview where she discusses the case, Dick Cheney's possible involvement in the call girl ring, and states at least twice that she has no plans whatsoever to committ suicide:

http://prisonplanet.com/audio/010508palfrey.mp3

If that doesn't send a chill down your spine, I don't know what will.

I've been watching and reading the news on this one pretty closely. Man, if one case proves beyond a shadow of a doubt how controlled and absolutely tainted mainstream American media has become, it has to be this one. I mean, you have this woman who claims to have 46 pounds of documents detailing relations between her call girls and top Washington officials. She's also claimed many, many times, in the San Francisco Chronicle and just weeks ago on the radio, that if anything happens to her it's murder.

Yet today, she turns up hung in her home yesterday, in the EXACT same manner as one of her callgirls that was reportedly going to name names last year before deciding to also "kill herself" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012900654.html), and you don't see ONE, not even ONE major media outlet questioning whether she might have been murdered.

Literally not even ONE.

If ever there was overwhelming motivation for a person to be killed, and if ever there was a bullseye painted on someone's back, THIS IS IT.

I mean, there are literally hundreds of powerful lawmakers and lobbyists in Washington who this woman has dirt on, and the ENTIRE media world and police department are ready to dismiss it as suicide in ten minutes.

[Driven1]

this is big news

[Charleston native]

It is suspicious, no doubt.

[RiversideGator]

Remind me not to work for a call girl ring in DC.   

[RiversideGator]

Remind me not to work for a call girl ring in DC.   

River

I'd hire you.

I dont think there is enough money in the world.   

[RiversideGator]

I have a hard time considering either the hookers, the madam or the johns as victims here.  They are all complicit in criminal activity and should all be punished.  Vitter should be cashiered too IMO.

And, if any real evidence comes as to murder, then this will get interesting.  Right now, we just have speculation.  Someone who frequently ruminated on her own death may have also been thinking about ending it all in an act of retribution.  Who knows?

[Downtown Dweller]

Remind me not to work for a call girl ring in DC.   

River

I'd hire you.

I dont think there is enough money in the world.   

I'd hire you if you were covered with solar panels 

[KenFSU]

http://www.wesh.com/news/16142638/detail.html

Building Manager: DC Madam's Death Not Suicide

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The building manager of a Central Florida condo said he spent time talking to Deborah Jean Palfrey on Monday as she packed to go to her mother's house and she did not seem suicidal.

Deborah Jean Palfrey has many ties to Central Florida. For the past 12 years she's owned a condo at Park Lake Towers in Orlando.

The building manager, who did not want to show his face, talked with Palfrey Monday before she left for her mother's in Tarpon Springs. He strongly believes Palfrey's death was not a suicide.

"Jean Palfrey was a class act. She wore very good clothes. She was well educated. Her way out of this world certainly would not have been in an aluminum shed attached to a mobile home in Tarpon Springs, Florida," he said.

Palfrey was convicted of running a high-profile escort service for Washington's elite and faced a sentencing this summer that would likely lead to many years in prison. But she was found hanged Thursday at her mother's home and investigators said they have no doubt it was a suicide.

"A couple handwritten notes. At least one note was found inside residence indicating her intent to take her life," Capt. Jeffrey Young of the Tarpon Springs Police Department said of Palfrey's death.

Palfrey’s building manager said she often told him she believed she was being followed and he thinks there may have been some former clients of her escort service who wanted her dead.

"She insinuated that there is a contract out for her and I fully believe they succeeded," her building manager said.

Palfrey's Lexus is still parked in the Park Lake garage and the staff said on Monday, she asked about making sure her condo fees would continue to be paid during what Palfrey anticipated would be six years in prison.

They said she left that day with some suitcases and a box.

"She had one white paper file box that she told me had some important paper with her and then she just kind of raised her eyebrows like you're supposed to think oh yeah, that's all the information that she had on her business in Washington," her building manager said.

Palfrey never denied running an escort service for 13 years, but she did deny any knowledge that any illegal sexual activity was occurring.