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DC Madam Turns Up Dead

by BooMan
Thu May 1st, 2008 at 01:58:29 PM EST

CNN is reporting that the DC Madam has apparently committed suicide. (Here's the Associated Press). I'm not suggesting she didn't, but didn't pretty much everyone predict at some point that her life was in danger? I wonder if she or her loved ones were threatened or she just became depressed with the likely outcome of her sentencing. She was found in a small storage shed with a suicide note.

Update [2008-5-1 14:22:11 by BooMan]: More info.



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too early to tell but my first thought is that suicide is always convenient for things like this.

Just like with Enron (who was the guy that killed himself in his car) - it does sound fishy right off the bat....

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by clammyc (clam227atyahoo) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 02:24:42 PM EST
RE :suicide is always convenient for things like this.

Yea that and plane crashes .

Fullerg

by fullerg on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 05:05:42 PM EST
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As I see it, Dan Moldea has long been a shill for the government, so I find this both predictable and likely untrue:

Writers Dan Moldea, who interviewed Palfrey several times for a possible book about her experiences, said today that Palfrey told him three times that she would kill herself rather than return to prison. She had served an 18-month term in California in the early 1990s for running a prostitution service and told Moldea that it was "just a horrible, horrible period for her," the writer said.

"The first time she did time, it damn near killed her, she told me," Moldea said. "She wound up in a fairly tough prison, and the stress caused some sort of an illness, and it was a very debilitating illness that affected her eyesight."

Moldea said that, in three interviews last spring and summer, after she was indicted, Palfrey told him: "I'm not going back to jail. I'll kill myself first. I'll commit suicide before I go back to jail."

"Those were her exact words," he said.

Dan Moldea wrote perhaps the most dishonest book on the RFK assassination to date. I figured he owed someone in the government something. I think he's still paying them back....

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by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 05:14:11 PM EST
Lisa...

I was going to write you about Moldea...I remembered that you know his act.

I would be curious to know exactly when the earliest date might be that he publicly stated this suicide thing.

Muddying the waters.

Classic.

Did her black book commit suicide too?

And the bullshit continues. Will they NEVER get busted?

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 06:31:52 PM EST
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very sad news
by AliceDem on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 02:05:21 PM EST
"suicide".

right. that's certainly conveeeenient.  And Benazir Bhutto died when she bonked her head on the suv roof.  
(he said as he put on his tin-foil hat).

That woman was tough as nails from what I've read, and had already served time.

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by brendan on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 02:17:09 PM EST
From what I've read, it was the fact that she had already done time that pressed her into avoiding going back.
by sjct on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 03:16:47 PM EST
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or resistant about going back to the Big House, then I'll believe it, but all bets are off right now.

Supposedly, Larry Flynt has her black books, but I think the government has them under lock and key now.

Vittycent (Sen. David Vitter) doesn't have to mess his pants up any more thinking about how much she could spill about his and other's propensities in court and otherwise.  However, I wonder about how many other powerful johns--like Darth Cheney for instance, as alleged--are also breathing a sigh of relief or a wheeze of triumph.

It's too bad that this woman had to take the fall, but ladies of the night like Eliot Spitzer's Girls Gone Wild hooker get more notorious by the week.


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by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 05:23:09 PM EST
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So a pimp takes her life. I do feel bad. I feel bad because she was a human being. I feel bad for her family. But ya know what?
Rather than post on this kind of "draamatic news" that I'm sure the cable stooges will use as another misdirect, how about at least some comments re Lurita Doans resignation? Since she has resigned, does that mean that she is no longer capable of being charged with criminal violations of the Hatch Act? Does she go the way of the rest of the god damned crooks that have walked?
Nah- let's focus on the pimp!
by billjpa (billjpa@aol.com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 02:44:37 PM EST
Palfrey was a madam.  She was the she-pimp*.  

*It's a Deuce Bigelow thing.

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by fabooj (fabooj [at} mail [dot} com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 03:29:32 PM EST
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Chilling, to say the least.  Who commits suicide in a small storage shed?  Does that not just scream our for investigation?  I wonder who's in charge of this one, I'd google names and start checking backgrounds for evidence of a whitewash if I had a clue how criminal investigations worked in real life.

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by hz on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 03:07:46 PM EST
When I was in college, a man in my neighborhood commtted suicide in the crawl space under his house.  He was 'missing' for a whilie (I think about a week) and there was a police search.  Then his son found him when investigating a smell.  It was investigated and they decided it really was suicide.

People who commit suicide aren't always rational about how or where they do it.

by maryb2004 on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 03:41:00 PM EST
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Don't forget Brandy Britton, a professor who was also ac accused along with Palfrey, suicided last Feb.

One of Palfery's 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.

Ironically, after finding out that Britton had killed herself, 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."

Veddy interesting.  I don't doubt for a moment these women were killed.  Naturally, I don't have proof, but we've all seen that movie, right?

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by fabooj (fabooj [at} mail [dot} com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 03:26:37 PM EST
Who kills themselves in a storage shed?
by JayGR on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 03:32:16 PM EST
People who do not want to mess up the living room.

Duh.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 04:03:29 PM EST
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Silly me!
by JayGR on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 08:55:52 PM EST
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