The madam, her girls and a city in fear

[EV_Ares]

As the woman who ran a Washington call-girl ring fights prosecution, her lethal weapon is the names of 10,000 clients, reports Paul Harris - Sunday May 13, 2007

(Comment: Notice the sad part of one of the girls who was a university professor, hounded by the American media/press where her life is destroyed, she commits sucide; yet, our press and courts is concerned about the privacy of the clients.)

The Observer


Deborah Jeane Palfrey first knew something was wrong on a trip to Germany. She suddenly found her bank card was not working any more. Then, back in her hotel room, a journalist from a gossip website called her. He had been leaked a court document detailing Palfrey's alleged sex empire in Washington DC, serving the rich and powerful with a ring of beautiful, university-educated call girls. Her assets had been seized by the government. As Palfrey struggled to understand what was happening, the journalist wanted to know if she was ashamed of herself.

The 'DC Madam' scandal had just been born. It is a story that has gripped Washington's usually staid political classes. Palfrey stands accused of running a prostitution ring for more than 13 years. It is a charge she denies, maintaining her girls dealt out only massages and erotic role-play. She made them all sign agreements not to engage in illegal behaviour. Palfrey has vowed to identify the men who used her services to prove her story, and she has years of phone records to help her. All across the Washington area there are now thousands of nervous, powerful - often married - men.

But the DC Madam story is much more than a titillating guessing game. The scale of her operation exposed a dark underside of Washington life. Often decried as a dull government town, it has shown how sex and prostitution are key to how Washington works. From Nasa to the Pentagon to the State Department, officials of all levels were using Palfrey's girls. The saga has also revealed a deep hypocrisy, showing how powerful men talk publicly of their 'family values' and then have escorts visit them in hotel rooms. As Rob Capriccioso, editor of Big Head DC, a Washington news and gossip website, says: 'Tawdry sex is everywhere in Washington.'

(entire article @ link below:)

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2078409,00.html

[acmavm]

1. These are the buffoons who want to legislate morality for the

rest of us.

What a joke.

[KoKo]

2. From Article: She's turned over another part of her list to team of investigative writers!

Palfrey has been selling interviews on eBay. She has also handed over a whole new section of her list to a group of Washington investigative writers and there is the coming court case in which she will be defended by Preston Burton, the lawyer who once represented Monica Lewinsky. That seems fitting. 'She's decided to fight this until the end,' says Mirabel.

The story of the DC Madam may have only just begun.

[nolabels]

4. She says that she only gave up 20% of the johns names...........

to the corporate frauds known as ABC. There probably is a good chance that some of the johns are unaware that this actually was the madam of their own call girls. And where is the FBI and the rest of Gonzo's derelict justice department? The potential for so much of this as it relates to national security and political blackmail is enormous. Sure is funny how the only people who can remember anything are the ladies of the night :shrug:

The story of someone turning this madam in because one of the girls was a undisclosed call girl and hired by someone else to get in tight with that person posing as a girlfriend should help understanding what is really going on.

[Craftsman]

3. This woman bettter hire a food taster and get a remote car starter