About Deborah Jeane Palfrey
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 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, and money laundering. 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. After her release, she founded Pamela Martin and Associates. In May 2007 a team at ABC News reported on their efforts to determine the identities of Palfrey's clients from her phone records.
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