MARCH 29 Citing "irreconcilable personal and professional differences" between herself and her court appointed public defender, former Washington, D.C.
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 52-year-old Palfrey, whose body was found hanging in a shed near her mother Blanche s Tarpon Springs home, was convicted last month of racketeering and money laundering in connection with her operation of an escort service that catered to Washington insiders, including Republican Senator David Vitter.
Palfrey s federal collar came 16 years after she took her first pimping conviction in San Diego Superior Court. Before her sentencing in that case, Palfrey filed a court memorandum claiming that she had thoughts of suicide and experienced Vietnam-like flashbacks as a result of persecution at the hands of San Diego police. Suicide, she noted, was a viable option. An excerpt from Palfrey s June 1992 court filing can be found here, w
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