Passing of a Madam

Because the media and Washington can't get enough of a good sex scandal, the chatter has been focused on the passing of the D.C. Madam who rather dramatically kept her promise that she'd rather kill herself than go to jail. Deborah Jeane Palfrey was convicted of money laundering, racketeering and mail fraud on April 15 and was expected to be sentenced on July 24. Apparently she left notes about her intentions. And, it seems, she told her would be coauthor, Dan Moldea. Palfrey's escort service, which she was running out of her California residence, had a number of high level clients. One of her employees was a former professor at the University of Maryland who committed suicide before going to trial on prostitution charges. Palfrey was found dead by her 76 year old mother in the storage shed behind her mother's Florida trailer. She was 52.