So called "D.C. Madame" found dead
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Published Thu May 01, 2008, 04:12 PM MDT
Updated Thu May 01, 2008, 04:13 PM MDT
Police have confirmed that a woman convicted of running a high-end prostitution ring in Washington has committed suicide in a Florida Gulf Coast town.
Tarpon Springs police say the body of 52-year-old Deborah Jeane Palfrey was found hanged in a shed near her mother's manufactured home this morning. She left a suicide note but police did not disclose its contents. Police say Palfrey's mother found the body.
Palfrey was convicted April 15 by a federal jury of running a prostitution service that catered to members of Washington's political elite, including Senator David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican.
She had denied her escort service engaged in prostitution, saying that if any of the women engaged in sex acts for money, they did so without her knowledge.
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