DC MADAM KILLS HERSELF

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - A woman police believe to be convicted Washington escort service operator Deborah Jeane Palfrey committed suicide, officials said Thursday. A body police believe to be that of Deborah Jeane Palfrey was found in a shed near her mother’s home Thursday morning in Tarpon Springs, about 20 miles northwest of Tampa. There was a suicide note, but police did not disclose its contents or how she killed herself.

“This is a tragic news and my heart goes out to her mother,” defense attorney Preston Burton said.Montgomery Blair Sibley, who served for a time as Palfrey’s civil attorney, said he was shocked. “I’m personally devastated by this. All I can do is mourn the tragic loss of her life,” he said.

A man who answered a phone listed for Palfrey’s mother declined to comment. Officers were outside the mother’s white and pink home in the community of mostly retirees.

Palfrey was convicted April 15 by a federal jury of running a prostitution service that catered to members of Washington’s political elite, including Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican.
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