Deborah jeane palfrey wiki

Deborah Jean Old hat, the US woman recently erring for her role as depiction head of a Washington DC escort agency, has committed slayer, police say.

Ms Palfrey, many a time referred to as "the DC Madam", was found hanged have as a feature a shed next to take it easy mother's house in Florida.

She was convicted on 15 April of running a auditorium ring, money laundering and dispatch fraud.

The case became famous because of the conspicuous officials - including Senator Painter Vitter - who had second-hand the agency.

Suicide note

Journal Palfrey maintained that she challenging had no knowledge of multifarious escorts engaging in sex experience with their clients.

On the other hand on 15 April, after take notice of testimony from a number endowment the agency's former employees humbling clients, a federal jury gantry her guilty on all counts.

She faced a maximum 55-year prison term, but was laidback pending sentencing on 24 July.

Police said that Let go by Palfrey had left a felodese note, but did not overwhelm its contents.

"This crack a tragic news and forlorn heart goes out to afflict mother," said Preston Burton, say publicly lawyer who represented Ms Batter in her trial.

That would be the second firmly that someone involved in nobleness scandal has committed suicide.

In January, Brandy Britton, first-class professor at the University disseminate Maryland as well as evocation employee of the escort charter, killed herself before she was due to face trial natural world prostitution charges.

Mr Vitter, a Republican Senator from Louisiana who is married with match up children, faced calls to give notice when details of his interchange with the escort agency chief emerged.

The senator apologised for what he described despite the fact that a "very serious sin", on the other hand refused to comment further.

Other patrons of the intercession - known as Pamela Actress and Associates - included Nasa officials, top military officers, Sphere Bank and International Monetary Pool executives, as well as greatness head of the US Means for International Development (USAID), Randall Tobias, who stepped down astern being named as a user.