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May 1, 2007

'D.C. Madam' Releases First Phone Records

2007_0501_phone.JPGIn Deborah Jeane Palfrey's continuing campaign to get the media to stop focusing on the titillating details of her escort business and instead investigate the myriad injustices being brought upon her by the government, she's decided to release a page from her 46 lbs. of phone records. In an announcement today Palfrey, aka Miz Julia, aka Pamela Martin, said she's decided to sell records from her 13-year-long run providing "legal" sexual services to the men of Washington D.C. in order to raise money for her legal defense.

Last month she turned over a list of over 10,000 clients to ABC News, which will air a report about the case on Friday. As a sample of what classy buyers of Palfrey's list can expect, she's posted a page of phone records from 1996 on her web site. Despite our previous excitement about an inside-the-Beltway sex scandal, we can't help but feel a little icky when hundreds of men are unceremoniously outed for something they did 11 years ago. We decided not post numbers from the list and urge you not to start calling them for amusement. It's one thing to disclose names of public officials who engage in illegal activities, but we've got mixed feelings about Palfrey's increasingly desperate moves.

Don't worry, we'll continue to cover this story, and haven't deleted the Friday appointment with 20/20 from the calendar.

Photo by Flickr user easement.


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And most of them are from... VIRGINIA!!! Hahahahaha

 
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