Clearly, the District is tired of being referred to as “Hollywood for Ugly People.” Instead, we’d like to be called “Hollywood for Ugly People Who Also Pay for Sex.” The Washington Times has the latest on a bomb of salacious gossip that may be about to go off in our fair city. For some background, The Smoking Gun first talked about the case back in October. It’s hard to know whether to be worried or terribly, terribly excited.

Federal prosecutors want to keep a California woman accused of running a prostitution business in the District from identifying her former clients.

Deborah J. Palfrey, who was indicted last week on racketeering and other felony charges, has announced plans to sell off more than a decade’s worth of customer phone records so she can hire an attorney.

Palfrey has allegedly been running this prostitution business, Pamela Martin & Associates, from her home in California since 1993, running ads in the Washington City Paper for “escorts” (we know, who could have guessed those ads are actually for hookers) and introducing lonely D.C. men to one of the 132 women she’s had in her employ. Last week she was indicted on racketeering and other felony charges, coming after months of legal battles over a civil forfeiture case in which authorities seized approximately $500,000 in stocks, bank accounts and gold coins. As part of the seizure, liens have also been placed on two of her California properties because the houses were purchased with illegal proceeds from the prostitution business.

So in an attempt to get her money and property back, Palfrey is playing the only card she has left — the phone records and list of all her johns, which theoretically includes powerful Washington politicians and lobbyists. The Politico learned about her intentions to sell the list on March 1, and now prosecutors are seeking to prevent her from doing so. Heidi Fleiss would be so proud.

Begin speculating who’s on the list in 5, 4, 3 …