Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American madam (died 2008)

Deborah Jeane Palfrey

American escort agency operator (1956–2008)

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, dubbed the D. C. Madam by the news media, operated Pamela Martin and Associates, an escort agency in Washington, D.C. Although she maintained that the company's services were legal, she was convicted on April 15, 2008, of racketeering, using the mail for…