The Washington Post is reporting that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, better known as the D.C.  madam  who was convicted last month of running a high-end prostitution service in Washington, hanged herself in her shed outside her mother’s mobile home in Florida.

FROM WASHINGTON POST:

Authorities were called to the Sun Valley Estates Mobile Home Park in Tarpon Springs, Fla., by 76-year-old Blanche Palfrey, who found her daughter’s body hanging by a nylon rope shortly before 11 a.m., Tarpon Springs police Capt. Jeffrey P. Young said at a news conference. He said Deborah Palfrey left at least two suicide notes, but he declined to discuss their contents.

Blanche Palfrey awoke from a nap and began to search for her daughter, according to the police account. She went outside and noticed that a tricycle normally kept in the shed beside the mobile home had been moved. She went inside and discovered her daughter hanging by a nylon rope from a metal beam on the ceiling of the shed.

Palfrey was free on bond while awaiting her June 25 sentence on federal racketeering charges. She was bagged for running a call-girl ring that was fronted as “a high-end erotic fantasy service.” Her criminal defense was that she was oblivious for 13 years her employees were getting it popping for loot.

Very sad story…imagine being the mother walking into the shed.  Suicide hits very close to home with me and brings back awful memories.  I know the pain must have been deep.