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Deborah Jeane Palfrey

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Prostitute

The Resume

    (March 18, 1956-May 1, 2008)
    Born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania
    Nicknames were the 'D.C. Madam' and 'Miz Julia'
    Former owner of Pamela Martin and Associates, a Washington, D.C. prostitution ring (1993-2006)
    Appeared on ABC's '20/20' to state she had 10,000 to 15,000 clientele phone numbers (May 4, 2007)
    Bank accounts worth over $500,000 frozen by U.S. Postal Inspection agents (October 2006)
    Convicted on multiple counts of racketeering and money laundering (April 15, 2008)
    Found hanging in her mother's storage shed in Tarpon Springs, Florida, of an apparent suicide at age 52 (May 1, 2008)

Why she might be annoying:

    A former boyfriend took out a restraining order against her in 1989.
    After a prostitution arrest in 1990, she fled to Montana but was captured, brought back to California and spent 18 months in jail.
    She ran her D.C. ring from her California home.
    After going through 46 pounds of phone records, '20/20' deemed her clients were not 'newsworthy' enough to pursue the story.
    She claims she got out of the call girl business because her girls 'were a pain in the ass to deal with.'
    She fueled conspiracy theorists by stating, 'Rape, beating, maiming, disfigurement and more than likely murder disguised in the form of just another jailhouse accident or suicide would await me' before her 1991 conviction.
    When a former employee suicided before her trial she stated, 'I guess I'm made of something that Brandy Britton wasn't made of.'
    After her 2008 conviction, she reiterated that if she were found dead it would be murder, not suicide.
    Police claim suicide notes were found written by her after her body was discovered.

Why she might not be annoying:

    After spending time with an escort service, she was shocked at the drug abuse within and wanted to start her own service that prohibited drug use.
    She had potential employees agree to provide free sex to their first customer to weed out any potential undercover cops.
    She said the girls nicknamed one client, U.S. Senator David Vitter, 'Vitter the Shitter' for his fondness of diapers.
    She described herself as a 'spiritual, teetotaling cat person.'
    She vowed before her sentencing that she wouldn't spend any more time in prison and kept true to her word.

Credit: Scar Tactics


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 35 Votes: 45.71% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 7 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 37 Votes: 51.35% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 25 Votes: 64.00% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 22 Votes: 72.73% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 17 Votes: 76.47% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 30 Votes: 63.33% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 70 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 173 Votes: 70.52% Annoying