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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request from a lawyer who once represented a woman known as the “DC Madam” to release records from her famous escort service.
Sibley wanted the Supreme Court to lift a lower court order, in place since 2007, that bars him from releasing any information about her records.
In response to a subpoena, Verizon Wireless provided Sibley with a CD containing 817 account holders’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and home and business telephone numbers.
In response to a subpoena, Verizon Wireless provided Sibley with a CD containing 817 account holders’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and home and business telephone numbers.
Palfrey was born in the Pittsburgh area town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, but spent her teens in Orlando, Florida. Her father was a grocer. She graduated from Rollins College with a degree in criminal justice, and completed a nine-month legal course at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
In June 2004, the United States Postal Inspection Service and Internal Revenue Service began an investigation into an illegal prostitution business being run in Washington, D.C. During the course of the investigation, Palfrey was identified as the operator of the prostitution ring.
On May 1, 2008, Palfrey was found hanging in a storage shed outside her mother's mobile home in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Police found handwritten suicide notes in the bedroom where she was staying, dated a week before her death. The autopsy and the final police investigation concluded her death was a suicide.
On July 9, 2007, Palfrey released the supposed entirety of her phone records for public viewing and downloading on the Internet in TIFF format, though days prior to this, her civil attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley had dispatched 54 CD-ROM copies to researchers, activists, and journalists.
Shephard, Alicia. " DC Madam Tells (Not Quite) All ", Washingtonian, May 22, 2007.
Court records indicate that law enforcement officials began investigating Palfrey’s business in 2004. In October 2006, the United States Postal Service Inspection Service froze her bank accounts, and law enforcement officials searched her properties and seized documents relating to prostitution charges and money laundering.
Prior to her conviction, Palfrey and her attorney released four months of the organization’s phone records to ABC News. The released records outed solicitation clients like pentagon advisor Harlan Ullman, Secretary of State deputy Randall Tobias, and Senator David Vitter.
Recently, Palfrey’s former attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, has brought the DC Madam’s prostitution ring back in the news. Sibley, who has been called an “eccentric litigator,” recently filed a motion in U.S. District Court in DC requesting the lifting of the 2007 restraining order.