I remember during the Spitzer-Gate she was opining that the amounts in question in her case were so much smaller that the publicity regarding the amounts in the Spitzer case would tend to support her contention that she didn’t dispatch her girls for sex. I felt a pang when I saw what charges she’d been convicted of (the email one in particular seemed a bit like piling on), but didn’t really care enough to read the story in detail. I mean, it came over the transom and I threw it back.
So, I am sorry now. Not that it does any good.
If she really didn’t want to go to prison that bad, she should have run instead. I wonder if that occurred to her.
If she really didn’t want to go to prison that bad, she should have run instead.
Or she could have not been a madame in the first place.
Sucks whenever someone is desperate enough to take their life.
I would suggest maybe very powerful people can bring a lot of pressure to bear.
Sucks whenever someone is desperate enough to take their life.
I think I’m cruel, then. It’s one thing if someone is depressed or finds themselves in a situation they didn’t expect to be in. But years of doing something you know to be an illegal activity- indeed, something you’ve already spent some time in prison for- shouldn’t leave you so surprised that you’re desperate. She made a choice to flout the law, she made a choice to kill herself. I’ve little sympathy for her, but feel sad for what she’s now done to her mother.
Or she could have not been a madame in the first place.
Clearly the best of the choices, but absent a time machine…
Maybee – I am not exactly the most compassionate of creatures… but I think it is impossible for people to kill themselves unless they are truly not right in the head. So, I think all who suicide are suffering at a depth I have only glimpsed maybe once or twice.
Enoch,
What you said about powerful people bringing pressure reminds me of Pentageli’s situation in The Godfather II. Maybe someone convinced her “it was the right thing to do.”
I dunno… I recently started working with a friend of mine who is an avid listener to Jeff Rense’s radio show… so maybe I am just starting to see shadows on my door.
I don’t know why it is illegal in the first place. Go after the clients, the men, and see how long it would stay illegal. Threaten to lock up one of her powerful clients for 55 years and see how fast the laws change. When they go after the Johns instead of the street whores things clean up. They tell us that the constitution protects a woman and gives her the right to do with her own body what she will, even commit murder, yet she can face 55 years in prison for using her body for sex? Ridiculous insanity.
Sara,
1. They do go after the johns, all the time, using female cops as decoys. Google “Johns arrested”
2. Palfrey wasn’t charged with “using her body for sex”, she was charged with racketeering and money laundering.
Racketeering and money laundering are euphemisms for running a prostitution ring. And they don’t go after the Johns in any meaningful way. Once in awhile they go out and do a crackdown on the street and do a massive sweep. Then the outcry begins. How dare they publish a man’s name and address, don’t they know he is a solid citizen with a wife and family. Oh, the kids, etc, etc.
I know a woman (I worked for her attorney) who is now a respected surgeon who ran an escort service to finance her education and medical school. Her client list included CEOs, judges, attorneys, and many who were well known community leaders. I have more respect for her than I do for the Pop Tarts who sell sex every day on my TV screen and in movies. I have more respect for her than I do for the Beverly Hills trophy wives who marry rich in exchange for sexual favors and to make their men look like studs. I have more respect for her than I do for the political whores who sell their souls for money and votes.
I’m with Sara on this one.
I once sold my soul for a bag of Combos.
But it was a big bag, and they were the pretzel kind. So, you know. Obvious choice.
It is one of the most honest professions out there, and outlawing it is a waste of time and resources. But the facts remain what they are: Johns get busted too, and Palfrey was not charged with “selling her body for sex”.
Racketeering in this case is synonymous with pimping, not whoring, and money laundering is what it is.
But the facts remain what they are: Johns get busted too, and Palfrey was not charged with “selling her body for sexâ€Â.
Racketeering in this case is synonymous with pimping, not whoring, and money laundering is what it is.
And whether it should be illegal or not, it is illegal, and it was illegal when Ms Palfrey decided to engage in it. She knew it was illegal, and had been to prison for related activites before.
Now, she could have made herself a voice for Sara’s cause, but she killed herself instead. She was obviously a short-term thinker, and it is her mother that has to live with the consequences.
Legal sex for money might open up new marketing schemes and be just the thing to stimulate this flaccid economy:
Get a blowjob during every test drive!
Free blowjob with every credit analysis!
Open House at 555 Elm Street. FREE BLOWJOBS!!
Free Hot Carl with every blowjob. *Proof of purchase required
If you didn’t eat all of the Combos you can return the unused portion for a full refund. Says so right on the bag. So, you know, what’s the risk?
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Hey, who ate the last Combo?
Somebody say free blow jobx?
who was first? Jeff or HappyFeet? (doing the protean food object satire thing…..such as Rice-o-Roni and Cocoa Puffs…alright! white on rice and not-so-bad-ass chocolate: maybe nancy palosi and obama?) I wasn’t around then.
I bet my son’s cat condoms* fit on those Combos.
*things to put on your finger to smear ear disinfectant in cat’s ears. (they really are condoms but too small for anybody bigger than an pygmy or infant…but probably too big for a cat’s penis….so I guess they are finger condoms! Now, I know. )
You have to count me in with the skeptical crowd here: she has names to name, keeps letting people slip? Loves publicity? Served the rich and powerful in DC? Then commits suicide, conveniently? Ummm, sure.
suicide is sad none-the-less. She suffered immeasurably.