# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deborah-jeane-palfrey
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:44:54.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deborah-jeane-palfrey"
name: "Deborah Jeane Palfrey"
slug: "deborah-jeane-palfrey"
description: "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 illegal purposes, and money laundering. Slightly over two weeks later, facing a prison sentence of five or six years, she was found hanged. Autopsy results and the final police investigative report concluded that her death was a suicide."
tagline: "American madam (1956–2008)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1956-03-18"
deathDate: "2008-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.463504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Deborah Jeane Palfrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "ديبورا جين بالفري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "ديبورا جين بالفرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87"
    title: "ডেবোরা জিন পালফ্রে"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Jeane_Palfrey"
    title: "Deborah Jeane Palfrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Jeane_Palfrey"
    title: "Deborah Jeane Palfrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Jeane_Palfrey"
    title: "Deborah Jeane Palfrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Jeane_Palfrey"
    title: "Deborah Jeane Palfrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Jeane_Palfrey"
    title: "Deborah Jeane Palfrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Jeane_Palfrey"
    title: "Deborah Jeane Palfrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Jeane_Palfrey"
    title: "Deborah Jeane Palfrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462029"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump