How tragic, sad, and pointless....
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4765743&page=1
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How tragic, sad, and pointless....
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4765743&page=1
OMG!!! I'm shocked! That is really tragic. The media scrutiny obviously really got her... or something else Hmm.
Well having to serve 4 to 8 years ...and pretty much knowing life is over ..I could see where it would make someone feel like taking their own life is the only option. I feel for her mom.
I actually have my own conspiracy theories on the matter. Perhaps her threat to "name names" backfired. :-\
^^^
Qft!
I don't think this was a suicide at all. Think of how many powerful names she had the power to destroy -- and did. Now think about those who weren't named. Hmmm...a suicide, when she could potentially cash in big with a book or movie deal? When she has a court fight ahead of her (appeal?)? I doubt that highly. This kind of thing is so obvious. And whenever a newspaper like the Washington Post phrases it as an "APPARENT suicide" -- that's a pretty big give-away, too.
It's interesting that she had made so many despondent statements, but it just seems so unlikely.
^ I don't think so either. Seems suspicious to me, but very sad.
Did anyone read the interview with her in $PREAD? It was pretty good.
I could see it being a suicide. Especially since they note that she had already served prison time.. if it had been a truly traumatizing experience, the threat of prison again could have sent her over the edge
In either case, condolences for her mother.
Wow, I hope she's at peace now.
i could see it going either way. she did say she would never go back to prison then again the names she could have named, could have the power to have her shut up for good.
Foul play was my first thought also but who knows? She probably didn't want to go back to prison.
I really wish they would ease up on prostitution. Seriously. If two consenting adults decide to have sex, whats the difference if money changes hands ?
I'm not a huge fan of pimps.
She was interviewed in $pread? I'll have to track that down. I'm watching Nancy Grace talk about it now. I really wonder about this, too.
REgarding the above statement about pimps:
I don't think any women here are a big fan of pimps. To call Ms. Palfrey a pimp is a gross misnomer in my opinion. She ran an agency which provided a service for procuring work for her contracted ladies to meet with their clients. The women who work for an agency more often than not come of their own volition and know what they are getting into. The details of their remuneration are drawn out for them from day one.
This is the antithesis of a stereotypical 'pimp' who exploits and solicits women who might have limited options for other work or who may be coerced into providing a service for men in which they generally are expected to turn over ALL monies earned and are given a considerably smaller allowance, if at all.
Furthermore, truly exploited workers often live-in with their pimp and perhaps several other women and are threatened with physical abuse for not 'producing'. I have never heard any reports of this woman being anything akin to a 'pimp' in its most commonly accepted form. The service she provided is not much different from any other 'talent' agency whether that agency represents mainstream actors, porn stars, sports stars, or any other form of entertainment.
Not all agent-based relationships are the same sure, and,yes, with escorting, the madam/agent tends to take a higher percentage than most other agents would. However,you have to remember that the risk they take is substantially higher than the risk other agents take in more socially acceptable forms of entertainment and the penalties agency owners face in a possible bust far surmount that of their workers. (Money laundering/pandering/etc. as oposed to a misdemeanor prostitution charge which can be thrown out due to lack of evidence).
In a bust, often files are seized and the owners are the ones in deep water. The escort ensnared in a bust is next in line for penalty, but she is often let go as there are much bigger fish to fry with those who organized the 'crime'.....The other employees, so long as they lay low, do not have nearly as much to fear in a fall-out.
Palfrey faced up to 55 years of jail time for money laundering in this case). The only form of 'soliciting' she could be charged with could only be (weakly)gleaned through employment advertisements which are par for the course for any industry and hardly constitute the coercive forces at work when one compares her work with the dealings associated with a pimp/'managed' based working relationship.
I hope that her soul is at rest and that she is at peace. May justice be served if there is any nefarious circumstances surrounding her death which come to light.
:( Horrible and sad.
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How tragic, sad, and pointless....
Very sad.
I also find it unlikely that it was anything other than suicide, if she out's you while she's alive you can fight it, if it comes out after she's dead, hell of a lot harder.
I'm such a bitch, but if I were her I would have lived just to take as many of the big guys down with me as I could :)
I am disappointed but can not rule out foul play. Too many big hitters on her list.
Pity she did not have the list setup to be distributed in the event of her untimely death... that'd be great on a place like wiki leaks.
That's really sad.
Her mother found the body. What a horrible and selfish thing to do. Hell of a story for me to wake up to this morning.
We can only imagine the pressure she was under and hope she is at peace.
^^^^^
I also think its pretty selfish- side note tangent here-
My little sister's friend killed herself, and right before she hung herself (on a playground right before an elementary school's recess) she mailed a note to her boyfriend telling him it was all his fault. She was found by a group of first graders and their teachers. He got the note on the morning of her funeral.
HOW FUCKED UP?