She's now ready to talk on national TV. From her California home, she e-mailed tips to the women who worked throughout the Washington, D. Her newsletters, excerpted in court records, were a virtual how-to manual for avoiding all kinds of trouble in a business said to specialize in erotic fantasies. Palfrey, a one-time law student, ran for 13 years what she insists was a legal escort service.
Palfrey piqued fascination, and anxiety, by first threatening to sell phone records that could unveil thousands of clients, and then handing them, apparently for free, to ABC News. She is scheduled to appear Monday in U. District Court in the District of Columbia. Tobias, 65 and married, was director of U. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U. Agency for International Development. He previously held a top job in the Bush administration overseeing AIDS relief, in which he promoted abstinence and a policy requiring grant recipients to swear they oppose prostitution.
Some, Sibley said, have asked if accommodations could be made to keep their identities private. More revelations are in the offing.
The disclosures have been made sparely and artfully. Sibley also filed notice that he intends to depose political consultant Dick Morris in a separate civil proceeding. Morris would not comment. I am sure you can understand my situation.
For all the attention she is attracting, Palfrey retains an air of mystery. She has dropped intriguing hints about herself over the years but demurs when asked for an interview about her life. It is no more complicated than this. Prosecutors have made much of her history: In , she pleaded guilty to attempted felony pimping. She started her Washington, D. The little that is known about Palfrey comes from court records in California and Washington, D.
