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"DC Madam" Deborah Palfrey reported to commit suicide
5/1/2008 1:45 PM
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Police have reported that the celebrated DC Madam Deborah Palfrey has committed suicide. Her body was discovered in a storage shed near her mother's home. She apparently left a suicide note, but police are not divulging the contents of the note.
Palfrey was convicted in April of running a prostitution ring which catered to Washington's political elite. She was scheduled to be sentenced on July 24th. Many Washington politicians have been nervous that they might be implicated as more information regarding her client list comes to light.
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Hey, remember that time the president lied under oath about some inappropriate behavior with a subordinate and got impeached by the House of Representatives? Apparently Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick doesn't!
The embattled Motor City mayor lied under oath, it seems, about having an affair with his chief of staff last year. Now that sexually explicit text messaged between the two of them have been published everywhere they've both been charged with perjury!
If there's one thing all these various sex scandals should teach any public official who has a hard time keeping it in his pants it's this: just admit it and say you're sorry. In extreme circumstances, you may need to check into rehab and write a book. But there's a formula is the point, and lying under oath isn't part of it because then you just lose your job.
Kilpatrick says that he looks forward to getting cleared in the upcoming perjury trial. So do we Kwame, so do we.
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David Paterson has been governor of New York for two days now, and it looks like he just stepped in crap. He went out of his way to disclose his extramarital affairs before being sworn in, which was honorable but not really necessary.
But he's now made it a big, huge deal by telling lies and acting like an idiot! The New York Post is reporting that a former Olympian the paper describes as "attractive" has had a "close" relationship with Paterson within the past year. The woman's name is Diane Dixon and she was a track and field medalist in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic games.
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Dixon says Paterson helped her secure a government job, secretly taping their phone conversations as repayment. Classy! She also says that she got a message from Paterson in the past couple days asking if she's talking to the press. Looks like the answer to that one is yes! I wonder what Paterson did to scorn this woman so? Other than having an affair with her while never entertaining the notion of actually leaving his foxy wife, that is.
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David Paterson has been governor of New York for just over 24 hours and already he has admitted to an extra-marital affair. But don't get too excited, this one's the more conventional variety.
"There was a period of time where it appeared this marriage was going sour," Paterson told the New York Daily News just hours after being sworn in. He admitted having an affair with "a woman other than my wife." Michelle Paterson had a similar confession to make.
This story has a happy ending though. They went to counseling, worked it all out, and even went to the same hotel where Paterson used to do his mistress. How about being governor for new and exciting? That should get the New York's new first lady's blood pumping.
Unlike his predecessor though, Paterson doesn't seem to have broken any laws in his extra-curricular carnal pursuits and we can file this one under the category, "water under the bridge."
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And just when you thought your sex scandals involving disgraced tri-state area governors couldn't get any juicer, like a gift from above, they do.
This isn't Spitzer, Yesterday evening, former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevy, who resigned in 2004 amid claims of appointing a lover to be his homeland security adviser, confirmed that he and his estranged wife Dina Matos McGreevy had three-way sex with young male aide.
"This happened, this happened in the past, and now we need to move on with our lives," McGreevy said after the aide, Teddy Pederson, told the New York Post about the threesomes yesterday. Matos McGreevy, who is divorcing her husband and suing him for damages, denies the trysts, saying Pederson is acting to discredit her. As if any of these people needs any help being discredited.
But we believe McGreevy on this one and not his enraged estranged wife. He, after all, as already lost everything.
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Earlier today, the state of New York got its 55th governor. David Paterson was sworn in during a special joint session of the legislature in Albany.
So happy to be rid of Spitzer is the Empire State's capital that Paterson received at 2-minute standing ovation when he entered the chamber. He was sworn in and and gave a 12-minute speech addressing the economy which he said was "headed toward crisis" and also spoke of restoring a sense of bipartisan comity in Albany.
He didn't mention Spitzer by name, but the fact that he feels that a spirit of bi-partisanship needs to be restored does seem to indicate that it was lost at some point. If Paterson is skillful, he may be able to channel the bi-partisan excitement about his ascension to the state's top job into reform. T
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The crowd was practically raucous during the swearing-in. According to the New York Times, applause and cheering interrupted the process after Paterson began the oath of office. Chief Justice Judith Kaye had to tell the crowd, "Not yet," in order to finish the process.
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Things are getting worse and worse for Eliot Spitzer. We already know that he was traveling on the taxpayers dime when he would hire prostitutes while traveling, but now the feds are looking into whether or not he used campaign funds to pay for his $1000/hr love-ins as well.
The inquiry focuses specifically on whether or not he used the campaign cash to pay for hotel rooms or the transportation of girls to and from wherever he happened to be.
The Huffington Post points out that if these new allegation prove to be true, that would be a bit of extra embarrassment for this disgraced reformer since he put such an emphasis on bringing campaign finance reform to Albany as governor.
Unless of course his focus was on making campaign funds available to pay for high-end hookers. In that case, his tenure could be considered markedly more successful.
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Last night, we learned that Ashley Aexlandra Dupré is the prostitute named "Kristen" that got Eliot Spitzer into all that trouble.
She also happens to be an aspiring R&B singer who made have just gotten the biggest break of her career, a fact that isn't lost on her for a second. In fact, the price for which she sells her music has gone up significantly over night. And why not? We have television shows that make pop stars of people for no other reason than for the act in and of itself.
Why can't her experience as the call girl who sank a Governor launch her singing career or at least give her a little sales spike that might lead to her finding a new line of work? She's going to need one especially now that her old gig has fallen through and she's going to be testifying against her old bosses in federal court.
We haven't heard her stuff and we can't imagine that it suits our preferences. But it's probably good enough to make her a pretty penny.
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"I kind of feel like the student who's getting ready for the final exam but they didn't attend any classes," David Paterson, New York's Lt. Governor, said over the radio this morning.
He's due to take over the state's top job on Monday after his boss, Eliot Spitzer, has resigned in disgrace, leaving behind a paralyzed state capitol and growing budget crisis.
Paterson has admitted that when it comes to the budget issue, he's more or less in the dark. Mostly though, he feels that it's going to be his job to coordinate those who know more about this than he does and to restore the sense of comity that Spitzer was so effective at destroying.
State Sen. Burno, the Majority Leader who has conflicted with Spitzer's administration, has said he looks forward to working with Paterson.
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Spitzer came to Albany promising to break the gridlock that has notoriously plagued New York politics. Ironically, it looks as though it could be his resignation might be the catalyst for just that kind of change.
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The Times is really, really applying itself to this Spitzer story, demonstrating such a shocking ability to uncover the truth.
If only the paper investigated the President's claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq with the same zeal it sought to uncover the identity of "Client 9" and, yesterday, "Kristen" the $1000/hour prostitute whose tryst with Eliot Spitzer led to his political destruction, the entire geo-political landscape of the entire world might look very different today.
That said, we're thrilled that "Kirsten" has been identified as 22 year-old Ashley Dupré, an aspiring R&B singer living in Manhattan's Flatiron district. "I just don't want to be thought of as a monster," she told the paper in an interview yesterday.
Don't worry, Ashley. You're no monster. You're a gorgeous, $1000/hour hero, who's desire for easy money exposed one of the biggest hypocrites in contemporary American politics.
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Never has the destruction of a politician, both personally and politically, been so thorough and complete as the one that has claimed Eliot Spitzer.
The New York Times has posted a story tracing the events of the days leading to the discovery of Eliot Spitzer's taste for high class prostitutes.
Apparently, after it was announced that federal investigators had arrested 4 individuals accused of running the Emperor's Club VIP prostitution ring, reporters discovered that members on a federal corruption unit were present on the case.
The reporters became convinced that a high level government official was implicated in the case, and by Friday or Saturday, they were convinced that it was Spitzer. Spitzer alerted his staff Sunday, on Monday, apologized to the public, and by Wednesday afternoon he had resigned.
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The Times report doesn't give details about how and why their reporters came to believe it was Spitzer who was implicated, another than wishful thinking proven to be correct, of course.
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A screenwriter couldn't invent a more thorough personal destruction than the one playing out in the state of New York and in the national media. It's coming out that Eliot Spitzer's taste for prostitutes may go back years and have cost as much as $80,000 or more.
But here's the next curve in what is promising to be a case that gets better and better: Spitzer was using tax dollars to fly to and from his trysts.
The Emperor's Club wasn't the only outfit that Spitzer patronized, an one other call girl who goes by the name Sienna has come out saying Spitzer paid her for sex when he was still attorney general. S | | |