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'D.C. Madam' Case Generating More Winces Than Thrills
Deborah Jeane Palfrey contends that her company was "a legal, high-end erotic fantasy service" with clients "from the more refined walks of life."
(By Jay Mallin -- Bloomberg News)
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"I'd hit the gym, work out and at the designated appointment time the person would come to my door," said lawyer Paul Huang, 44, of Rockville, describing his routine. He said he and the escort might have a drink on his deck, get to know each other a little, maybe chat about something in the news. "Then eventually go inside, making out, kissing, clothes would come off . . . and it kind of rolled right into the normal course of man-woman relations."
How often? "Over 100 times" from the mid-1990s until Palfrey "cut me off" in a payment dispute in 2003, he testified. Although every appointment "was about sex, simple as that," Huang said, he allowed that it was also "nice to have someone to hang out with."
Except for the three ex-clients, the two postal inspectors and an IRS agent who showed up to testify with three boxes of documents on a dolly (and did that ever clear out the spectator gallery), the trial has been just a long, sad parade of former prostitutes, some in wigs provided by the government, a feeble disguise, a few dabbing tears on the witness stand.
"I can't say that I remember much about one appointment to the next," said Christy Williamson, 30, of Gaithersburg.
It was just a job -- all in a dreary night's work for women known to clients only by their call-girl names: Angela and Michelle, Natalie and Rita, Renne and Simone.
Angela: "The gentleman and I talked about . . . current events. At one point, we got undressed."
Natalie: "Met up with someone, we spoke . . . then we had sex."
Simone: "We talked for a little bit, and went to the bedroom."
Some scandal.
