Washington Post-- \"Miz Julia\" doled out a steady stream of advice, both practical and philosophical.
From her Vallejo home, the so-called \"D.C. Madam\" e-mailed tips to the 132 women who worked in the Washington area for the firm Pamela Martin & Associates. Her newsletters, now 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.
\"One never quite knows where evil, i.e., the vice squad is lurking in this business,\" read one arch entry from 1995. \"The misogynists get a real kick out of surprising (shocking) you girls, when you give them the opportunity!!! ... Therefore, you are to lock, double lock, triple lock all doors!!! ... Figure it out, before they 'get cha'!!!\"
Miz Julia was the pseudonym of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the woman at the center of a sex scandal that has caused a deputy secretary of state to resign and has lawyers calling around town trying to keep their clients' names out of public view. She is scheduled to appear Monday in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia.
A one-time law student, Palfrey for 13 years ran what she insists was a legal escort service. Federal prosecutors allege she was providing $300-an-hour prostitutes, and a grand jury indicted her in February on federal racketeering charges.
Palfrey piqued fascination -- and anxiety -- by first threatening to sell phone records that could unveil thousands of clients, then handing them over, apparently for free, to ABC News.
