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DC Madam to the Big Screen?

Agents are shopping a book and documentary of the famed flesh peddler

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(Newser) – The DC madam may have committed suicide last week to avoid jail, but her story lives on. Literary agents are discussing doing a documentary on Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the New York Post reports, and have lined up biographer C. David Heymann to write a book about the sex industry, with Palfrey as the focus. "Perhaps her life won't have been taken in vain," said agent Marianne Strong.

Deborah Jeane Palfrey reads a statement outside federal court in Washington in March.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey reads a statement outside federal court in Washington in March.   (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey decided to hang herself instead of face five to six years in jail. Now literary agents are shopping a documentary on her life.
DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey decided to hang herself instead of face five to six years in jail. Now literary agents are shopping a documentary on her life.   (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Deborah Jeane Palfrey better known as the DC Madam.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey better known as the DC Madam.   (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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