DC Madam to the Big Screen?

Agents are shopping a book and documentary of the famed flesh peddler
By Elizabeth Wolff,  Newser Staff
Posted May 13, 2008 1:20 PM CDT
DC Madam to the Big Screen?
Deborah Jeane Palfrey reads a statement outside federal court in Washington in March.   (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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. (More Deborah Jeane Palfrey stories.)

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