Aug 7, 2008 8:00 am US/Eastern
'D.C. Madam's' Mom: Don't Release Suicide Photos
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) ―
The mother of the so-called "D.C. Madam" wants to stop the release of police photos taken after her daughter's suicide in Florida.
In May, 52-year-old Deborah Palfrey hanged herself with a nylon rope in a shed outside her mother's mobile home in Tarpon Springs. Her mother discovered the body.
Blanche Palfrey's attorney, Serbo Simeoni, said Thursday he filed a petition to stop the photographs of the scene from being published. He said his client wants the memory of her daughter preserved.
Simeoni said the release constitutes an invasion of privacy, and "continuing intentional infliction of emotional distress."
Palfrey had been convicted two weeks before her death of running a prostitution service that catered to members of Washington's political elite.
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