Wow. That is really sad.

I'm betting somebody WANTED/NEEDED her dead. Prison would have been relatively easy for her -- she's abused her body in the past anyway.

This is a pretty sad indictment on society, when she is dragged through the courts, and the john, well, elliot, is (although mercilessly mocked in the court of public opinion) given a mere slap on the hand with a wet bus ticket, if even that.

Incredibly sad.

I don't even know what to say.

For some reason though all I can think of is that Elliot Spitzer and David Vitter are never going to suffer consequences even remotely close to this.

ZOMG!!! Hitlery killed her with the gun she used on Vince Foster, in order to drive the NC robocalls off the media's radar!!!!

Anyone know how much time she was facing?

This is real sad. Especially when you think about what her "crime" was.

Getting rich people laid. Sure, she was a character and she knew that what she was doing was illegal.

But as a moral matter, she shouldn't have ever been charged with a crime.

Not for nothin', but this is the second suicide connected with this case.

Well, she was a pimp, not a prostitute or a john. These are different things, and personally I think it makes a lot of sense that pimps face the most punishment.

It's very sad, though. Apparently she argued to a court once that if she went to prison she'd be beaten or killed. Not that you'd expect such an argument to be persuasive, but this almost certainly proves that she really meant it (whether it was actually suicide or not)!

Will take a beating for this, but happen to think what a woman does with her body is not the matter of the government unless she is hurting someone. This is sad, and I do think people wanted her dead. However as it stands its against the law, and she broke it, again so sad!

Will her charges now be dropped like Ken Lay's were when he died before sentencing?

Somebody has got to hold these prosecutors accountable. Their goal all along has been to intimidate and humiliate the women involved in this case for no other reason than to indulge their own moralizing egos.

Who was the "victim" of Palfrey's "crimes" --the men who willingly paid for escorts, the escorts who willingly worked for her, or the hotels that they all used?

Sure, it was technically illegal. So is tearing the tags off of a mattress.

With all the serious public safety issues we face, it's a disgrace that the Bush-tards wasted taxpayer money to pick on these women.

How many suicides has this case wrought in total? Two? Three?

Is there any reason the entirety of her files cannot now be made public?

I think we can see from the way that "Johns" get treated that there is hardly any reason for murder here. Seriously. If Cheney himself was found to be on her grand list it would probably do his reputation well!

Settle down with the bogus conspiracies, people.

Don't forget J.H. Hatfield author of Fortunate Son

It's being reported that she hanged herself. For some reason, I'm just bot buying this.

Heart breaking.

Will the "reputable" investigative news group that she reported selling her client list to now step forward?

This is a tragedy. It is not a laughing matter. Whatever the circumstances, hanging is not something women do lightly.

Long ago, before I became a therapist, my husband and I (along with our young son) picked up a young woman hitchhiking on a Saturday morning - in the rain. The father of her children had just hung himself... rather than go back to prison.

This speaks not only to prostitution... and all those who enable it. It also speaks to prisons. To the fact that we in the US incarcerate 25% of the world's total prisoners. Do you understand that? We've become the world's gulag!!! And prison is not a place any of us would like to be.

RIP poor soul.

RIP America.

Woops. Messed up the link:

Hookergate Expands to Cheney

From the sources I have read online- friends and acquaintances of hers-she was not the suicidal type.
Frightened and slightly paranoid,yes, but suicidal, no.
Was she offed? The sheriff of the town immediately pointed out it was "definitely a suicide". How would this pinhead definitively determine that was the case?
He couldn't without professional forensics and an investigation of some kind. An attempt at throwing the dogs off the scent. Perhaps she really had the goods on some important politicos who would strangle their first born to prevent her from leaking anything in her little black book. For once I would like to see some justice from this if there was truly any criminal.
By the way, where is that little black book of hers?

From Huffpost:

"If taken into custody, my physical safety and most probably my very life would be jeopardized," she wrote in August 1991 following an attempt to bring her to trial, "Rape, beating, maiming, disfigurement and more than likely murder disguised in the form of just another jailhouse accident or suicide would await me," said Palfrey in a handwritten letter to the judge accusing the San Diego police vice squad of having a vendetta against her.

During several recent appearances on The Alex Jones Show, Palfrey also said that she was at risk of being killed and that authorities would make it look like suicide. She made it clear that she was not suicidal and if she was found dead it would be murder.

Palfrey had threatened to release the names of well-known clients of her upscale call girl ring in the nation's capitol, and had indicated that Dick Cheney may be one of them.

"No I'm not planning to commit suicide," Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show on her last appearance, "I'm planning on going into court and defending myself vigorously and exposing the government," she said.

Oops. Just replied about the term "suicided" to David above. I guess people have already figured out how to contort that noun into a verb, at least in participial form.