by Andrew Zajac
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Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the Cupid’s bow-lipped escort service impressario, whose phone records have Washington undies in a bunch, has planted a big wet one on the baiduhai.
Or has she?
One of the numbers dialed out from Palfrey’s phone on the afternoon of Jan. 3, 2001 matches that of the Tribune national desk.
Palfrey posted the phone bills for her agency, Pamela Martin and Associates, on-line, in a bid, she’s said, to smoke out customers who will support her contention that services rendered were legal. Palfrey’s lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley, wasn’t of much help in understanding the circumstances of the approximately two and half minute call into one of the more sober and serious corners of the Tribune.
Palfrey didn’t explain it either, though she suggested, vaguely, that she had a reason for calling the number.
First Sibley from a brief phone interview late Tuesday: “I can shed no light on that at all….That’s not the traditional look for a customer call. Usually there are two or three in an hour or so. The customer calls back for directions, confirming, things like that.”
“But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t have been an appointment,” Sibley said, or a personal call of Palfrey’s. “You can’t eliminate any possibility.”
This morning, Palfrey, in response to an e-mail query, said that “all outgoing (itemized) calls were made by me, from California to clients in the Washington area. These are data rich calls. The only way I would have any D.C related telephone number and/or other area code cell number would be if an individual gave it to me.”