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FILE ** In this March 9, 2007 file photo Deborah Jeane Palfrey reads a statement outside federal court in Washington. A woman police believe to be convicted Washington escort service operator Palfrey committed suicide, officials said Thursday May 1, 2008. Palfrey faced about five or six years in prison and was free pending her sentencing July 24.

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