May 1 is a difficult day for many people who remember “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who did interviews with Big Head DC and answered many of our requests for information. Her former lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley, is using the one-year anniversary of her death, which was ruled a suicide, to launch a publicity tour for his new book, Why Just Her. According to Amazon.com, the 600-page book promises to trace Jeane’s final 20 months “as the judicial system time and again failed to live up to its promise to insure “justice.’” Sibley has also started a Web site and blog that offer many insights into Jeane’s life and state of mind.

As his book promotion kicked off, he did an interview with Big Head DC:

BHDC: You obviously felt close to Jeane. How would you describe your relationship?

Montgomery Blair Sibley: Counselor/client of course. But I define that a little differently than most attorneys I know as I believe attorneys have a therapeutic role as well as a legal counselor role to play for their clients. So with Jeane, I was more than just an attorney.

BHDC: Did you ever grow feelings beyond attorney/client for her?

MBS: Not on a personal love relationship if that is what you mean, but we were friends on a deep level.

BHDC: Are you at all angry with the psychic who told Jeane about the after-life soon before her death?

MBS: No, as Jeane was entitled to her own belief system, and who is to say she was wrong?

BHDC: Could her death have been prevented?

MBS: I don’t know, but I don’t believe it would have happened on my watch.

BHDC: Do you at all feel any part responsible for her death, i.e. do you feel you could have done more?

MBS: No, I consulted several attorneys about my responsibilities as her former legal counsel and the consensus was I had no authority or right to intervene to get her locked up to prevent her from committing suicide.

BHDC: Will there always be some people out there who think Jeane did not commit suicide?

MBS: I have gotten several e-mails today on that very topic lambasting me for helping the cover up.

BHDC: After the book promotion is done, will you be able to easily move on from the Jeane chapters of your life?

MBS: They say time heals all wounds, so time will let me know.

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Montgomery Blair Sibley provides a sad update via e-mail today regarding the infamous “DC Madam”:

Judge Robertson Sets Status Hearing In Palfrey Case

Greetings:

As you all know, Jeane died on May 1, 2008, in an apparent suicide.

As a result, Judge Robertson was required to dismiss the criminal charges against her thus ending the criminal suit. See: Order of May 20, 2008.

The dismissal of the criminal case lifts the stay of the civil forfeiture of Jeane’s seized assets — which total over $1.5 million — and that civil case will now proceed. That stay order was entered to prevent Jeane from being able: “to obtain an impermissible advantage and to prejudice the Government’s position in this criminal prosecution.”

Judge Robertson has set a status conference for Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. in Courtroom 23A. At that time, the Judge will address the substitution for Jeane by a representative of Jeane’s estate to contest the forfeiture of Jeane’s assets.

That contest could ultimately result in a complete re-trial of the matters raised in the criminal case with the significant difference that the rules of civil procedure would allow broad discovery of information that the government was able to block from use in the criminal matter. That information includes, among other data, the names of 855 customers of the Jeane’s escort service and their telephone numbers saved for — but oddly not used — in the criminal trial and heretofore never publicly revealed which are presently in the custody of the undersigned.

Our read on this: The case lives on, and quite a few people should still be on edge. We hope Jeane is watching.

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UPDATE, 2:00 a.m., from Larry Sinclair: “Please feel free to post this if you so wish. I personally find nothing offensive or inappropriate with your recent post. If nothing else I find you have asked a question out loud that I am sure many have asked silently for some time. The tragic demise of Ms. Palfrey only put your question more up front. I will be posting this in the comments on my blog to inform how I feel about your post. Continue being you and having guts that so many other sites lack in their questioning.”

Original post, 6:44 p.m, May 2: In light of Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s sad, sad passing, many people have been writing in to Big Head DC, privately asking whether we think Larry Sinclair, the man who claims to have used drugs with Sen. Barack Obama in 1999, would ever consider suicide. Considering the political, cultural and other dark forces that Sinclair continues to face everyday, who can really say for sure? After all, when we interviewed Palfrey just a few short months ago (and regularly talked to her all the way up until early April), she always seemed strong, defiant, resilient and said in no uncertain terms that she would never consider killing herself. Yesterday, according to police, she went back on that word, put a noose around her neck, and jumped. She told us many times over how much she loves her mom; that she allowed her mom to find her dangling and lifeless makes the situation all the more shocking.

A recent post on Sinclair’s blog may tell us more about the inner demons he struggles with better than we could ever get via a direct answer from his mouth at any particular point in time:

Today, I actually finally for the first time since all this started broke down crying and just wanted to bungee jump off the Blatknic Bridge without the bungee cord. You have to be crazy to stand up to power and money in this Country. There is no such thing as “liberty and justice for all” in the United States of America any more.

I am even starting to wonder why I ever thought it was important for the truth to be told about anyone seeking to be President of the United States. Whats the point? If Michelle Obama can sleep with a man that she knows is laying in bed and car seats with other men, and raise her children with that man, then what does it matter? What does it matter if Obama gets in the White-house and fires up a crack pipe?

I am signing off for the night. Maybe I will log back on tomorrow and maybe I will not.

Should Sinclair keep up his battle for what he believes is right? Or should he try to move on and make it to another tomorrow — a tomorrow that Palfrey will never see? Only time will tell.

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Long-time Big Head DC friend Deborah Jeane Palfrey passed away this morning at her mother’s home in Florida. Police reports are classifying the death of the “D.C. Madam” as a suicide. Palfrey had previously been found guilty of racketeering, money laundering and two counts of using the mail for illegal purposes. It is believed that Sen. David Vitter and other politicos used the services of Palfrey’s escort business, which she always defended as a “fantasy” escort business.

Earlier: Big Head DC’s Exclusive Interview with Palfrey

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