The Deborah Jeane Palfrey story had boffo foreplay and a really shitty climax.

And it started right here at City Paper. That’s where Palfrey, based in California, bought classified advertisements seeking local college-age whores to service her high-powered johns in the DC market.

Well, that was basically how legal authorities played the tale when they busted Palfrey in 2007 and charged her with a variety of prostitution-related crimes.

Not long after the investigation broke, Randall Tobias, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, was outted as a client of the hooker service. Tobias admitted to ABC’s Brian Ross, the pervy looking sweaty dude with the teensy mouth who broke the Tobias angle and pursued the DC Madam story harder than anybody else in mainstream media, that he’d used Palfrey’s services, but insisted he only got massages and never went around-the-world.

Tobias also gave the Palfrey story its  funniest moments, at one point telling Ross that he’d call up the Madam so casually it was “like ordering pizza,” and later having to hear Ross report that Tobias’ main task in the Bush administration was to run a program that aimed to help males in Third World“develop healthy relationships with women.”

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Holy shit, former D.C. Madam defense lawyer Montgomery Blair Sibley wrote a 600-page self-published book about Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s “judicial lynching.” She ended up hanging herself, remember. Resonance!

The book is titled “Why Just Her.” If this two-minute “book trailer” is any indication, it’s going to be amazing.

Oh man. See what he did there with the pull away from Preston Burton revealing Monica Lewinsky? This guy is good.

According to WTOP, the Vallejo, California home of “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey is “about to be sold.” After Palfrey was convicted of running a prostitution ring last year, her assets were frozen, and her 140-year-old Victorian two-bedroom (listed at $748,500) was taken off the market. Since then, Palfrey committed suicide and the housing market went to shit. Now, a federal judge has approved the sale of the home, which is yours for a cool $290,940.