Rob Capriccioso, a Washington, D.C., blogger and sometime (now former) Radar freelancer, reported on his own blog, bigheaddc.com, this morning that Sam Donaldson's phone number appears on the D.C. Madam's supposed client list—the record of outgoing phone calls that Deborah Jean Palfrey made while operating the high-end-hooker operation that serviced Sen. David Vitter and other D.C. potentates. (Radar mentioned the Bigheaddc story here.) What he didn't report is that Palfry told him, repeatedly, in no uncertain terms, that her single telephone call to Donaldson had nothing to do with prostitution.
Capriccioso found out about Donaldson's involvement from Radar. We were looking into the Donaldson rumor and stupidly asked Capriccioso, who claimed to have a relationship with Palfry, to talk to her about it. We decided not to pursue the item for reasons explained below, so he picked it up for himself without so much as a "thank you" or heads-up.
Palfry told Capriccioso at the time—unequivocally—that Donaldson was not a client. She insisted to him that a female relative of Donaldson's—she thought her name was Ellen—had mixed up a digit when she gave Donaldson her number, and that the wrong number just happened to be Palfry's. So every time Donaldson attempted to call Ellen, he unknowingly reached Palfry's voicemail and left a message. Palfry tired of the messages and called Donaldson back—once—to alert him to the error. This, Palfry told Capriccioso, explains the single appearance of Donaldson's number in records of her outgoing phone calls. The explanation sounds preposterous to us, but it's what Palfry told Capriccioso. Here's an e-mail he sent to a Radar editor reporting his conversation with her:
"After receiving many calls from Sam Donaldson leaving pleasantries for his releative
on her personal cell number voicemail in the mid-2000s, Palfrey herself decided to give him a call to relay what she assumed to be a mistake. 'Would you please tell your relative to give out the correct phone number?' Palfrey recalls asking Donaldson. 'I was sick and tired of getting these phone calls from people all over Washington asking for his relative.' When she talked to Donaldson, he was immediately panicked and asked how she got his number (she says she didn't tell him that she ran an escort service). She explained the whole story to him about her receiving messages that were obviously not intending for her."
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/11/donaldsons-digits-wrong-number.php
I can believe it. After all, there are some things even prostitutes won't do, no matter how much you pay them. Gawd, look at that face. What Rodney Dangerfield used to call a 'two-bagger'
'I put a bag over my head in case the bag over her head breaks.'
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