Bush sexual fantasy White House Madam

Deborah Palfrey has members of Washington's who's who quivering over her determination to name names.

DEBORAH Jeane Palfrey ran her high-end sexual fantasy business in a way carefully designed to keep the feds at bay.

In quintessential Washington style, the District of Columbia madam solicited male clients who paid up to $US300 ($A360) an hour and hired about 130 subcontractors Ñ women aged from 23 to 55 Ñ under detailed employment agreements that required them to perform only lawful acts.

Now, rather than keep her clients secret, she has decided to unmask them Ñ in the name of her legal defence. And she has elicited the help of America's ABC News to do it, turning over 21 kilograms of phone records, with "thousands and thousands" of clients that, she promises, reach "high into the echelons of power in the United States".

Randall Tobias, the Bush Administration's "AIDS tsar", abruptly resigned last week after acknowledging that he had used Palfrey's service, "but only to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage".

Mr Tobias, who oversaw global AIDS funding, was charged with enforcing a controversial policy that required groups to denounce prostitution and sex trafficking in order to get federal HIV/AIDS prevention money. He told ABC there was "no sex" and he switched from Palfrey's shop to one "with Central American gals".