The woman at the centre of a Washington escort service scandal ran her business from Ireland while on a trip to the country in November 2004, her newly released phone records have shown.
Self-confessed escort agency manager Deborah Jeane Palfrey has caused a political storm in Washington this week after releasing the phone records to the consternation of politicians and high-powered Washington figures.
A Republican senator yesterday admitted to having committed "serious sin" with her Pamela Martin and Associates escort agency, while a former deputy secretary of state, Randall Tobias, resigned before the records were released late on Monday.
The records show that Ms Palfrey had 68 business phone calls on her mobile phone while on a trip to Dublin between November 25th and November 29th, 2004.
One call log shows her calling a Dublin number at 11.03pm on November 27th, 2004, while Ms Palfrey made 29 calls to her home base in Vallejo in California, where prosecutors say she ran an escort business for 13 years and allegedly made $2 million (€1.5 million).
Many other calls are to numbers in the greater Washington area, where US prosecutors say Ms Palfrey ran a prostitution ring for high-paying clients.
Ms Palfrey spent $110.88 on business calls during her trip to Ireland, including 29 incoming phone calls.
Apart from calling her California base, Ms Palfrey also called numbers in Alexandria and Leesburg, Virginia, and Silver Spring and Pikesville, Maryland.
Many of the phone numbers are believed to be those of suburban Washington hotels, where many of Ms Palfrey's clients were staying.
Ms Palfrey, who is due to go on trial, has said that she ran a legitimate escort business and decided to release the records to find witnesses to confirm her story. Others see it as an attempt to embarrass the political establishment into agreeing with her claims that she sold "sexual fantasy" and not sex.
A call to her lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley, asking if her trip to Ireland was business or pleasure has not yet been returned.
A preliminary search of her phone records for later years show that calls were made to Ms Palfrey from estate agents and insurance companies as well as from Washington politicians and aides.
Louisiana senator David Vitter acknowledged that his number appeared in Ms Palfreys's phone records and asked for the forgiveness of God and his family.