Call-Girl Ring Madam Gets Probation
The Huntington Woods Madam, accused of running a million-dollar-a-year call-girl ring in Detroit’s well-to-do suburbs, was placed on two years’ probation Tuesday.
Marci Devernay, 33, pleaded guilty to racketeering in exchange for the dismissal of five other counts related to the prostitution ring she allegedly ran out of her home. She could have gotten 20 years in prison.
Last week, police released 7,000 names from her computerized little black book, possibly confirming the worst fears of suspicious spouses. After seizing the records, police were besieged with calls from curious wives and from men offering excuses for why their names might be in there.
Devernay ran an operation prosecutor Paul Walton called “a 20th century brothel with incidental acts of legitimate massage.”
Walton asked Circuit Judge Deborah Tyner to put Devernay behind bars for one year.
But defense attorney Richard Lustig said there was a tacit agreement with Oakland County Prosecutor David Gorcyca that Devernay wouldn’t get jail time.
In addition to the names released last week, Huntington Woods police said there are another 7,000 names on Devernay’s Rolodex and about 6,000 more in paper files that will be released later.
Police released the names and addresses on a CD-ROM.
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