Heidi Fleiss, who until recently held sway as the nation's best known madam, thinks Deborah Jeane Palfrey should keep her yap shut. Palfrey, the alleged D.C. madam with a stable of $300-an-hour call girls and a client list that reads like a who's who of Washington, D.C., power brokers, has been strategically fingering clients and has threatened to sell off more names to pay for her legal defense.

"I know she's probably being swallowed up alive, and a lot of people can't take that weight on their shoulders," says rehabilitated Hollywood madam Fleiss, "but she's naming names and that goes against my principles—I realized I'd sunk my ship, but I wasn't taking anyone with me."

Palfrey gave a list of 10,000 names to ABC news just before a judge ordered her not to release them and claims to have 46 pounds of phone records with names including "a Bush Administration economist, the head of a conservative think tank, a prominent CEO, several lobbyists, and a handful of military officials," according to ABC.

About two weeks ago, court records were released in which Palfrey named as a client Harlan K. Ullman, the military strategist behind the Iraq invasion parlance "shock and awe." On Friday, Randall L. Tobias resigned as deputy secretary of state in the wake of Palfrey's loose-lipped revelations. The married 65-year-old former director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and AIDS czar made his bones with international abstinence programs and required recipients of government grants to swear opposition to prostitution. Tobias told ABC's Brian Ross that he had called Palfrey not for sex but "to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage," adding that he has since used a different massage service "with Central American gals."

Palfrey's lawyer has dropped a not-so-subtle hint about his next target, too: politico Dick Morris, whom he says he plans to depose in another civil proceeding, the Washington Post reports. Which raises another point for Fleiss: the fact that Palfrey is in hot water while the men who were allegedly her clients get slaps on the wrists.

"There is a double standard, and I'm sure she [Paltry] feels that way," says the former madam, who's just opened a laundromat and is still hard at work trying to get a license for the male brothel she's been trying to open for at least a year in Nevada.

"Look at Charlie Sheen," she says. "He testified against me, and he was just as involved as I was."