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Monday, March 5, 2012

Manhattan madam busted for running upper East Side brothel catering to wealthy clients


Arrest was culmination of five-year investigation by Manhattan DA's office

A soccer mom with four kids ran an Upper East Side brothel that raked in millions of dollars catering to wealthy, powerful johns — allegedly using her cop connections for protection, according to explosive court documents.

Anna Gristina, 44, an Ugg-wearing animal lover, operated her high-priced prostitution ring out of an East 78th Street apartment, and boasted “business contacts worldwide,” Manhattan Assistant DA Charles Linehan told a judge at the alleged madam’s arraignment hearing.

Her “black book” included powerful politicians, top-law enforcement, influential lawyers, bankers, entertainment execs and Fortune 500 businessmen, as well as several ultra-wealthy European clients, sources said.

I see people in and out coming over here . . . sometimes many in one day,’’ said Mohammed Azad, 32, who owns a restaurant in the building where Gristina allegedly operated her brothel. “I always see young fashionable women, always under 30 . . . They don’t live here.’’

The petite, blond Gristina was caught on wiretaps claiming “to have made millions over the 15 or so years she has been in business as a madam,” Linehan said, according to newly released transcripts of the Feb. 23 hearing.

At least once, the married mom, who lives with her family in upstate Monroe, arranged a sexual encounter for a client in which “minors were involved,” Linehan said.

He cited information from at least one eyewitness account — a confidential informant who was one of Gristina’s own hookers.

Known in the industry as “Anna Scotland,’’ the Scottish native was nailed as part of a five-year investigation by the DA’s Official Corruption Unit, which probes NYPD and other uniformed officers for possible misconduct.

At one point, Gristina was caught on tape saying her law-enforcement pals were “poised to help her out, to let her know if there is trouble on the front that she needs to be concerned about, particularly back during the Eliot Spitzer investigation,” Linehan said, referring to the former governor’s hooker scandal.

An arrest warrant was issued for Gristina last month.

When cops arrived at her upstate home,, where she rescues wild pigs and raises pit bulls, they didn’t find anyone — but a wild boar chased a police officer around, the sources said.

Gristina was nabbed soon after in the company of a Morgan Stanley banker and “close friend’’ whom she was trying to get to help her expand her operation through the Internet, the court papers revealed.

She was held on a $2 million bond or $1 million cash bail.

Gristina’s Monroe neighbors were stunned to learn of her bust.

“I’m in shock,’’ one neighbor said. “She seems like a very nice person.’’

I see people in and out coming over here . . . sometimes many in one day,’’ said Mohammed Azad, 32, who owns a restaurant in the building where Gristina allegedly operated her brothel. “I always see young fashionable women, always under 30 . . . They don’t live here.’’

The petite, blond Gristina was caught on wiretaps claiming “to have made millions over the 15 or so years she has been in business as a madam,” Linehan said, according to newly released transcripts of the Feb. 23 hearing.

At least once, the married mom, who lives with her family in upstate Monroe, arranged a sexual encounter for a client in which “minors were involved,” Linehan said.

He cited information from at least one eyewitness account — a confidential informant who was one of Gristina’s own hookers.

Known in the industry as “Anna Scotland,’’ the Scottish native was nailed as part of a five-year investigation by the DA’s Official Corruption Unit, which probes NYPD and other uniformed officers for possible misconduct.

At one point, Gristina was caught on tape saying her law-enforcement pals were “poised to help her out, to let her know if there is trouble on the front that she needs to be concerned about, particularly back during the Eliot Spitzer investigation,” Linehan said, referring to the former governor’s hooker scandal.

An arrest warrant was issued for Gristina last month.

When cops arrived at her upstate home,, where she rescues wild pigs and raises pit bulls, they didn’t find anyone — but a wild boar chased a police officer around, the sources said.

Gristina was nabbed soon after in the company of a Morgan Stanley banker and “close friend’’ whom she was trying to get to help her expand her operation through the Internet, the court papers revealed.

She was held on a $2 million bond or $1 million cash bail.

Gristina’s Monroe neighbors were stunned to learn of her bust.

“I’m in shock,’’ one neighbor said. “She seems like a very nice person.’’



Soccer Mom Accused Of Running Brothel: MyFoxNY.com

8 comments:

  1. If you Google Anna Gristina, there's a person of her name who owns property in Monroe...hmm!

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  2. omg
    Aron Teitelbaum your screwed royaly, maybee Berele Belzer can find it in his heart to help you get out o this one.
    Rebbetzin Anna trains Kalahs in Monroe in the PRU URVU college.
    METZIZA BE'PEH REBB#E

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  3. So is this another lie from Deborah Feldman????
    Or is there really property owned by this Madame in Satmars sin city?? I heard she does meziza be'pe according to the satmar custom.
    Love
    Yoily Kokosh

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  4. oy dis lady is a doll she is so nice and she's frum
    Dedicated Client

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  5. Monroe is a big town big deal a million people own property there

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  6. It's not a Jewish name

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  7. "It's not a Jewish name" Really ! what name should she use her real one? Rebbetzin would sound so much better, then she could also be endorsed by the local Rabbi with a heavy artillery HECHSHER.

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    1. Oy!!! K'Vod Kedushas Moreinu V'Rabeinu Putzer Rebbe you are truly so great, Klal Yisrael thanks your Holiness for allowing all us wacko hasddics to have premarital sex in the local mikvah. The edible condoms are now cholov yisrael glatt to allow easy metziza bepeh. Your Rabbinical endorsement of Hookers will boost our towns economy.
      your humble sex toy, ben beitzim

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