From Soccer Mom To Manhattan Madam! The Shocking Story Of Anna Gristina
March 8 2012, Published 9:30 a.m. ET
By Leah Ornstein - Breaking Celebrity News Style & Beauty Editor and Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
She is not your typical soccer mom!
In one of the most shocking sex-for-sale scandals of the decade, a mother-of-four was arrested last month amidst allegations that she has been running a multi-million dollar brothel, and Breaking Celebrity News has the intimate details.
Anna Gristina, 44, appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday where evidence of her alleged prostitution operation was presented to the judge, who ordered that she be held at Rikers on $2 million bond as prosecutors consider her to be an extreme flight risk, reported the New York Post, which featured the scandal on the cover of their paper on Wednesday.
Dressed in a matronly fitted jacket and glasses, the middle-aged mother who lives a suburban life in Monroe County, looked nothing like your ‘average’ madam as she sat in the courtroom listening to the prosecutors describe her alleged double life.
The stay-at-home mom allegedly catered to high-class clients from her Upper East Side location, and had saved away $1 million in the bank after more than 15 years in the booming business.
Police are currently looking for a ‘hooker-booker’ employee, matchmaker Jaynie Baker, 30, who allegedly dealt with clients’ appointments but has gone on the run since Gristina’s arrest.
According to the Post, a source said Gristina employed “Penthouse and Playboy models’’ to service clients who “were all millionaires except two billionaires — hedge-funders, CEOs and real-estate moguls.”
The investment bank Morgan Stanley searched records of visitors at its New York offices to try to track down which of its bankers met with Gristina before her bust last month to allegedly discuss setting up an online prostitution service.
Along with the rich and successful New York businessmen being serviced, a NYPD sergeant is under suspicion of being on Gristina’s client list. Richard Wall, was ordered to appear on Wednesday before the Internal Affairs Burea