A Scottish former New York madam has claimed she refused a proposal to supply girls for billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein. Anna Gristina, 54, spent 4 months on remand within the infamous Rikers Island jail in 2012 after she was caught in an undercover FBI sting.
Prosecutors alleged that Gristina, who grew up in Kirkliston, West Lothian, made £6 million from operating a vice ring for prosperous and influential males in New York's Higher East Facet. She admitted a single cost of selling prostitution and was sentenced to 5 years' probation and time served.
The mother-of-four, who insisted she ran a professional matchmaking service, has now stated she as soon as acquired a name from Epstein's former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell to investigate about her providers. Maxwell, 60, was jailed for 20 years in June after being discovered responsible of the enticement of minors and intercourse trafficking of underage women for Epstein.
Gristina informed how she refused to take care of Epstein, who killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 whereas awaiting a intercourse trafficking trial, after listening to rumours he abused younger women.
Talking to US web site Radar On-line, she stated: "She referred to as up from London to say she had a gentleman pal in Florida who likes firm, however he likes youthful women and she or he heard I used to be very respected and had the perfect fashions within the trade.
"I used to be at a hockey sport with my youngsters when the decision got here in.
"Afterward, I did somewhat digging and my pal informed me to remain away.
"If I had identified extra on the time I'd have turned him in."
Gristina has at all times stated she by no means pressured anyone to have intercourse with purchasers.
She has claimed her responsible plea was "coerced" and is at present attempting to have her conviction overturned.
Following her arrest, involving a sting with an undercover officer posing as a possible consumer, Gristina was held at Rikers Island and her bail was set at $2million.
She pleaded responsible in September 2012 to a felony rely of selling prostitution in trade for a sentence of six months in jail, which amounted to time she had already served.
Manhattan prosecutors stated her consumer record included New York's very rich and linked. None of her alleged purchasers have been named publicly or charged, nevertheless, and she or he refused at hand over her contacts guide.
She now lives quietly in a modest home in New York state, the place she tends pigs and writes youngsters's books.
Final 12 months, a TV film based mostly on her story referred to as Soccer Mother Madam was broadcast on US TV.
She was performed by Jana Kramer, a Michigan-born nation singer and actress greatest identified in Britain for the teenager drama One Tree Hill.
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