Alleged madam sat for jailhouse interview from Rikers Island
Comments (14)BY PHILIP CAULFIELD / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, June 14, 2012, 8:29 AM
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Alleged brother operator Anna Gristina appeared on the 'Today' show from Rikers Island on Thursday. WATCH VIDEO BELOW
Alleged Soccer Mom Madam Anna Gristina says the publicity surrounding her arrest has torn her family to shreds.
In a jailhouse interview with NBC's "Today" show, Gristina said she's had it relatively easy on Rikers Island because she’s shielded from the press.
“I think it's my family who suffer, because I'm able to at least hide in here from it all," she told the TV station’s Matt Lauer.
"My children, they get followed by the press,” she said. “My husband almost got run off the road yesterday by press."
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Gristina also described the terror she felt when she was arrested on the street on Feb. 22 and then whisked to a government building on Wooster St. in Manhattan.
"I thought I was being abducted because they didn't look like police,” she said.
"I screamed on the street for people to please call 911 because I had no idea,” Gristina said. “You know, I'm walking down the street, and I'm being pulled off the street.”
Gristina was accused of running a high-end brothel out an upper East Side apartment building and charged with one count of promoting prostitution.
She has been jailed ever since.
But the 44-year-old got one step closer to freedom on Tuesday when an appellate court found that her $2 million bond or $1 million cash bail was unjustifiably high and reduced it to $250,000 bond or $125,000 cash.
That means if Gristina can raise the lower amount and prove the money came from legal means, she could be free by the end of the week.
She would have to wear a monitoring bracelet as a condition of her release.
Sitting beside her lawyer, Norman Pattis, Gristina insisted to Lauer that she ran a completely legal service to set up married men with dates.
"Very much like Match.com," Pattis said.
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