Soccer Mom-Madam has plead guilty to promoting prostitution in her huge prostitution operation. Click below for the story.
Soccer Mom madam Anna Gristina pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single count of promoting prostitution — just an hour after she swore she wouldn’t.
Gristina’s plea closes the little black book on a controversial case that prosecutors had hoped would blow the lid off a huge prostitution operation based out of E. 78th St. apartment.
Instead, they had to settle for Gristina pleading guilty to arranging some girl-on-girl action for a customer who turned out to be an undercover cop.
“I would gracefully like to take your plea,” Gristina told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan.
Gristina, dressed in a black outfit with a demure white top, spoke after prosecutors assured the judge that her caught-on-tape claims that there were cops who were protecting her were bunk.
Merchan agreed to the plea deal, but not before he gave her grief for bringing her 9-year-old son Nicholas to court.
Gristina will be sentenced to six months in prison in November. Because she’s already served four months in Rikers, she’s not likely to spend another day in jail. She will also be on probation for five years.
Before she arrived in court, Gristina insisted “there will be no plea today.”
“Yes, I’m going to court today,” she told the News. “I’m going to listen to the options. A trial is still a strong option.”
It was Gristina’s second court appearance since she was released from jail in June.
Last month, Merchan denied a motion by Gristina’s lawyer, Norman Pattis, to dismiss the sole charge against her.
But he also dealt prosecutors a blow by limiting the scope of their case.
Prosecutors have been investigating Gristina and her alleged hooker booker, Jaynie Mae Baker, for five years.
They contend the pair made millions peddling flesh — including underage girls — to big shots at an E. 78th St. brothel.
Merchan had said he would bar prosecutors from introducing evidence about any prior bawdy acts and he vowed to keep any trial focused on the single charge of promoting prostitution.As Pattis fought to get the charge against Gristina dismissed, he had argued that there was no crime because the cop just watched — and didn’t join in.
She was joined in court Tuesday by her husband, Kelvin Gorr, her 9-year-old, and another teen-aged son.
Baker has reportedly accepted a plea deal that could knock the 30-year-old blonde’s felony charge down to the equivalent of a jaywalking ticket.
Gristina was busted Feb. 22. She was ordered held on a staggering $2 million bail and spent four months in Rikers — even as Baker was freed after posting $100,000 bond.
