Miss Gristina said that some of her friends were young models, adding: “That’s probably who they’re seeing I don’t know. But I do let girls use it.” Denying that the apartment was a brothel, she told an interviewer from the New York Post: “Have you seen it? It’s hardly luxurious. It’s a small place that we’ve had for five or six years.”
Prosecutors allege that they have secret recordings of Miss Gristina taken over a five-year period in which she is said to boast of having earned $10 million (£6.4 million) from prostitution in the last 15 years.
A number of high profile bankers, lawyers, real estate executive and celebrities are said to have been among her clients.
She has been held on $3 million (£1.9 million) bail, amid fears that she would use her British passport to flee overseas. Prosecutors also allege that Miss Gristina has funnelled much of her cash out of the country to avoid detection if arrested.
Miss Gristina, 44, who lives two hours from Manhattan in rural upstate New York, where she runs a pot-bellied pig sanctuary with her third husband, insists that she has done nothing illegal. She is due back in court in May.
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