Accused Upper East Side madam Anna Gristina offered a teasing peek into her little black book yesterday — filing court papers that mention five prominent male “friends” she says Manhattan prosecutors leaned hard on her to cooperate against.
Gristina’s lips are sealed as to their names. But the identifying clues in her filing are sure to set off a ribald round of “Name That John” in the top circles of international banking, real estate and sports-team ownership.
The mom of four — who lives in upstate Monroe when she’s not being held on Rikers Island — offered her descriptions in a sworn affidavit, filed by defense attorney Norm Pattis as part of his explosive motion to toss the lone, low-level-felony promoting-prostitution charge against her.
“This is no ordinary vice prosecution,” Pattis writes in the filing, which alleges that investigators with the Manhattan DA’s official-corruption unit committed “egregious prosecutorial misconduct” after pulling her, screaming, off a Midtown street during her February arrest.
After taking her into custody, investigators committed the criminal-justice version of extortion, the filings say, telling Gristina that she didn’t need a lawyer, despite her requests for one — and that she could go free if she flipped on five powerful men they believed were connected to her alleged multimillion-dollar call-girl ring.
Mystery man No. 1, Gristina writes, “is a wealthy financier with interests in real estate and professional sports” that an unidentified male prosecutor pressed her about.
Of mystery man No. 2 she writes: “The male prosecutor asked me about another man, who is a member of a politically prominent family in Manhattan.”
Then there’s mystery man No. 3: “The male prosecutor also asked me about a prominent international banker,” she wrote in the affidavit.
A fourth unidentified man is “a prominent Manhattan lawyer,” Gristina wrote.
A fifth man, she wrote, is an accountant, described in the affidavit as the confidential informant who has been cooperating against her.
Only after Gristina refused to cooperate against the men — and against five more men not referred to in the papers, who sources say she was also grilled about — did prosecutors file the indictment against her, Pattis says.
The filing also reveals new details about the spicy “sting” at Gristina’s alleged East 78th Street “brothel” that got her arrested — an alleged two-hooker romp performed at taxpayer expense for the pleasure of an undercover cop one summer night last year.
With her accountant allegedly acting as an intermediary, Gristina sent two slender, long-haired brunettes to meet with the cop “john” at the alleged brothel on July 27, 2011.
Seven months after the romp — which the fake “john” watched, but did not participate in — Gristina and the two women were busted. The women have been identified in their own arrest paperwork as Mhairiangelo Bottone and Catherine DeVries, and sources say they are cooperating against Gristina.
“The officer and two women met for what amounted to a live peep show for which the officer paid some $2,000; the officer left before his performance was required,” Pattis writes in the filing.
The Manhattan DA’s Office declined to comment on the filing. It has until July 3 to file a response.