If looks could kill, she’d be on the hook for more than just promoting prostitution.
The gorgeous accused accomplice of alleged “Hockey Mom Madam” Anna Gristina wore a purse-lipped frown and glared into the middle distance as she was swarmed by reporters and news photographers at a routine court appearance today.
Jaynie Mae Baker is not ready for her closeup, her defense lawyer explained to his client’s scrum of some two dozen media pursuers — so many, that a pack of ignored Occupy Wall Street protesters began heckling sarcastically from the sidewalk of Manhattan Supreme Court, “Ooooh, a big story!”
“This is not fun,” explained her lawyer, Robert Gottlieb, after Baker ducked into a chauffeured town car.
“She takes it very seriously,” he said of Baker, 30, of Williamsburg, the accused “Other Madam” in the multi-million-dollar Upper East Side escort that has sparked headlines for the past month.
“Her entire life has been in a state of upheaval for the last few weeks” since her March 13 arrest, Gottlieb said. “She’s facing serious criminal charges, plus all the unwanted attention is something she is not enjoying.”
Baker appeared in court sporting conservative baby-blue trousers, and a bookish paisley vest over a filmy beige blouse. Her hair has been darkened to dirty blonde from the strawberry blonde of her first court appearance.
The quickie appearance consisted of lead prosecutor Charles Linehan turning over to Gottlieb a 1/3-inch stack of sealed documents, plus an agreement to call the case again on April 20.
Prosecutors say Baker helped Gristina run an escort service offering hookers for up to $2,000 per visit, and insist that Gristina was caught on wiretaps boasting of being protected by a cadre of corrupt cops and wealthy johns.
But despite the lengthy investigation of Gristina by Manhattan DA’s official misconduct unit — an investigation stretching back by some accounts to 2004 — no arrests of johns or cops have surfaced in the case.
Baker remains free on $200,000 cash bail. Gristina remains at Rikers, unable to post bail that has been set at a whopping $2 million bond or $1 million cash.