The private investigator linked to the Upper East Side madam case said he only talked with Anna Gristina about a legitimate business venture.
Vinny Parco told The Post Tuesday that he first encountered Gristina last year at a networking event for the Website sugardaddy.com.
“I had never met her before, she was very cordial,” Parco said.
The PI said they discussed working together on an online dating service for professionals.
“She was forming a match-making Website and I was going to do the vetting of the prospective members,” Parco said, adding that he was planning to verify people’s jobs and titles.
“But it never got off the ground and I never really did anything,” he said, adding that he never received money from Gristina.
Parco said he was hired in 2006 by Andrea Schwartz, a madam convicted of running a brothel, to track down Gristina so she could testify on Schwartz’s behalf.
But he wasn’t able to locate her and didn’t meet her until years later.
Parco has been summoned by the Manhattan DA’s Public Corruption Unit to testify before a grand jury Friday and talk about the alleged high price sex ring.
Parco declined to discuss Gristina’s case.