She went from booking call girls for Eliot Spitzer‘s favorite escort service to booking yogis upstate – for Uma Thurman’s parents.
The actress’ Buddhist folks last summer unknowingly hired Tanya Hollander – accused of arranging sex romps for the call-girl ring that serviced the former governor – to manage their upstate yoga center.
“We’re extremely troubled to learn of her problems only now, and especially troubled that she withheld what’s clearly pertinent information about her background,” said Birgitte Thurman, Uma’s mom.
“Clearly, had we been aware, we might have hired someone else,” she told The Phoenicia Times.
Hollander, 36, was ordered Wednesday to serve one year probation by a Manhattan federal court judge for her involvement in the Emperors Club VIP, which sent Ashley Dupre for a DC rendezvous with Spitzer.
Birgitte Thurman, who runs the Menla Mountain Retreat in the Catskills with her husband, Robert, called the hiring “an unfortunate situation.”
Hollander was hired in July under the name Tania Robyn Cyrlin.
“When we interviewed and hired her back in July, we had absolutely no idea that she had any involvement in such a thing,” Thurman told the paper.
“She was referred to us through contacts in [New York] as a capable administrator, and it’s an unfortunate situation for everyone since she’s been doing a very good job for us.”
Shortly after taking the job upstate, Hollander pleaded guilty to conspiracy in August.
Thurman did not say in the interview whether Hollander had been fired and did not return a call seeking comment.
Hollander, who fancies herself as a holistic health counselor, lives in upstate Rhinebeck. She is listed on the retreat’s Web site as the manager.
Hollander did not return a call for comment yesterday. Her voice mail said she was due back in the office yesterday after taking last week off.
She had faced up to 10 months behind bars, but a federal judge was lenient because she didn’t want to treat her more harshly than the other co-conspirators in the case, including Spitzer, who was spared of any criminal wrongdoing last month.
The feds were not seeking prison for Hollander but unsuccessfully asked for home detention of at least six months.