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UES madam had millionaire clients, led life of suburban mom

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She ferried her kids to band practice, attended parent-teacher conferences and cared for the family’s menagerie of rescued dogs and pot-bellied pigs.

But unlike other suburban housewives, Anna Gristina, 44, also allegedly worked as a high-end Upper East Side madam.

The stay-at-home mom of four catered to clientele with no less than $1 million in the bank while raking in piles of cash in more than 15 years in the industry, prosecutors charge.

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A drawn-looking Gristina yesterday was ordered held at Rikers on $2 million bond after prosecutors told a Manhattan Supreme Court judge that she was an extreme flight risk — and it surfaced that she had an alleged female hooker-booker partner, who is now on the lam.

In a day of explosive developments:

* An NYPD sergeant, Richard Wall, was ordered to appear today before the Internal Affairs Bureau with his memo book logging his work for the past five years after being seen making repeated trips in and out of the East 78th Street building that allegedly housed Gristina’s brothel.

* It was revealed that Gristina had a partner-in-crime, Manhattan “matchmaker” Jaynie Baker, who flew the coop before the two were indicted, sources said. The strawberry-blond Baker, 30, claimed to work for a legitimate Union Square dating service.

* A source said Gristina employed “Penthouse and Playboy models’’ to service clients who “were all millionaires except two billionaires — hedge-funders, CEOs and real-estate moguls.”

* The investment bank Morgan Stanley searched records of visitors at its New York offices to try to track down which of its bankers met with Gristina before her bust last month to allegedly discuss setting up an online prostitution service.

Today, Gristina’s attorney said he never asked her about a so-called black book.

Peter J. Gleason told “Good Day New York” that “as far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t exist.”

He says if the mom of four is found guilty of the charges, “it’s irrelevant to me if there’s a black book or note.”

Gleason says the prosecution has not shared with the defense team information about its allegations that the Monroe, woman peddled underage girls and had police protection.

He says the allegation she promoted sex with children was “a ploy” the police sometimes use “if they have a hostile client that they want to break.”

Sources said the petite, green-eyed Gristina spent years juggling her illicit work with a quiet, unassuming life in the ’burbs.

She lived on a secluded dirt road in upstate Monroe with her second husband, local Realtor Kelvin Gorr, 38, their 9-year-old son and Gristina’s three other children — a 17-year-old son and two daughters, ages 21 and 24.

Her first husband, Dario Gristina, is a Conservative-Republican candidate running for the state Assembly in Putnam County.

Sources said Gristina is a typical mom who wore jeans, a flannel shirt, baseball cap over her ponytail, old boots and a J. Crew barn jacket to drive her kids to school.

But between taking care of the kids and doing the grocery shopping, laundry and cooking dinner, she would allegedly bring home the bacon from her prostitution business using her cellphone and computer.

She worked out of her home because she wanted to be around for the kids, sources said.

“She hated coming to the city,’’ one source said.

“You would never know she had another business . . . She was honestly just a mom,” the source said.

Gristina’s husband said the children are shattered by their mother’s arrest.

The couple initially didn’t tell their 9-year-old about his mom being behind bars, and the boy thought she had died.

He wrote an emotional letter to her, saying. “Dear Mom, I know you’re in heaven, and I love you, and I’ll make sure to take care of all the animals,’’ Gorr recalled tearfully. “I’m glad I’m your son, and I think I’ll see you in heaven.’’

Gristina “cried as I told her about the letter,’’ he said.

The child has since been told she’s alive and, “He’s feeling better now,’’ Gorr said.

Gorr, who married Gristina 10 years ago in Las Vegas, wouldn’t address the criminal charges.

“But . . . there has never been any violence, any drugs or any underage girls. Never,’’ said Gorr. One of his brothers is a detective in Sullivan County, and his other brother a cop in Liberty, NY.

Gorr said the family lives on 200 leased acres with three rescued dogs and six rescued pot-bellied pigs: Gerty, Kevin, Iris, Willow, Alex and Wilbur.

Sources said Anna began her career as a alleged madam in New York after she and her sister fled to the city from their troubled home in Edinburgh, Scotland, as teens.

Known as “Anna Scotland’’ in the prostitution industry, she started with an office near Herald Square, and eventually moved as her business became more high-end, they said.

But she got antsy when then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer was brought down in a hooker scandal in 2008, sources said, with one adding, “She had a gut feeling that she was being watched.’’

That’s when she hoped to go legit with an online dating service for rich men, they said.

“It was all about her moving on with her life . . . She wanted out’’ of prostitution, one source said.

But she didn’t end her illegal business completely because of the extra money, sources said.

She and Baker offered “the gold standard of escort services,’’ one source said. “These were high-end models who cost $2,000 a visit — and were worth every penny.’’

The teetotaling Gristina was adamant: no strippers — “she thought they were too jaded’’ — and no drugs or booze.

Gristina also abhorred the idea of underage prostitution — making it even more shocking that she would now be accused by authorities of at least once using a minor as a hooker.

It was a cash-only business to eliminate any damning paper trail, sources said.

Mark Garrett, 40, who lives near the alleged brothel, said, “I saw limos [there]. The driver would stay in the car. I’d see gentlemen walk in there, very well-dressed . . . A lot of attractive women were coming and going from there . . . a lot of European-type women, mid- to late 20s.’’

A business acquaintance of Baker’s said that as far as she knows, she is in Southern California. “She seems like a sweetheart,” the woman said.

The women’s case originally was referred to the DA’s corruption unit because of allegations that an NYPD cop was involved, sources said. That cop, believed to be a friend, later retired.

The NYPD later learned of the second cop, Wall, after a man who lives next to the brothel gave The Post his last name and badge number.

Once, “I saw him walking out here to a police car, and I went up to him, and I said, ‘What the hell are you doing?’ And he stands there and looks at me and walks away,” the neighbor said.

“The next day, two Hispanic guys came up to me and shoved me and told me to mind my own f–king business. I called police and told them what happened.

“The cops came over and talked to the two Hispanic guys and came by and [told me], ‘Let me explain something to you. Assault means you have to show assault,’ ” the resident said.

He didn’t have marks on him, and they said, “We don’t see a problem, so be a man, and just mind your own business.”

An NYPD spokeswoman said Wall may have gone to the building “in uniform while assigned to the 19th Precinct from 2006 to 2011.”

Additional reporting by Dan Mangan, Kate Sheehy, Kevin Fasick,Larry Celona and Liz Sadler