A catfight erupted in the courthouse Wednesday when “Soccer Mom Madam” Anna Gristina accused her hooker booker of betraying her to prosecutors.
“Jayne, you broke my heart,” Gristina yelled at Jaynie Mae Baker, after the latter copped a plea to a misdemeanor promoting prostitution charge to avoid jail. “You broke my heart, Jaynie!”
Her voice breaking, Gristina trailed Baker through the Manhattan Supreme Court corridor to an elevator bank.
“You interacted with my family, my children… my animal rescue,” Gristina complained. “How could you?”
Baker, a glamorous blonde dressed to the nines in tight black jeans and a gray tweed jacket, had managed to keep her composure until then.
But with those words, Baker finally rounded on her former friend.
“I didn’t,” Baker whispered and climbed on an elevator.
Gristina, dressed in a mink coat, jeans and tan Ugg boots, seemingly couldn’t comprehend and began bawling.
“She said, I didn’t,” Gristina, now a brunette, said as she rode down in another elevator. “I don’t understand.”
Outside the courthouse, Gristina read a statement and ripped into Baker again.
“What information has Miss Baker been whispering into the ears of eager prosecutors?” she said. “Whose secrets has she been telling? I don’t believe for one moment — nor should any reasonable person believe — that Miss Baker hasn’t been playing kiss and tell.”
Gristina, who last year tried to close the little black book on her sensational case by pleading guilty to a single count of promoting prostitution, insisted she was “crucified in the press worldwide.”
“My family was vilified in a public witch hunt while Miss Baker played private footsie with Cy Vance,” Gristina said, referring to the district attorney.
“Just what have they been talking about all this time? It’s double standards.”
Vance’s office declined comment on Gristina’s apparently pre-planned outburst — or the 45-year-old mother of four’s broadside against the D.A.’s office.
Baker’s lawyer, Robert Gottlieb, insisted his client “conducted herself with class.”
“We are thankful that she was permitted to plead to the lesser charge and certainly thankful that the judge agreed to sentence her to the conditional discharge,” he said. “She fully intends to get on with her life. She accepted responsibility and has a very, very bright future ahead.”
Prosecutors had hoped to blow the lid off a huge prostitution operation they claimed Gristina and Baker had run for five years out of an E. 78th St. apartment.
Instead, they had to settle for Gristina pleading guilty to arranging some girl-on-girl action for a john who was actually an undercover.
Gristina was stewing in the 16th floor courtroom before Baker, who had previously pled guilty to felony promoting prostitution in a pre-arranged deal, got the reduced charge.
Claiming she was seeking closure, Gristina said she was there “to heal from the betrayal of somebody that was my friend.”
“She interacted with my family, I opened my door to her,” she said. “She helped me volunteer one time at my animal sanctuary. It was so intimate.”
Gristina claimed Baker ratted her out to prosecutors and that she now feels “sad” about her ex-pal. She fell silent as Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan dispensed justice.
“At this time the court will impose a conditional discharge upon Ms. Baker,” Merchan said. “Thank you. I wish you all the best Ms. Baker. Good luck to you.”
Minutes later, the fireworks erupted.
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