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A SCOTTISH mother accused of running a multi-million dollar prostitution ring in New York has failed in an attempt to have psychic Uri Geller’s son appointed as her lawyer.
Anna Gristina, originally from Kirkliston, had applied to have Daniel Geller appointed as one of her attorneys. However, Manhattan Supreme court judge Juan Merchan refused the request on the grounds that Mr Geller – who has only been licensed as an attorney in New York since March – does not have enough experience.
Gristina was allowed to fire her current lawyer Gary Greenwald and replace him with Norman Pattis. Mr Geller said he would assist Mr Pattis.
Gristina, 44, is accused of running a brothel for the past 15 years and has been remanded in custody since February. She has now had nine different lawyers, and was warned by Judge Merchan that he was unimpressed by the repeated changes.

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Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1-million countersuit against the New York hotel maid at the centre of last year’s explosive sexual assault allegations, a report said Tuesday.
A year after the scandal broke, the former French Socialist party presidential hopeful accused Nafissatou Diallo of “knowingly and intentionally making a false report to law-enforcement authorities,” the New York Post said Tuesday citing court documents.
The countersuit lodged Monday at Bronx Supreme Court claims the maid’s “malicious and wanton false allegation” undermined Strauss-Kahn’s reputation and damaged “other professional opportunities,” said the filing.
More recently, Strauss-Kahn has been implicated in a prostitution ring probe in France.
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THE Scottish ‘madam’ accused of running a prostitution ring from her home in New York has failed in her attempt to have Uri Geller’s son represent her in court.
Anna Gristina, 44, had applied to Manhattan Supreme Court to have Daniel Geller, 31, appointed as one of her attorneys.
Yesterday, the judge refused that request but did allow her to fire her current lawyer, Gary Greenwald, and replace him with Norman Pattis.
But judge Juan Merchan told Mrs Gristina that he was unimpressed by her repeated change of legal representation. He pointed out she has now had nine different lawyers represent or attempt to represent her.
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Mrs Gristina, a mother-of-four from Edinburgh, was arrested in February accused of running a multi-million dollar brothel for the past 15 years while living a double life as a “soccer mom”.

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The move came on the anniversary of the incident.
Strauss-Kahn denies all wrongdoing in the legal action and accuses the maid of “knowingly and intentionally making a false report to the police”.
Nafissatou Diallo alleged that Strauss-Khan forced her to have oral sex and tried to rape her in his luxury suite in a Manhattan hotel room. Prosecutors later dropped the charges after losing confidence in Diallo’s credibility. She has nonetheless launched a civil suit against him.
The former international financier is seeking damages for his arrest,the loss of his job as managing director of the IMF and damage to his reputation.
Since his return to France the man called
for short has been put under formal investigation in connection with a prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille.

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… As a direct result of her malicious and wanton false accusation, Mr. Strauss-Kahn suffered … substantial harm to his professional and personal reputation in the United States and throughout the world,” says his Bronx court filing, written by attorneys William W. Taylor III, Hugh Campbell and others. It was first reported by the New York Post.
It was submitted two weeks after the same court rejected his argument that diplomatic immunity should shield him from Diallo’s suit, a ruling he may yet appeal.
Diallo’s lawyers said Strauss-Kahn’s defamation claim an example of the “misogynistic attitude” of a man who now faces preliminary charges of being involved in a hotel prostitution ring in France. As of last week, French investigators also studying accusations that Strauss-Kahn may have been involved in a rape during a sex party in a Washington hotel in 2010. Separately, a French writer accused him last year of having tried to rape her during a 2003 interview, an accusation prosecutors said was too old to try. He denies all the allegations.

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Published on Wednesday 16 May 2012 01:56
A SCOTTISH-born alleged New York madam was yesterday urged to stick with her legal representatives, after a judge chastised her for going through nine lawyers in three months.
Anna Gristina, 44, originally from Kirkliston, near Edinburgh, has called on a succession of attorneys – including the son of famed spoon-bender Uri Geller – as she seeks to defend herself against allegations of running a high-end Manhattan brothel for more than 15 years.
Judge Juan Merchan warned that any incoming counsel would not be given extra time to familiarise themselves with the case.
He said: “This is your trial team. If you seek to substitute counsel, or fire counsel, the court will have to take a long hard look at that.”

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Strauss-Kahn’s court filing comes two weeks after Bronx Supreme Court Justice Douglas McKeon rejected his motion to throw out Diallo’s civil lawsuit on the grounds he had diplomatic immunity at the time of the incident.
The countersuit cites claims by prosecutors that Diallo proved to be an unreliable witness, after they concluded she had lied about her past and offered varying accounts of her behavior in the moments that followed the incident.
“It should come as no surprise that Mr Strauss-Kahn is asserting claims against Ms. Diallo for her false allegations against him,” one of Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers, William Taylor, said in a statement. “She is directly responsible for his being arrested, imprisoned, and subjected to extraordinary pain, anguish and expense.”
Strauss-Kahn’s legal troubles have persisted since his return to France after the dismissal of the criminal case. In March, French authorities announced he was under formal investigation in connection with a prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille.

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That was Elaine May’s hilarious “Adult Entertainment,” which was staged by her longtime partner, the great movie director Stanley Donen (“Singing in the Rain,” “Charade”).
“Adult Entertainment,” which ran off-Broadway in 2002, told the story of a group of porn-industry veterans who decide to produce a serious, art-house movie, albeit X-rated. They hire a Yale Drama School graduate to polish the script. He gives them a master class in dramatic literature, leading them through discussions of “Death of a Salesman,” “Our Town” and “The Jew of Malta.”
Those scenes were some of the funniest May ever wrote, and the actors — Danny Aiello, Jeannie Berlin, Rick Elice (who went on to write “Jersey Boys”) — played them with comic gusto.
If you don’t know “Adult Entertainment,” head straight to the Drama Book Shop, pick up a copy and laugh yourself silly.
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In the meantime, if “The Performers” is even half as funny as “Adult Entertainment,” it should do just fine.

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Accused NYC madam makes legal switch — her 3rdMay 15, 2012 20:23 GMT
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NEW YORK (AP) — The accused suburban-mom madam of a multimillion-dollar Manhattan escort service has moved on to a new legal team — her fourth.
A judge agreed Tuesday to let Anna Gristina make her third legal switch. She’s now represented by seasoned Connecticut civil rights and criminal defense lawyer Norman Pattis.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office says Gristina peddled prostitutes for 15 years and bragged that she had law-enforcement contacts. Gristina’s lawyers have said she was merely starting a matchmaking business.
She’s pleaded not guilty to promoting prostitution.
Altogether, nine lawyers have appeared on her case at various times. One former Gristina attorney, Peter Gleason, offered to put up his apartment for her $2 million bail.

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YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Hackensack undercover detective answering an ad for an escort service run from a Polifly Road apartment
followed instructions to go to the back of the building, punch in a code and head to a designated apartment. There, he
arrested two accused prostitutes and a man said to be their pimp.
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With backups waiting outside, a woman later identified as 19-year-old Lanaysia Limehouse of Elizabeth offered the investigator an hour’s worth of sex for $100, police said.
He gave her the money, identified himself and arrested her, along with two other people.
Limehouse, charged with prostitution, was released without bail pending a Municipal Court hearing.
Charged with promoting prostitution was Christopher J. Griffith, 33, of Hackensack.
He was being held on $20,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail.

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