Scots madam linked to Epstein loses court bid

Anna Gristina says she was forced into guilty plea in US

- By Robert McAulay

A SCOTS former madam who claimed she was asked to provide women for Jeffrey Epstein has lost a court battle in a bid to overturn her conviction for promoting prostitution.

Anna Gristina, 57, launched an appeal claiming she was forced into a guilty plea.

Prosecutors had alleged that Gristina, originally of Kirkliston, West Lothian, made £6million from running a vice ring for affluent and influential men in New York’s plush Upper East Side.

The mother-of-four admitted a single charge of promoting prostitution and was sentenced to five years’ probation and time already served.