‘Caring’ mom a millionaire madam?

NEW YORK— Prosecutors say she’s an arrogant, multimillion-dollar madam who boasted of ties to law enforcement and stashed cash to flee if authorities tried to close in on her.

But Anna Gristina’s advocates portrayed her Tuesday as a dedicated suburban mom, animal rescuer and former real estate broker who was working on building an online dating service. Jailed on a sevenfigure bail on a single charge of promoting prostitution, she’s a target of a sensationalized case, they said.

“A caring mother of four has been slapped with a $2 million bond,” lawyer Peter J. Gleason, said after a judge refused to lower the bail.

The bespectacled 44-year-old looked glum and tried to turn away from the news cameras clustered in the courtroom for her brief appearance. She was arrested Feb. 22, but news of the case broke with a splash Monday. She has pleaded not guilty.

Her husband, Kelvin Gorr, told the New York Daily News that he was “heartbroken” about the case.

“We are just a great family and my wife means everything to me,” Gorr, who has been married to Gristina for 10 years, told the newspaper.

But prosecutors say she was heard during a five-year investigation saying she’d made millions of dollars in some 15 years of arranging trysts.

Manhattan assistant district attorney Charles Linehan said Tuesday that she: has wealthy clients and friends who “have an interest in not having this case go forward” and could help her run; was heard saying she would flee if trouble was coming, and evidence suggests she has money aside for that purpose.