The "Millionaire Madam's" right-hand woman has turned herself into authorities today and is expected to be arraigned later this afternoon. 30-year-old Jaynie Mae Baker worked as a matchmaker to the wealthy and also allegedly helped accused madam Anna Gristina secure high-profile clients. DNAinfo notes that Baker hasn't been seen since Gristina's arrest several weeks ago. It is unclear if her attorney, Robert Gottlieb, is attempting to broker a deal with prosecutors. more ›

A 44-year-old mother of four who allegedly made millions running a high-end brothel out of an Upper East Side apartment has been arrested and indicted. DNAinfo reports that Anna Gristina, who is a British National and owns property in Canada, was arrested in the middle of a meeting with a Morgan Stanley banker after a five-year investigation, because the public corruption unit believed she was a flight risk. Gristina allegedly bragged during the Eliot Spitzer investigation that she had sources in law enforcement who would alert her and protect her from government scrutiny. more ›

A Mexican man pleaded guilty yesterday to being part of an international sex trafficking ring that spanned from Mexico to Queens. Angel Cortez Granados, 25, admitted to seducing a woman, then bringing her to the U.S. as his girlfriend, only to force her into sex slavery: “I threatened her, telling her that she was alone in this country, that nobody would help her, so that she would work as a prostitute." He said he threatened to call the cops on her if she didn't comply: “Since she didn’t have any papers, (I was) scaring her with the possibility of going to jail,” he said. more ›

Spending your lunchbreak in Midtown with a prostitute just got a little harder: the Elk Hotel, one of the last pay-by-the-hour flophouses that used to be so prevalent around Times Square, has bedded its last strung-out pilgrim. Jeremiah's Vanishing New York acted on a tip and called to confirm: "We're closed. No more hotel no more. For good." We asked the man who answered the phone at the Elk what would replace it. "No idea, no clue. Have a nice day." more ›

The oldest profession is alive and well on the streets of New York. Though these days you more often hear about working girls trafficked as sex slaves being taxied around and sold online, old-fashioned street walkers still walk the night. So now the NYPD is giving a new preventative tactic a shot (to a degree and with some criticism): arresting the johns. more ›

A 24-year old woman who spent several years as a sex slave discussed the seedy underworld of NYC sex trafficking. The woman—whom the Daily News identifies as Sofia—was smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico and forced to work as a “delivery girl” prostitute riding from john to john in a livery cab. “I feel like I went to thousands of homes. How many in a day, I wouldn’t be able to tell you. All I know is that there were too many,” she said. “In some of them there would be as many as eight, 10 men.” more ›

A NJ man is accused of impersonating a cop and threatening hookers with jail time if they wouldn't give him free sex. Warren D. Taylor, 32, was caught after police tracked down a cell phone number he had given to one of the women he allegedly attacked; Taylor was allegedly taking a page from real cops, and trying to become her pimp. more ›

Last night Stephen Colbert took a moment to analyze yesterday's NY Post cover, which featured a woman in a red dress seductively smoking a cigarette next to the headline "Crazy stox like a hooker's drawers, UP, DOWN, UP." As Colbert explains, it makes perfect sense, and he thinks more NY Post covers should explore this prostitute/"drawers" analogy: more ›

If you're wondering why stretch Hummers' tinted windows seem extra black today, it's because a Sheepshead Bay prostitution ring that billed clients more than $10,000 a night has been busted. The Post reports that 17 people and 5 corporations have been indicted in the sting. The service also offered cocaine with their pricey ladies, because when you're paying 10 large a night, you better be able to act as quickly as you can. more ›

It appears that Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser is calling the New York Post on their claims that she is a "hooker": the 32-year-old Guinean immigrant is suing the paper and five of its journalists for libel. The Post reported that the woman was having sex for money at taxpayers' expense, by having "multiple 'dates' and encounters" in her hotel room "on the DA's dime." more ›

A new 700-page book takes an in-depth look at the rise of ESPN, with lots of stops along the way for strange anecdotes about the "glorified frat house." Check out some excerpts below. more ›

More than 400 cops could be facing disciplinary charges in a massive ticket-fixing probe which has been going on for the past few months. But in the course of the probe, investigators have uncovered other more serious crimes captured on wiretaps, including conversations in which cops arranged to meet and pay for dates with hookers. We imagine that that's not just a normal courtesy. more ›

Ever wonder where the term "hooker" comes from? Of course you have, and you probably figured it had to have roots in New York City, too. According to Ephemeral NY, it all has to do with Corlears Hook, which was named in the 17th century for the Van Corlears family. By the 1830s it became the city’s most notorious red-light district, and the women of Corlears Hook were "the lowest and most debased of their class. They were flashy, untidy, and covered with tinsel and brass jewelry. Their dresses are short, arms and necks bare, and their appearance is as disgusting as can be conceived.” (Guessing this didn't make it into the Gentleman's Directory of 19th Century Brothels.) more ›

We already knew that Facebook is the best way for ambitious women to meet jocks, but it's quickly becoming the best way to meet prostitutes! The Daily News discovered Sudhir Venkatesh's month-old (but still compelling) look at the changing face of NYC's sex trade in Wired, which we already noted at the start of the month. But it's never a bad time to learn that 83 percent of the 290 NYC-based prostitutes he interviewed have a Facebook page! more ›

A Morris Park man who was arrested and accused of raping a prostitute may have a long history of abuse against ladies of the night. Michael Fishbein is on trial for the alleged torture, beating and rape of a 27-year-old prostitute at the end of last month. When she met him at his apartment at 837 Neill Avenue, he held a box cutter to her and allegedly said, “You’re not leaving. You’re going to take your clothes off or I’m going to cut them off. I’ll kill you.” more ›

A state judge has ruled that a 77-year-old Bay Ridge tax lawyer must pay back taxes after wrongfully deducting more than $300,000 for prostitutes, porn, sex toys and erotic massages. After the verdict, the defendant William Halby told the Post, "I live a solitary life. I have no social life. I needed that release." So he dutifully documented each liaison in a notebook titled "Tax Journal," in case he ever got audited. Turns out that in 2002 alone, Halby deducted $111,364 for "therapeutic sex" and massages "to relieve osteoarthritis and enhance erectile function through frequent orgasm." He argued that the write-offs were necessary medical expenses. But because "significant portions" of his sex therapy was, you know, illegal, they can't be written off. The state auditor also argued that "in addition to being illegal in New York State, these expenses are not substantiated with receipts." more ›

There was plenty of buzz Monday about Radar's investigative report on $2,000 an hour hipster hookers, but that wasn't the week's only close-up on the oldest profession. A bit further down market, to say the least, the Villager's Laurie Mittelmann pals around with transgender street walkers in the West Village: "While shoes may also pain the feet of males and females, underwear can present unique problems for pre-operation transgender women. They want foxy little numbers, but still need to cover bulging male genitalia." And just like the author of the Radar story, Mittelmann also turns down a paranoid john who approached her for "'rocks and sex.' Apparently, he thought there was a chance this reporter was an undercover cop. 'You’re either going to hook me up with some fun, or hook me up in cuffs,' he said, licking his lips and kneading his pants." Demonstrating enormous self-control, Mittelmann somehow resisted his charms. more ›

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer seems to have turned the corner after resigning from his Albany office in the middle of a prostitution scandal. And instead of whiling away his summer at the beach, the Steamroller is planning on establishing an investment fund that will focus on turning people's failed dreams into cold hard cash for himself. more ›

Accused assistant to Murray Hill Madame Kristin Davis, Grace O'Toole, turned herself in yesterday, perhaps realizing that escape from both the NYPD and the NY Media was an impossible mission. After her alleged boss was arrested and jailed on $2 million bail for running a prostitution ring linked to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, O'Toole took off, although she was described very accurately by someone who witnessed her flight as wearing over-sized sunglasses, and carrying a travel tote and pet carrier. Cops had her Bronx apartment and her mother's NJ home staked out, and obviously the media weren't going to let the alleged call-girl ring back office operator evade attention, if not justice. more ›

New York Ranger forward Sean Avery may be on thin ice with any woman he's currently seeing, as his name popped up in the spreadsheets of Murray Hill madame Kristin "Billie" Davis. The distaff pimp was arrested after being linked to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer--one-time state attorney general and longtime whore connoisseur. Avery denies that he knows Davis or ever used a prostitute, laughing off the incident as a practical joke by someone familiar with his high profile and playboy lifestyle. Avery has been attached to supermodel Rachel Hunter and actress Elisha Cuthbert. The hockey player is just one of many high-profile clients listed in Davis' computer records. more ›

A man and three women were arrested by the feds for overseeing an intercontinental prostitution ring catering to the upper crust of New York, Miami, LA, and Europe. more ›