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Charges dropped against Anna Gristina ‘hooker’
October 7, 2013

She’s off the hook.

The prostitution case against seductress Mhairiangelo Bottone — whose girl-on-girl sex show for an undercover cop at an East 78th Street brothel led to soccer-mom madam Anna Gristina’s arrest — was dismissed and sealed Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The slender brunette sat at the defense table wearing sunglasses — with a pink polka-dot headscarf obscuring her face — and a long black sweater and flats.

Bottone did not utter a word as Justice Juan Merchan granted prosecutors’ request to toss the charges. No official reason was given for the decision, but Bottone had cooperated with the investigation.

She walked out of the courthouse hiding her face from news photographers.

“Ms. Bottone is both pleased and grateful that her case has been dismissed,” said her lawyer, Stephen McCarthy. “[She] is looking forward to leading a normal life with the support of her family.”

Gristina procured Bottone and Catherine Devries, 33, to perform the live sex show for an undercover cop posing as a John in July 2011, and cops secretly recorded the illicit tryst.

Devries was convicted on misdemeanor prostitution rap in October 2012.

Bottone, a Briton, has since moved to California, where she started her own business, McCarthy said.

Luckily for the leading ladies, they never had to endure the humiliation of testifying against Gristina, who copped to promoting prostitution in a no-jail plea deal in September 2012.