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It's the Hard-Knock Life for New York's Madams

Anna Gristina

Anna Gristina, who has been charged with promoting prostitution, appears in State Supreme Court with her attorney Peter Gleason, Monday, March 12, 2012, in New York. (Louis Lanzano / AP Photo)

Another tragic story of the rich under-paying their service providers. From today's Wall Street Journal:

The mother of four accused of running a high-end and highly profitable Manhattan brothel doesn't "have two nickels to rub together," one of her attorneys told a judge on Monday.

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