Family of Anna Gristina, alleged "Manhattan Madam," launches website seeking donations for her bail

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - The family of a woman accused of moonlighting for 15 years as a multimillion-dollar Manhattan madam has launched a website to help pay her $2 million bail. 

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Anna Gristina's family say they cannot afford to pay what they call her "cruel and unusual" bail.

The website says they need donations to help "bring her back to us." "The children are distraught," Gristina's husband, Kelvin Gorr, told The New York Post, saying that Gristina's 17-year-old son Stefano's high-school graduation is fast approaching.

"There's Mother's Day, the prom, graduation. She should be out. These are once-in-a-lifetime things that she's missing because of an unjust bail."

The site, www.helpanna.org, features family photos and information on her pot-bellied pig rescue farms.

According to the site, Gristina is being kept in solitary confinement. It says authorities are trying to humiliate her by making her "wear only a T-shirt and a diaper."

The corrections department tells The New York Daily News there's no truth to those claims.

Gristina has been held since her Feb. 22 arrest. She is being held on a single count of promoting prostitution. The Post reports Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has refused to budge on Gristina's bail of $2 million bond -- or $1 million cash -- agreeing with prosecutors who claim the Scottish-born soccer mom of four could be a flight risk.

Gristina's lawyers say she was trying to start a dating service.

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