New York vice queen Anna Gristina makes emotional bid to return home to Scotland to see her dying mum

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A Scots vice queen jailed in New York for running an elite prostitution network has launched an emotional bid to return home to see her dying mother.

Anna Gristina, from West Lothian, was convicted in 2012 but has since been fighting to get a passport so she can visit Scotland.

In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Mail from her American home, she told how it would allow her to see her elderly mum, who is terminally ill.She accused the FBI of reneging on a deal that would allow her a passport in return for information on men who were forcing underage girls into prostitution.She said: “I’m living my life in limbo – I can never leave the country to go and see my family because I’ll never get back in.“My mum suffers from advanced pulmonary disease and every day she is scared to leave her house for fear of catching an infection because that would be her demise.“I fear she’s going to die alone.

My mum is the only person I haven’t lost – that’s why I’m fighting, so she doesn’t die alone.”Dubbed the “Millionaire Madam” and “Soccer Mom Madam”, Anna, 54, ran her operation from New York’s exclusive Upper East Side while leading another life as a married mum.She had a list of about 100 so-called high-class hookers who she would link up with mega-rich men – earning her up to £600 for every introduction.But it all came crashing down when she was caught by an ­undercover cop in a July 2011 FBI sting.She spent four months in notoriously tough Rikers Island prison before admitting one charge of promoting prostitution and was sentenced to five years’ probation and time served.Anna, 54, said she could use a British passport to travel but her criminal conviction would block her from returning to America – where she’s lived for 38