New York: Anna SorokinYoung Russian-German Woman Who Made Rich New Yorkers Pretending to be an heir herself, she has said that she will fight exile To Germany Recently released from prison.
Sorokin, 31, whose extraordinary story inspired a fictional series on Netflix and has been a social-media phenomenon, was released on bail late Friday and immediately placed under house arrest, wearing an ankle bracelet. confined him to his modest Manhattan. apartment.
He had spent the past year and a half in a detention center north of New York City operated by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, better known as ICE, pleaded guilty to overstaying his tourist visa went.
Sorokin was first arrested in 2017, then sentenced in 2019 to two years in a detention center in New York, including a grand larceny. As soon as he had served that sentence – he was released early for good behavior – ICE agents took him into custody.
She has faced an order of exile in Germany since February, but The. In a weekend interview with new York TimesSorokin said that she was fighting to stay in the United States.
She told the Times, “Let them banish me would have been like a sign of surrender—confirming my perception of me as this shallow person who only cares about obscene money, and that’s not reality.”
“I could have left,” Sorokin said, “but I chose not to because I’m trying to fix what I’ve done wrong. I have a lot of history in New York and I felt like I was in Europe, I’m someone. Must be running away from things.”
Passing herself off as Anna Delvey in 2016 and 2017—a German heiress who claimed to have a $60 million fortune—Sorokin found herself in the upper reaches of New York society, an exclusive arts club catering to members of the elite. By taking his name persuaded to invest in
He had a rare talent for telling elaborate lies with an uncanny chivalry that made him believable.
Sorokin secured tens of thousands of dollars in loans, free trips on a private jet, and accommodations in some of New York’s most luxurious boutique hotels.
In all, prosecutors said, he duped $275,000 of unsuspecting.
Russian-born Sorokin, who holds German citizenship, is the daughter of a truck driver and a shopkeeper who moved to Germany in 2007.
In her oversized designer glasses, which were a trademark, she frequented the fashion world of London and Paris before moving to New York for Fashion Week in 2013.
Her story eventually caught the attention of American producer Shonda Rhimes (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal”), who turned it into the Netflix miniseries “Inventing Anna” starring Julia Garner.
Sorokin, 31, whose extraordinary story inspired a fictional series on Netflix and has been a social-media phenomenon, was released on bail late Friday and immediately placed under house arrest, wearing an ankle bracelet. confined him to his modest Manhattan. apartment.
He had spent the past year and a half in a detention center north of New York City operated by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, better known as ICE, pleaded guilty to overstaying his tourist visa went.
Sorokin was first arrested in 2017, then sentenced in 2019 to two years in a detention center in New York, including a grand larceny. As soon as he had served that sentence – he was released early for good behavior – ICE agents took him into custody.
She has faced an order of exile in Germany since February, but The. In a weekend interview with new York TimesSorokin said that she was fighting to stay in the United States.
She told the Times, “Let them banish me would have been like a sign of surrender—confirming my perception of me as this shallow person who only cares about obscene money, and that’s not reality.”
“I could have left,” Sorokin said, “but I chose not to because I’m trying to fix what I’ve done wrong. I have a lot of history in New York and I felt like I was in Europe, I’m someone. Must be running away from things.”
Passing herself off as Anna Delvey in 2016 and 2017—a German heiress who claimed to have a $60 million fortune—Sorokin found herself in the upper reaches of New York society, an exclusive arts club catering to members of the elite. By taking his name persuaded to invest in
He had a rare talent for telling elaborate lies with an uncanny chivalry that made him believable.
Sorokin secured tens of thousands of dollars in loans, free trips on a private jet, and accommodations in some of New York’s most luxurious boutique hotels.
In all, prosecutors said, he duped $275,000 of unsuspecting.
Russian-born Sorokin, who holds German citizenship, is the daughter of a truck driver and a shopkeeper who moved to Germany in 2007.
In her oversized designer glasses, which were a trademark, she frequented the fashion world of London and Paris before moving to New York for Fashion Week in 2013.
Her story eventually caught the attention of American producer Shonda Rhimes (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal”), who turned it into the Netflix miniseries “Inventing Anna” starring Julia Garner.