NEW YORK: Fake heiress Anna “Delve” Sorokin, who was jailed in 2019 for scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars from hotels, banks and friends, and who inspired a hit series on Netflix, was arrested on Monday in Germany. was arrested in was to be extradited to the United States, US media said.
The 31-year-old Russian-German citizen managed to trick the New York elite into a wealthy heiress in 2016 and 2017, when in fact she was originally the daughter of a truck driver from the suburbs of Moscow.
The tabloid New York Post said Sorokin, who carried out his scandal under the alleged name of “Anna Delvey,” was to be placed on a flight to Frankfurt on Monday to be released from a detention center in New York state. He was done. Citing sources familiar with the matter.
Sorokin was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison but was released for good behavior in February 2021, only to be re-arrested the following month for overstaying his visa. He was held in a facility by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, or ICE.
An ICE spokesman told AFP on Monday that Sorokin remains in “expulsion pending in ICE custody” without providing more details.
Able to weave skillful lies with extraordinary courage, the young woman posed as a German heir with assets worth $60 million, allowing her to obtain loans worth thousands of dollars from several banks.
According to the New York Department of Justice, between November 2016 and August 2017, she traveled free by private jet, lived on credit in Manhattan hotels, without ever paying anything, which led to fraudulent estimates of about $275,000. Put it. Was.
The daughter of a Russian truck driver and a tradewoman who immigrated to Germany in 2007, Sorokin, who moved to New York in 2013, also attempted to obtain a $22 million dollar loan to start a select club in Manhattan.
Her incredible story enticed television producer Shonda Rhimes (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal”), who made it into a mini-series for the Netflix “Inventing Anna” with Julia Garner in the title role. According to media reports, Sorokin received $320,000 from the streaming giant.