Anna Sorokin’s story is capturing the eyes and ears of many and makes for an intriguing case. The mystifying con artist and impersonator forged the identity of a wealthy German heiress under the name Anna Delvey between 2013 and 2017 in the US.
With the facade of a trust fund and fake designer clothes, she fooled nearly everyone in her circle. The new Netflix series ‘Inventing Anna’, starring Julia Garner, glamorizes the true story of Sorokin, but closely follows the facts. She was arrested in 2017, for being caught for deceiving financial companies, banks, hotels, and people in America for a sum of $275,000 in only 10-months.
Behind the Facade
It seems that the fraudster at heart has a dark psyche. According to her best friend, Neffatari Davis, she “has a good heart, but she has a dark, twisted mind”. Behind the ‘heiress’ facade she is a daughter of a truck driver and her Mother is an owner of a small convenience store. Anna Sorokin was born in Domodedovo, a working-class town that is located South-East of Moscow, and relocated to Germany at the age of 16.
She travelled to the United States in 2013 with what appears to be an innocent ambition of establishing a high-end members-only arts club, but the dark cracks this club stood on began to show. Introducing herself under the name Anna Delvey who is a wealthy heiress. She convinced those friends she accumulated to pay for her expenses, under the impression that she would reimburse them due to the “fact” she possessed a trust fund worth €60 million.
Grand Larceny and Theft
Eventually, a Manhattan jury convicted Sorkin on one count of attempted grand larceny, three counts and four counts of theft.
She was released from prison on February 11th, 2021 on the account of good behaviour; but went back to her ways. Under the persona of being innocent as to why she was charged. Sorokin returned to New York City and posted on her social media accounts
“They already told you I own this lawless f***ing city.”
She apparently used the money Netflix paid her to pay her debts. Ms.Davis feels she has been punished enough, stating to The Post that “She’s paid for her crimes, she didn’t kill anyone. She did wrong, but, at the end of the day, there are people who have done worse.”
Sorokin discusses her crimes via Instagram from Orange County Correctional Facility; where she has been uploading intermittent updates from. She says that “looking back at it three years later, I don’t endorse any of the ways that I chose to resort to while going about what I’ve done”.
Sorokin was only free for a couple of weeks before the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on March 25th detained her on the count that her visa had expired. Currently, the Russian-German fraudster is set to be deported to Germany.
According to news.com.au the 31-year-old is reportedly set to board to Frankfurt on Monday night. She is apparently fuming at the potential deportation after her appeal to remain in the United States.
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