The false heiress and swindler Anna Sorokin He is scheduled for deportation to his home country of Germany this week after complaining about his treatment at an ICE detention center in upstate New York.
Sorokin, 31, was convicted of fraud in 2019 after she swindled New York socialites out of $200,000 by posing as a wealthy heiress named ‘Anna Delvey’. The fraud is represented in the Netflix series ‘Inventing Anna’, starring Julia Garner.
She was released from jail in February last year after her sentence was reduced after serving nearly four years of her 12-year sentence, and returned to her former life of luxury by renting a luxurious apartment in Chelsea. Weeks later, after showing off at a television interview that “crime pays, in a way”was arrested by immigration agents for allegedly overstaying her visa in the United States and has since been in ICE custody at the Orange County Correctional Center in Goshen, New York.
Anna Sorokin tried to apply for asylum in the United States, but the German newspaper Spiegel Panorama reports that her application was denied and she will now be flown back to Germany, surrounded by ICE officials. While her deportation is happening, Sorokin will still appear on the advice and comedy podcast ‘Call Her Daddy’ this Wednesday.
From Russia to Germany
Sorokin grew up in a working-class suburb of Moscow, the daughter of a truck driver whose mother ran a small grocery store. The family emigrated to Germany when she was 16 years old. She did not have a college degree or a substantial amount of wealth. But in 2013, Sorokin traveled to New York City to attend New York Fashion Week and ultimately stayed, posing as ‘Anna Delvey’, an heiress with a $60 million trust fund in Europe, while he scammed to obtain expensive trips and hotels.
The scam became known worldwide for the Netflix show ‘Inventing Anna’, based on the story published by journalist Jessica Pressler in New York Magazine.
Anna was first arrested in July 2017, A&E reports, after she left thousands of dollars in unpaid bills at two New York City hotels, the Beekman and the W New York, and ate dinner and ran out after lunch. at the Le Parker Meridien hotel. An undercover operation with the Los Angeles Police Department led to her arrest again.
In 2019, she was convicted of second-degree larceny, theft of services, and attempted first-degree larceny. However, Sorokin was acquitted of the most serious charge: Attempted grand theft in the first degree, in connection with a $22 million loan he attempted to obtain from City National Bank. She was also acquitted of stealing from her friend, Rachel DeLoache Williams, who worked in the photography department of Vanity Fair magazine, who was swindled out of $62,000. Anna, Rachel and a group of friends went on a trip to Morocco in 2017 and stayed in a villa that cost $7,000. Sorokin had promised to pay for the trip, but she never did. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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