NEW YORK | She was sentenced in 2019 to years in prison in New York for stealing $275,000 from hotels, banks and relatives: fake Russian-German multimillionaire Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, who inspired a series on Netflix, should be extradited to Germany on Monday.
The one who had managed between 2016 and 2017 to deceive New York elites by posing as a wealthy heiress should board a flight to Frankfurt on Monday evening, after being released from a detention center in the State of New York, reports the tabloid New York Post, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Of German nationality and born Russian near Moscow, Anna Sorokin, alias Anna “Delvey”, aged 31, was released from prison in February 2021 for good behavior, after her sentence two years earlier to several years in prison for theft.
In March 2021, she was arrested again for overstaying her visa and returned to a migration police (ICE) center where, according to an email from a spokesperson on Monday evening to AFP, “She remains detained pending the suspension” of this detention, without further details.
After several administrative appeals for a year, in particular to demand a booster vaccination against Covid-19, she had appealed to stay in the United States, according to the NY Post.
Capable of constructing skilful lies thanks to an extraordinary aplomb, the young woman presented herself as a German heiress rich with 60 million dollars, which had enabled her to obtain tens of thousands of dollars in loans from several banks. .
From November 2016 to August 2017, she had traveled for free by private jet, lived on the hooks of Manhattan palaces, without ever paying anything, according to the New York justice which had estimated the flight in 2019 at 275,000 dollars.
Daughter of a Russian driver and tradeswoman who emigrated to Germany in 2007, the young woman, who arrived in New York in 2013, had even tried to obtain a loan of 22 million dollars to launch an exclusive club in Manhattan.
Her incredible story seduced television producer Shonda Rhimes (“Grey’s Anatomy”, “Scandal”) who made it into a miniseries broadcast for a month on Netflix, “Inventing Anna”, with Julia Garner in the title role. According to the specialized press, Anna Sorokin would have received 320,000 dollars from the streaming giant.