Russian-German fake millionaire Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, fresh out of New York prison after cheating on the finance elite, said this weekend that she would fight not to be sent back to Germany and to stay in the American megalopolis.
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This 30-year-old with an incredible life, who inspired a fiction series on Netflix and who is a social media phenomenon, was released on bail on Friday evening and placed under house arrest with an electronic bracelet in a Manhattan apartment.
Anna Sorokin had been detained for a year and a half in a federal immigration police (ICE) detention center, 100 km north of New York, for overstaying her tourist visa.
She was arrested in 2017, convicted two years later of fraud and imprisoned in a New York prison from which she was released in 2021 for good behavior, before being immediately arrested again by ICE. Free under conditions, she has been under a deportation order to Germany since February, against which she has repeatedly appealed.
Interviewed at length by the New York Times on Saturday at her home in Manhattan, Anna Sorokin said she refused to be sent back to Germany by the immigration authorities.
“Letting them deport me would have sounded like a sign of capitulation, confirmation that I am perceived as a frivolous person who only thinks of obscene wealth, which is simply not the reality”, assured the young woman.
“I could have left, but I chose not to because I’m trying to make amends for my mistakes. I have such a history in New York that I have the feeling that if I was in Europe, I would be fleeing from something,” she insisted.
Anna Sorokin, alias Anna Delvey, had succeeded from 2016 to 2017 in deceiving financial elites and New York celebrities by posing as a wealthy German heiress at the head of a fictitious heritage of 60 million dollars.
Capable of constructing skilful lies thanks to an extraordinary poise, the young woman – recognizable thanks to her large designer glasses – had obtained tens of thousands of dollars in bank loans, traveled for free by private jet and lived in the Manhattan palace hooks. A slate of $275,000.
Of German nationality, born Russian near Moscow, Anna Sorokin is the daughter of a truck driver and a shopkeeper who emigrated to Germany in 2007. She frequented the fashion world in London and Paris before arriving in New York in 2013 for Fashion Week.
Her story inspired producer Shonda Rhimes (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal), which makes it a miniseries on Netflix, Inventing Annastarring Julia Garner.