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Anna Sorokin, the 31-year-old scammer who pretended to be a German heir named Anna Delvey and inspired the Netflix show Inventing Anna, was released from ICE detention on Friday. Sorokin had been held in the Orange County jail in upstate New York for more than 17 months after being detained for overstaying her visa last year, her attorney, John Sandweg, told BuzzFeed News. “She does not get a free pass,” Sandweg said in an email.
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“She will remain under the supervision of ICE, and her deportation proceedings will continue.”
Sorokin, who is still facing possible deportation to Germany, will now be residing in New York City under 24-hour home confinement while the deportation case continues, per the court ruling obtained by the Daily Beast. On top of that, Sorokin must not use social media and was required to post a $10,000 bond, the Daily Beast reported. "Anna now has her opportunity to demonstrate her commitment to growing and giving back and being a positive impact on those she meets," Sorokin spokesperson Juda Engelmayer told BuzzFeed News.
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"She has hurdles before her, and she will navigate them with strength and determination, using her experiences and lessons learned." Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images Anna Sorokin in court in 2019 Born in Russia, Sorokin moved to Germany at 16 and later dropped out of college.
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After interning with a fashion magazine in Paris, Sorokin made her way to New York in 2013 and, over the next few years, managed to swindle $275,000 from hotels, restaurants, banks, and people by pretending to be a German heir with a hefty $60 million trust fund. Living in some of New York’s most expensive hotels for months at a time, Sorokin racked up huge bills for rooms and restaurants. She would promise payment via wire transfers that would never end up arriving.
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On top of that, Sorokin used fraudulent bank documents in an attempt to get $22 million in loans from City National Bank and Fortress Investment Group to open a social club similar to Soho House’s, named the Anna Delvey Foundation. Sorokin secured a $100,000 loan after convincing a City National Bank representative to let her overdraft her account. The scams came to light in summer 2018, when stories of her scheme were published in Vanity Fair and New York magazine.
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In the Vanity Fair story, her former friend Rachel DeLoache Williams, a former photo editor of the magazine, wrote about her experience with Sorokin. Williams detailed how she and Sorokin met at a Manhattan nightclub and how Sorokin would frequently take her out for glamorous dinners, drinks in hotel bars, visits to a personal trainer, and trips to the sauna and always pay the bill.
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Dave Kotinsky / Getty Images Anna Delvey (right) attends the first Tumblr Fashion Honor at the Jane Hotel on Sept. 9, 2014, in New York. The two went on a holiday to Morocco, where they stayed in a luxury resort for $7,000 a night, racking up a $62,000 bill.Williams assumed Sorokin would cover the cost of the rooms, but her card got declined.
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Sorokin then convinced Williams to put it on her own card, saying she’d pay her back. Months later, the money never came, so Williams went to the police. Andia / Universal Images Group via Getty Images Entrance to the 5-star hotel La Mamounia In 2019, Sorokin was convicted of eight charges, including attempted grand larceny for attempting to obtain a $22 million loan from a bank.
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During her trial, Sorokin’s courthouse looks became a hot topic, as she chose to be dressed by celebrity stylist Anastasia Walker. The Instagram page @AnnaDelveyCourtLooks documented and posted her outfits for each day of the trial. Lara Marie Schoenhals @LarzMarie My queen Anna Delvey serving an iconic trial look 09:53 PM - 27 Mar 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @LarzMarie Sorokin was eventually sentenced to four to twelve years behind bars.
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She ended up serving around four years in New York state prison and was released in 2021 on parole for good behavior. But, six weeks later, she was arrested by immigration authorities for overstaying her visa.
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Earlier this year, Netflix released Inventing Anna, produced by Shonda Rhimes, which is based on the 2018 viral New York magazine article about Sorokin’s scam. Sorokin was paid $320,000 for the rights to her story and used the money to pay back several people she still owed, as well as legal fees. The Cut / Via thecut.com Sorokin became an ever bigger celebrity after the show’s release, with her Instagram following growing to over 600,000 from 150,000 before the show aired.
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She currently has 1 million followers, although now she can’t engage with them for the time being. While still in custody, Sorokin was interviewed by Cosmopolitan about her thoughts on the show’s portrayal of her. “I don’t think I ordered people around so much,” she told the magazine.
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Sorokin also did a virtual podcast with Call Her Daddy’s Alex Cooper in 2022, during which she spilled her thoughts on everything from the Netflix show to her case. “I don’t know, I wasn’t doing anything super crazy. I feel like there are just people who were spending way more money than I did,” Sorokin said on the podcast.She went on to reveal that while at Rikers Island, the correctional facility where she spent two years before her jury conviction, she paid someone to do her laundry for her to avoid having to handwash it herself.
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In response to being asked if she considered herself a con artist, Sorokin responded, “Absolutely not,” but then, later in the podcast, admitted that she lied about her family’s background. “I guess I did, I mean, I cannot recall the exact instance, but I’m sure I did,” she said.
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Pool New / Reuters Anna Sorokin, who a New York jury convicted of swindling more than $200,000 from banks and people, reacts during her sentencing at the New York Supreme Court on May 9, 2019. In May, Sorokin (who remained in custody) virtually hosted an art show at the Public Hotel in New York.
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The exhibition was titled Allegedly and featured artwork she had made while detained. Later in the summer, in an interview with NBC News, Sorokin admitted that what she did was unethical, adding that she “would not encourage anybody else to follow my footsteps.”
Most recently, Williams, Sorokin’s former friend who wrote the Vanity Fair story, filed a lawsuit against Netflix in August, claiming that the show defamed her by portraying her as greedy, snobbish, and disloyal, among other things.
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