NEW YORK, United States — Fake
heiress
Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, who was jailed in 2019 for scamming hundreds of
thousands of dollars from hotels, banks, and friends, and who inspired a hit
series on Netflix, was to be extradited to Germany on Monday, US media said.
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The 31-year-old
Russian-German citizen managed in 2016 and 2017 to deceive New York’s elites by
posing as a wealthy heiress, when in fact she was the daughter of a truck
driver originally from the suburbs of Moscow.
Sorokin, who
carried out her scams under the assumed name of “Anna Delvey”, was due to be
put on a flight to Frankfurt later Monday after being released from a detention
center in the State of New York, said the tabloid New York Post, citing sources
familiar with the matter.
Sorokin was
sentenced to between four and 12 years in prison but was released in February
2021 for good behavior, only to be arrested again the next month for
overstaying her visa. She was held in a facility by the
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE.
An ICE
spokesperson told AFP Monday that Sorokin “remains in ICE custody pending
removal,” without providing further details.
Capable of
weaving skillful lies with extraordinary aplomb, the young woman posed as a
German heiress with a fortune of $60 million, allowing her to obtain tens of
thousands of dollars in loans from several banks.
Between November
2016 and August 2017, she traveled for free by private jet, lived on credit in
Manhattan hotels, without ever paying anything, according to the New York
justice department, which estimated her frauds were worth around $275,000.
The daughter of
a Russian truck driver and a tradeswoman who immigrated to
Germany in 2007,
Sorokin, who arrived in New York in 2013, had even tried to obtain a loan of
$22 million dollars to launch a select club in Manhattan.
Her incredible story
seduced television producer
Shonda Rhimes (“Grey’s Anatomy”, “Scandal”) who
made it into a mini-series for on Netflix “Inventing Anna”, with Julia Garner
in the title role. According to media reports, Sorokin received $320,000
dollars from the streaming giant.
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