NEW YORK, United States — Fake heiress
Anna Sorokin, whose breathtaking deception of New York’s financial elite inspired a
hit Netflix series, was released Friday from an immigration detention center but
still faces deportation from the US.
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Sorokin, who used the name Anna Delvey while
scamming more than a quarter of a million dollars from hotels, banks, and
friends, was granted conditional release by a judge after posting a bond, a
spokesperson for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, told AFP.
The 30-year-old German national was released in
February 2021 for good behavior after serving a portion of a 4-12-year prison
sentence, only to be arrested again the next month for overstaying her visa.
Sorokin will be confined to her home in New York
City for a time after posting a $10,000 bond, will have to wear an electronic
bracelet, and is prohibited from using social media, US media reported.
Sorokin has spent the past 18 months fighting her
deportation order to Germany, lodging a series of appeals.
Last November, the Board of Immigration Appeals
granted Sorokin an emergency request to remain in the US while her removal was
being processed, something she will now be able to do outside the walls of the
detention center.
Born near Moscow, Sorokin is the daughter of a
Russian truck driver who immigrated to Germany.
She assumed the name Anna Delvey and posed as the
heiress to a fortune of $60 million to open the door to New York high society
after arriving for Fashion Week in 2013.
Instantly recognizable thanks to her large designer
glasses, Sorokin used her extraordinary ability to weave skillful lies to
obtain tens of thousands of dollars in bank loans, travel free by private jet,
and live on credit in Manhattan hotels.
Arrested in 2017 and convicted two years later, she
inspired television producer
Shonda Rhimes (“Grey’s Anatomy”, “Scandal”) to
make her the subject of the hit Netflix mini-series “Inventing Anna”, with
Julia Garner in the title role.
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