Anna Sorokin

Anna Sorokin, who bilked banks and tricked New York's elite into believing she was a German heiress named Anna Delvey, was released from an immigration ...

“We have an overreliance on detention, and her case is a good example of that,” he said. When City National Bank gave her a $100,000 line of credit, she spent $40,000 in a month on designer clothing and luxury hotels, according to evidence presented at trial. By the next month she had gone through the rest of the money, and then some. She persuaded some of Manhattan’s elite to believe her fake backstory and created a business plan to open an arts social club on Park Avenue South but ultimately went to jail after the project fell apart. After serving nearly four years, she spent 18 months behind bars in immigration detention for overstaying her visa, after a judge determined she was unrepentant. In May 2019, Sorokin was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for financial crimes including grand larceny and stealing a private jet.

Fake heiress Anna Sorokin, whose breathtaking deception of New York's financial elite inspired a hit Netflix series, was released Friday from an immigration ...

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 United States. 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. Anna 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 (ICE), told AFP.

In a late-night interview in her new Manhattan apartment, the fake heiress discussed her big plans, possible deportation and the glam potential of an ankle ...

I think it’s going to be a longer case. The way I’ve tried to see my experience is to learn from it: Who I am today is because of the decisions I made in the past. I talk to them every other day. I’ll have to do so many things. I obviously wasn’t able to do anything from jail. I’d love to do something with criminal-justice reform to kind of highlight the struggles of other girls. I could have left, but I chose not to because I’m trying to fix what I’ve done wrong. You got the news you could leave Wednesday morning, but you didn’t have an apartment. I’m thinking what I can do with it. We’ll just see what I can do from here. I just did not want it to go down the way ICE wanted it to. And I can have visitors beyond just 1:30 p.m.

The 31-year-old 'fake heiress' Anna Sorokin alias Delvey was convicted in 2019 for defrauding banks, hotels and swank New Yorkers of $275000 to finance her ...

An immigration judge cleared the way Wednesday for Sorokin to be released to home confinement while the deportation fight plays out. immigration custody to house arrest, immigration officials and her spokesperson said. She falsely claimed to be the daughter of a diplomat or an oil baron.

Anna Sorokin or Anna Delvey is a phony heiress, who was recently released from US immigration detention. She was born to a Russian truck driver, ...

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). She must be confined to her home, is prohibited to use social media and wears an electronic bracelet. She was released this Friday and still faces deportation from the US. She scammed banks, hotels and friends of more than a quarter of a million dollars. She pretended to be an heiress to a $60 million fortune. Sorokin is a 30-year-old German woman, who acted as an heiress Anna Delvey.

Anna Sorokin, the young Russian-German woman who bilked wealthy New Yorkers while pretending to be an heiress herself, has said she would fight deportation ...

I have so much history in New York and I felt like if I were in Europe, I'd be running from something." Sorokin was first arrested in 2017, then sentenced in 2019 to two years in a New York detention center on charges including grand larceny. Since February she has faced a deportation order to Germany, but in a weekend interview in her Manhattan building with The New York Times, Sorokin said she was fighting to stay in the United States.

NEW YORK (AP) — Convicted swindler Anna Sorokin spoke to The New York Times about how important it is to her to remain in New York despite risks of ...

[was released Saturday](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arrests-immigration-migration-anna-sorokin-ed844ff98aa8fbbd44d03421928c46a2) from U.S immigration custody to house arrest. Now, she is wearing an ankle monitor after posting a $10,000 bond. NEW YORK (AP) — Convicted swindler Anna Sorokin spoke to The New York Times about how important it is to her to remain in New York despite risks of deportation.

NEW YORK (AP) — Convicted swindler Anna Sorokin spoke to The New York Times about how important it is to her to remain in New York despite risks of ...

[was released Saturday](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arrests-immigration-migration-anna-sorokin-ed844ff98aa8fbbd44d03421928c46a2) from U.S immigration custody to house arrest. Now, she is wearing an ankle monitor after posting a $10,000 bond. NEW YORK (AP) — Convicted swindler Anna Sorokin spoke to The New York Times about how important it is to her to remain in New York despite risks of deportation.

Anna Sorokin, the young Russian-German woman who bilked wealthy New Yorkers while pretending to be an heiress herself, has said she would fight deportation ...

I have so much history in New York and I felt like if I were in Europe, I'd be running from something." Sorokin was first arrested in 2017, then sentenced in 2019 to two years in a New York detention center on charges including grand larceny. Since February she has faced a deportation order to Germany, but in a weekend interview in her Manhattan building with The New York Times, Sorokin said she was fighting to stay in the United States.

NEW YORK (AP) — Convicted swindler Anna Sorokin spoke to The New York Times about how important it is to her to remain in New York despite risks of ...

[was released Saturday](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arrests-immigration-migration-anna-sorokin-ed844ff98aa8fbbd44d03421928c46a2) from U.S immigration custody to house arrest. Now, she is wearing an ankle monitor after posting a $10,000 bond. NEW YORK (AP) — Convicted swindler Anna Sorokin spoke to The New York Times about how important it is to her to remain in New York despite risks of deportation.

Anna Sorokin was released from U.S immigration custody to house arrest. She told the New York Times she would feel like she was “running from something” if ...

Now, she is wearing an ankle monitor after posting a $10,000 bond. “Letting them deport me would have been like a sign of capitulation — confirmation of this perception of me as this shallow person who only cares about obscene wealth, and that’s just not the reality,” Sorokin told the Times. Sorokin, 31, was released Saturday from U.S immigration custody to house arrest.

Convicted swindler Anna Sorokin spoke to The New York Times about how important it is to her to remain in New York despite risks of deportation.

Now, she is wearing an ankle monitor after posting a $10,000 bond. She was released Friday from U.S [immigration](https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/Immigration) custody to house arrest. [Netflix](https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/Netflix).