By zooming in from a New York hotel room in a $ 720 Balenciaga hoodie, the fake heiress Anna Sorokin (30) gave her first interview after going to jail.
The daughter of a Russian truck driver had acquired a new identity in the USA as the wealthy heiress Anna Delvey and stolen a luxurious lifestyle at the expense of others. Through clever lies and a self-confident demeanor, she sneaked tens of thousands of dollars in loans from various banks between November 2016 and August 2017, traveled for free in private planes and lived for months in luxury hotels in New York City Manhattan without paying the bills. A $ 275,000 hoax! In May 2019, she was therefore sentenced to between four and twelve years.
Sorokin has been free again since Thursday. According to media reports, an appeal committee had approved her release, taking into account good conduct and time spent in custody.
On Friday, she published a photo on Instagram showing her in a bed with sunglasses. “You can not imagine how stressful the prison is,” she wrote.
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On Sunday her first interview since she was released from prison. With “InsiderSorokin spoke of the memoirs she’s working on (“my view of the criminal justice system”), life in prison (“a huge waste of time”) and remorse (“a useless feeling”).
“It’s about who you know,” Sorokin said of her time in prison. “It’s a bit like the New York scene, but reinforced. Because if you know the right officers, they’ll get you the right job. And so I had a job in a gym because I just wanted to work out when no one else wanted to go. And they gave it to me. “
When asked if she had celebrity status in jail, she replied: “Definitely.”
According to Insider, Sorokin is said to have received $ 320,000 for a Netflix documentary. Money she has to pay to her victims for legal fees, fines and refunds. Sorokin’s lawyers did not provide any information about whether her client might even be deported to Germany: when she was 16, the family had moved to Germany.
In 2016, Sorokin came to the US and sneaked into New York high society. Among other things, Sorokin tried to use forged documents to found a mixture of nightclub and art gallery and borrowed $ 22 million for it. An influential client even wanted to give her a building on Park Avenue.
The case caused quite a stir in the United States. Star producer Shonda Rhimes has acquired the rights to one Netflix-Serie to shoot the case, with actress Julia Garner in the lead role.The broadcaster HBO is also planning a film adaptation.
