It girl Anna Sorokin tricked New York’s high society

New York / Eschweiler. When Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” came to the cinema, which tells the true story of Jordan Belfort, who in the 1990s robbed naive small investors of their laboriously scraped-up savings and made millions, many Americans were irritated. They couldn’t decide straight away whether the film condemns the fraudulent impostor or, for which Americans have a certain weakness, secretly glorifies.

With Anna Sorokin, a tank truck driver’s daughter who made it into the cool kissing society of New York via Russia and Eschweiler near Cologne with stops in London and Paris with a fascinating long-lasting saga of lies, the danger is already there before the first film -Scene is in the box. The 27-year-old with the blue-eyed doll’s face has been in custody behind bars for several months for serious theft, stealth and other offenses on Rikers Island, in the middle of the East River with around 10,000 prisoners, New York’s most notorious prison.

Update from April 26, 2019: False millionaire heiress Sorokin: Court ruled “guilty”

Anna sneakily sneaked considerable bank loans

The industry giant Netflix wants to film the life story of the impostor. Under the name Anna Delvey, she posed as a $ 60 million scion of a rich family. She cheated in the hottest party circles with chutzpah and hubris, lived for weeks in posh hotels, dined regularly in the gourmet temples of Soho, threw around $ 100 tip bills and booked luxury trips for $ 7,000 a night Marrakech.

Anna ordered private planes and callously sneaked large bank loans. And always at the expense of third parties, who somehow persuaded them to step in for them and who ignored (or wanted to overlook) for a long time that the wrong fifty man from the Rhineland did not even begin to have the necessary financial strength. According to the indictment, the damage should amount to at least $ 275,000.

“Best brands are just good enough for her”

The native Russian had a penchant for luxury for a long time. In Eschweiler, former classmates remember a clever girl who passed her Abitur despite language problems – and she looked bored of “normal” life. In the newspaper of the Episcopal Liebfrauengymnasium, her friends wrote about her: “The best brands are just good enough for her”, her shoes couldn’t be too glamorous. Anna’s nickname: Barbie.

Now she faces a long prison sentence. Out of jail, she gives wandering interviews, which, according to judge Diane Kiesel, are more concerned about which Hollywood star she should now embody on the screen. In conversation are Jennifer Lawrence (27) and Margot Robbie (27), who just shone in the role of the skating witch Tonya Harding. Shonda Rimes, who is behind the successful “Scandal” series, is supposed to take care of the script.

Miss sees herself wrongly criminalized

The damage that Sorokin, who started as a trainee at a fashion magazine, took advantage of the amazing gullibility of various New York scene greats from art, money and gastronomy did not play a role. Not the slightest trace of insight, purification or even real remorse. On the contrary.

The young lady sees herself wrongly criminalized. With the necessary support, i.e. money, a lot of money, from others, she says undeterred, she would have realized her dream project in the middle of New York: a multifunctional property in the style of the Berlin Soho house (rental accommodation, culture, upscale knick-knack retail, disco , Club etc.). And all debts paid off.

Anna Sorokin faces 15 years in prison

Judge Kiesel did not go along. The criminal trial against Sorokin begins on September 18. If things go bad, the self-created it girl disappears from the scene for 15 years. Does that frighten you?

Rikers Island is “actually not that bad”, she says, “I see it as a sociological experiment”. She claims to have made friends with some of the female inmates. Among them is a girl who has stolen other people’s identities. “I hadn’t known”, Sorokin is amazed, “how easy it is.”

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