Anna Sorokin's Post-Prison Fit Is Straight Fire—See The Photo
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Anna Delvey (real name: Anna Sorokin) made the news after a 2018 Vanity Fair piece extensively detailed how she conned wealthy New Yorkers out of their money.
The Russia-born fraudster, who was convicted of eight felony charges in 2019, swindled an estimated $275,000 from hotels, friends, and even financial institutions. She was given a prison sentence of four to 12 years—but she was released from Rikers after just two years served.
On October 5th, 2022, a judge released her from I.C.E custody on $10,000 bail—and banned her from using social media.
Anna Delvey first became known on a national level after a 2018 Vanity Fair piece detailed how the fake heiress managed to pretend that she was super rich so she could swindle wealthy New Yorkers out of their money.
Anna’s story inspired the Netflix limited series Inventing Anna, where a journalist breaks down the trial of Anna Sorokin, who had been posing as “Anna Delvey.” She pretended to be a German heiress with a $67 million dollar trust fund.
Anna eventually was found out and went to jail for her crimes, as you can see in the scripted series.
But her story doesn't end there. After serving time, she ended up in prison again. In March 2021, she was arrested for overstaying her visa, per PEOPLE. She was detained in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Orange County, New York.
On October 5th, a judge ordered that Anna could leave prison as long as she posted $10,000 bail.
Most recently, Anna was spotted headed to court. And by the looks of it, she's already back to her glamorous lifestyle. On Tuesday, the 31-year-old headed to the courthouse while making a fashion statement in a black trench coat with a matching scarf, and heels.
Here’s everything you need to know.
Anna is no longer in prison for scamming.
Anna was convicted and sent to prison in May 2019 for grand larceny, attempted grand larceny, and theft of services, per ABC News. She was also fined $24,000 and ordered to pay nearly $200,000 in restitution. But Anna, who was born in Russia, got out of jail in February 2021. She was originally supposed to serve a four- to 12-year sentence but was let out on parole after only two years for good behavior, according to Paper.
She was sent to ICE custody shortly after her release.
Her freedom was short-lived, though.
Less than two months after her prison stint, in March 2021, Anna reported herself to authorities in lower Manhattan, per the New York Post. She was put in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody for overstaying her visa.
She was detained in a facility in Hackensack, New Jersey while waiting to learn if she would be deported to Germany, which is where she lived before she moved to the U.S., per Insider.
On October 5th, a judge released her from ICE detention on $10,000 bail.
Anna was granted release from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Orange County, New York, Bloomberg reported.
As part of her release, the scammer has agreed to pay $10,000 for bail and is banned from social media, where she often shared posts that showed off her seemingly lavish lifestyle for her friends and potential investors.
However, she will be under "24-hour confinement at the provided residential address for the duration of her immigration proceedings" since she faces deportation after overstaying her visa, per The Daily Beast.
Anna's under house arrest in her East Village apartment.
After reviewing her case Judge Charles R. Conroy ruled that while she wasn’t a danger to the community, she will remain under house arrest in her East Village apartment, wear an ankle monitor, and (probably the biggest hit for Delvey) stay off of social media, per The New York Times.
Anna has made good on that promise, and her last Instagram post was on October 1st.
ICYDK, Delvey was quick to start posting on her Instagram following her release the first time. And while in prison, she shared photos of her artwork that she was selling online. She also posted a photo of herself drinking Champagne while luxuriating in a tub.
P.S. It's worth noting that she and Julia Fox are friends. (See their comments below.)
She says she never claimed to be an heiress.
In an interview with ABC News, Anna said she never said she came from money and that she was “trying” to pay people back before she was arrested in 2017. “I would like to show the world that I’m not this dumb, greedy person that they portrayed me to be,” she said.
Anna sold the rights to her story.
Anna sold the rights to her story to Netflix and Shonda Rimes, who made Inventing Anna. But she had to first pay her victims back because New York state law doesn’t allow criminals to profit from their crimes, ABC News reports.
She says she's changed.
While she was in ICE custody, Anna wrote an article for Insider where she seemed pretty ticked about the circumstances.
“While I was in prison, I paid off the restitution from my criminal case in full to the banks I took money from,” she said. “I also accomplished more in the six weeks they deemed were long enough for me to remain free than some people have in the past two years.”
“My visa overstay was unintentional and largely out of my control. I served my prison sentence, but I'm appealing my criminal conviction to clear my name,” she continued. “I did not break a single one of New York state's or ICE’s parole rules. Despite all that, I've yet to be given a clear and fair path to compliance. Did I mention I'm the only woman in ICE custody in this whole jail? Tell me I'm special without telling me I'm special.”
Now, in her first interview since being released, Anna said she was content with the judge’s ruling and claims she’s changed despite what many people may think.
“I definitely have a way different perspective now than I did when I came out the first time last February. It’s just impossible to have been through what I’ve been through without changing. I learned so much being in jail,” she told The New York Times.
“It wouldn’t be right if I were just to switch in one day. That would be very disingenuous. It’s a process. I am regretful about the way things played out. 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.”
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