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Anna Sorokin, the con artist otherwise known as Anna Delvey, is back in the headlines after the release of Netflix's Inventing Anna. Actress Julia Garner stars as Delvey in the Shonda Rhimes-produced miniseries, which documents the rise and fall of the fake heiress and how she defrauded wealthy friends, banks, hotels, and more.
"She’s actually really sweet," Garner told Town & Country of Delvey. When she visited her in prison before filming Inventing Anna, Garner says, "she was extremely charming. She’s very gentle. But then her voice gets less soft-spoken when she wants something."
Delvey was born Anna Sorokin in a Moscow suburb in 1991, and later moved to Germany with her family in 2007. She then relocated to Paris, where she started going by Anna Delvey, a ruse she kept up when she traveled on to New York City in 2014. While in New York, she conned her way into an extravagant lifestyle, skipping out on hotel bills and rubbing shoulders with the city's elite—and stealing from them.
On October 3, 2017 Anna Delvey was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department, in a sting operation planned by the Manhattan District Attorney's office. Rachel DeLoache Williams, who alleged she was swindled out of more than $60,000 by Delvey during a trip to Marrakesh, was involved in the sting. (Williams has accused Netflix of "running a con woman's P.R." with Inventing Anna.) Delvey was soon transferred to Rikers Island, where she was held without bail. Three weeks later, she was indicted for stealing approximately $275,000 through multiple scams.
"This defendant’s alleged criminal conduct spans from check fraud to six-figure stolen loans and includes schemes that resulted in a free trip to Morocco and travel on private planes," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a press release. "The investigation into her criminal activity is ongoing, and if you believe you may have been a victim of this defendant, I urge you to call my Office’s Financial Frauds Hotline."
In June 2018, Delvey and her lawyer attempted to make a plea deal, but Judge Diane Kiesel rejected it, saying Delvey showed "no remorse." Her case went to trial, and in April 2019, Delvey was convicted of eight charges against her, including second-degree grand larceny, theft of services, and first-degree attempted grand larceny. She was found not guilty of two charges: one of attempted grand larceny in the first degree, and one of larceny in the second degree (related to the alleged stealing of $62,000 from Rachel Williams in Marrakesh).
On May 9, 2019, Delvey was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison, fined $24,000, and ordered to pay restitution to her victims. "I am stunned by the depth of the defendant’s deception," Justice Kiesel said in handing down the sentence. She added that Delvey was "blinded by the glitter and glamour of New York City."
"The thing is, I’m not sorry," she told the New York Times a day after her sentencing. "I’d be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I said I was sorry for anything. I regret the way I went about certain things."
Where is Anna Delvey now?
Delvey was released from prison on good behavior on February 11, 2021 after serving nearly four years. In March 2021, six weeks after her release, she was taken back into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for overstaying her visa, and as of this writing, she remains in ICE custody in upstate New York.
In an essay she wrote while in custody for Insider, Delvey writes, "it doesn't look like I'll be watching Inventing Anna anytime soon. Even if I were to pull some strings and make it happen, nothing about seeing a fictionalized version of myself in this criminal-insane-asylum setting sounds appealing to me."
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