Anna Sorokin, Real-Life ‘Inventing Anna,’ Released From Jail
The fake heiress who posed as Anna Delvey is fighting deportation to Germany
Anna Sorokin, who pretended to be German socialite Anna Delvey, was released from a New York detention center.PHOTO: RICHARD DREW/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Anna Sorokin, Real-Life ‘Inventing Anna,’ Released From Jail
The fake heiress who posed as Anna Delvey is fighting deportation to Germany
Anna Sorokin, who pretended to be German socialite Anna Delvey, was released from a New York detention center.PHOTO: RICHARD DREW/ASSOCIATED PRESS
By Ginger Adams Otis - Wall Street Journal
October 8, 2022
Anna Sorokin, who pretended to be German socialite Anna Delvey to swindle her way into a jet-setting lifestyle, has been released from a New York detention center, officials said.
Ms. Sorokin is residing in New York City while fighting a deportation order, according to her attorney John Sandweg.
Originally from Russia, she later became a German citizen. She would be deported to Germany, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A spokesman for ICE confirmed she was released from the agency’s custody Friday night.
Ms. Sorokin posted a $10,000 bond Friday as a condition of her release. She is on home confinement and must wear an ankle bracelet and stay off social media, her lawyer said.
“[Anna] does not get a free pass. She will remain under the supervision of ICE and her deportation proceedings will continue,” Mr. Sandweg said.
Ms. Sorokin gained national attention earlier this year when Netflix dramatized her story in the program “Inventing Anna.”
Ms. Sorokin, 31 years old, was convicted in 2019 of first-degree attempted grand larceny; second-degree grand larceny; third-degree grand larceny; and theft of services in a state criminal court in Manhattan.
Prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s office said that Ms. Sorokin for years presented herself as Anna Delvey, a wealthy German heiress with an overseas trust fund.
Using that persona, she defrauded banks, hotels, acquaintances and a private-jet company to pay for a lifestyle of designer clothing and blending into Manhattan social circles.
Ms. Sorokin was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for her crimes and released on parole from a New York prison in February 2021, Mr. Sandweg said. ICE took her into custody in March of that year and she was held in a detention center in Orange County until her release Friday.