Two years later, she was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison after being convicted of attempted grand larceny, larceny in the second degree and theft of services, and is currently facing possible deportation. In case you haven't watched, here's quick recap of what you need to know: In 2017, Anna was arrested and charged with defrauding or intentionally deceiving major financial institutions, banks, hotels, and acquaintances for a total amount upwards of $275,000. Thanks to the much-buzzed-about Netflix series, Inventing Anna, viewers have been fascinated with following the story of 31-year-old Delvey a.k.a Anna Sorokin (played by Julia Garner), who managed to convince New York's elite that she was a German heiress for approximately four years. Despite all that, I’ve yet to be given a clear and fair path to compliance.Anna Delvey may have spent quite a while sipping on champagne, but now she's spilling the tea. I did not break a single one of New York state’s or ICE’s parole rules. I served my prison sentence, but I’m appealing my criminal conviction to clear my name. In a piece with Insider from behind bars, she said: “My visa overstay was unintentional and largely out of my control. She made an application for relief, basically saying she didn’t want to go to Germany, and according to court documents reviewed by Esquire, she had applied for asylum in the US based on a “fear of returning to Germany.” Her application was denied.Īnna Delvey is 31-years-old now, and remains in custody in Orange County Correctional Facility in New York. At the end of the Netflix show, it tells us she was released from prison on 11th February 2021 and a month later, was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for overstaying her visa.Īnna had been scheduled to be deported back to Germany in late March last year, but currently remains in the US in custody.
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She hired a videographer who she said was going to tell her story from her perspective for a TV documentary.īut, her new found freedom and return to glamour didn’t exactly last very long. She returned to Instagram, and it looked like her glamorous life was back on track. One of the first things she did was settle her debts, and then she checked into the NoMad Hotel in downtown Manhattan. She was released from the original prison on parole in February 2021, after serving three years of her four-to-12-year sentence. Via Instagram Anna Delvey was released, but is now back in prisonĪfter Anna was sentenced in 2019 she did her time in prison and had been released, but she’s now back behind bars. Anna was convicted on multiple counts of attempted grand larceny, grand larceny and theft of services, for which she was sentenced to between four and 12 years imprisonment. In 2019, Anna Sorokin was found guilty of scamming New York’s social elite out of thousands of dollars by posing as the rich heiress. It is thought the amount she scammed friends and New York businesses of is in the hundreds of thousands. She created false bank statements and told investors she had plans to make an exclusive elite social club in the city which she needed money for. She became friends with celebrities and the rich and famous and managed to stay at the most luxury hotels on the scene – all without actually having the money she said she did. In New York in 2013, Anna took the name Delvey and told people she was a wealthy German heiress sitting on a €60million (£52million) fortune. She later moved to New York to cover Fashion Week for a magazine. She struggled to fit in as a child, and moved to Germany as a teenager. Her family are Russian and Anna was born in a small town there. Via Richard Drew/AP/Shutterstock Who is Anna Sorokin, or Anna Delvey?Īnna Delvey was born Anna Sorokin in January 1991.
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