Anna Sorokin

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Anna Sorokin (native Russian Анна Вадимовна Сорокина Anna Wadimowna Sorokina , also known as Anna Delvey * 23. January 1991 in Domodedovo , Moscow Oblast , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian-German impostor who the life of the affluent strata of New York participated . In 2019, she was charged and found guilty of fraud against wealthy business acquaintances and several hotels.

Life

Anna Sorokin was born near Moscow. Her father initially worked as a truck driver, later as a manager and entrepreneur. The family moved to Germany in 2007 when Sorokin was 16 years old. She attended the Bischöfliche Liebfrauengymnasium in Eschweiler and was described by former classmates as a quiet but brand-obsessed girl. Sorokin went to her high school to London , ostensibly to art school Central Saint Martins , where she was expected to attend, but did not occur in the study; instead, she returned to Germany in 2012. Sorokin started working for a PR agency in Germany and later moved to Paris to work as an intern for the French fashion, art and culture magazine Purple .

She changed her name to Anna Delvey and began using this pseudonym with deliberate deception and imposture . Sorokin credibly pretended to be the German daughter of a millionaire and thus earned an untrue reputation for being part of Manhattan's affluent society . Hotels, business acquaintances and supposed friends were fooled by her over a longer period of time - mainly from November 2016 to August 2017. She was arrested in the fall of 2017 and charged with suspected fraud against wealthy New York business acquaintances and several hotels, as well as theft in a New York court, and later found guilty. According to the Manhattan District Attorney, the maximum amount of damage is $ 275,000 . The sentence of four to twelve years in prison was announced on May 9, 2019. After the end of her prison stay in the USA, she must expect to be deported to Germany because her visa has expired.

attitude

Sorokin admitted in a magazine interview that she made mistakes, but stated, "It doesn't diminish the hundred things I did right."

reception

Sorokin's behavior and approach led to worldwide reporting. Particular attention was paid to the fact that she appeared in court wearing designer clothes. The US streaming service provider Netflix has secured the rights to use the story of Sorokin and wants to produce a series of its own with the screenwriter Shonda Rhimes, entitled Inventing Anna . Editor Rachel Williams, who lost $ 62,000 to Sorokin, wrote the book My Friend Anna: The True Story of the Fake Heiress Who Conned Me and Half of New York City about Sorokin , which was published in July 2019 and has been published since September 2019 is available in a German translation.

The New York Times -Journalistin Ginia Bellafante wrote an article about this process and put forward the thesis that Sorokin's prosecution and conviction was an example that women harder for economic crimes would be punished than men.

The BBC journalist Vicky Baker, together with the playwright and screenwriter Chloë Moss, retraces Sorokin's story in the BBC podcast Fake Heiress (“False Heiress”). The six-part docudrama depicts their rise and fall using court documents, media reports and interviews with those affected.

In the Guardian , Hadley Freeman describes Sorokin as part of social circles who optimize their everyday lives for their own appearances on social media - “what other proof was needed?” - and concludes: “From the fake heiress to Donald Trump : We live in one Era of vertigo ”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Роман Лялин (Roman Ljalin) : Дочь дальнобойщика обманула банки и бизнесменов в США на 17 миллионов рублей . Komsomolskaya Pravda , St. Petersburg edition, April 11, 2019, accessed on May 9, 2019 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Nicole Chavez CNN: Fake heiress Anna Sorokin found guilty after fooling banks and New York's elite. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Your (fashion) show in court was of no use: Fake heiress Anna Delvey found guilty. April 26, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ False millionaire heiress Sorokin: court ruled "guilty"
  5. ^ A b Edward Helmore: 'Fake it until you make it': the strange case of New York's socialite scammer . In: The Guardian . March 31, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed April 20, 2019]).
  6. ^ Johanna Bruckner, New York: The wrong Anna . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 26, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 9, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: False German heiress tricking high society in New York , April 26, 2019
  8. ↑ a b c Jessica Pressler: How an Aspiring 'It' Girl Tricked New York's Party People - and Its Banks. May 28, 2018, accessed April 20, 2019 .
  9. ^ A b Marc Pitzke, New York: Germans in New York: Several years imprisonment for "false heir" . In: Spiegel Online . May 9, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 9, 2019]).
  10. ↑ For years Anna Delvey posed as a wealthy German heiress. Then their wrong game was exposed. In: stern.de. March 27, 2019, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  11. ↑ German-Russian impostor: Soon on Netflix, now in court . In: Spiegel Online . March 27, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 9, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Rachel DeLoache Williams: "She paid for Everything": How a Fake Heiress Made My $ 62,000 Disappear. Accessed April 20, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Ruth Brown: Wannabe socialite claims Rikers isn't that bad. In: New York Post. May 29, 2018, accessed April 20, 2019 .
  14. ^ DA Vance Announces Indictment of Repeat Scammer for Multiple Thefts Totaling $ 275,000. In: Manhattan District Attorney's Office. October 26, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2019 (American English).
  15. ^ Marc Pitzke, New York: Germans in New York: Several years imprisonment for "false heiress" . In: Spiegel Online . May 9, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 9, 2019]).
  16. ↑ a b Johanna Bruckner: The wrong Anna . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 26, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 9, 2019]).
  17. ↑ Katharina Kunath: The impostor appears in Celine before the judge. In: www.welt.de. April 2, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  18. ↑ In this new Netflix series "Gossip Girl" meets "Ocean's Eleven" . In: glamour.de. November 4, 2019, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  19. ^ Marc Pitzke, New York: Germans in New York: Several years imprisonment for "false heiress" . In: Spiegel Online . May 9, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 9, 2019]).
  20. ↑ Sadie Stein: True Life: I Got Conned by Anna Delvey. In: The New York Times . July 23, 2019, accessed October 2, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Ginia Bellafante: Are Women Taking the Cosmic Fall for Male Greed? In: The New York Times . May 3, 2019, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 9, 2019]).
  22. ↑ Fake Heiress . In: bbc.co.uk. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Hadley Freeman: From New York's fake heiress to Donald Trump, we're living in the age of the scam . In: The Guardian , May 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Sorokin, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delvey, Anna; Сорокина, Анна Вадимовна; Sorokina Anna Vadimowna (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German fraudster
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Domodedovo , Moscow Oblast , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union