
Finding it easier to make friends in New York than Paris, she opted to stay, transferring to Purple 's New York office for a brief time. In mid-2013, Sorokin traveled to New York City to attend New York Fashion Week. Sorokin later admitted she "just came up with it." Fraud Sorokin's parents, however, said they "do not recognize the surname". Around that time, Sorokin began using the name "Anna Delvey", which she claimed was based on her mother's maiden name. Although Sorokin did not contact her parents often, they subsidized her rent. Sorokin then relocated to Paris, where she earned around €400 per month through an internship for Purple, a French fashion magazine. In 2012, she briefly interned at a public relations company in Berlin. Īfter graduating from the school in June 2011, Sorokin moved to London to attend Central Saint Martins, an art school, but soon dropped out and returned to Germany. As a young adult, Sorokin obsessively followed Vogue, fashion blogs, and image accounts on LiveJournal and Flickr.

Peers said she was quiet and struggled with the German language. Sorokin attended the Bischöfliche Liebfrauenschule Eschweiler (Episcopal School of Our Lady of Eschweiler), a Catholic grammar school in Eschweiler. He then opened an HVAC business specializing in efficient energy use. There, her father became an executive at a transport company until the company became insolvent in 2013. In 2007, when Sorokin was 16, her family relocated to North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Her father, Vadim, worked as a truck driver while her mother owned a small convenience store. Sorokin was born on January 23, 1991, in Domodedovo, a working-class satellite town south of Moscow, Russia.

In 2022, she participated in a group pop-up art show called "Free Anna Delvey" in March, followed by a solo art show called "Allegedly" in April. Since incarceration, one of Sorokin's focuses has been art. Netflix developed a television adaptation of her story titled Inventing Anna, which was released in 2022 starring Julia Garner as Sorokin. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody pending deportation.

In 2019, Sorokin was convicted in a New York state court of attempted grand larceny, larceny in the second degree, and theft of services, and was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison. In 2017, she was arrested after defrauding or intentionally deceiving major financial institutions, banks, hotels, and acquaintances in the United States for a total of $275,000. Between 20, Sorokin pretended to be a wealthy German heiress under the name Anna Delvey. Grand larceny, second-degree larceny, theft of servicesĤ to 12 years imprisonment, $24,000 fine, $199,000 restitution, deportation to GermanyĪnna Sorokin ( Russian: Анна Сорокина born January 23, 1991) is a Russian-born German con artist, socialite and fraudster. NYSDOC #19G0366 Released from New York State custody in February 2021 currently in the custody of the United States.
