Sorokin was sentenced to between four and 12 years in prison but was released in February 2021 for good behaviour, only to be arrested again the next month for overstaying her visa…reports Asian Lite News
31-year-old convicted criminal Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, who was jailed for theft of services and grand larceny in 2019, and who inspired a hit series on Netflix, was to be extradited to Germany on Monday, media reported.
The fake German heiress managed in 2016 and 2017 to deceive New York’s elites by posing as a wealthy heiress, when in fact she was the daughter of a truck driver originally from the suburbs of Moscow.
According to the report from New York Post, Sorokin, who carried out her scams under the assumed name of “Anna Delvey”, was due to be put on a flight to Frankfurt later Monday after being released from a detention center in the State of New York.
Sorokin was sentenced to between four and 12 years in prison but was released in February 2021 for good behaviour, only to be arrested again the next month for overstaying her visa. She was held in a facility by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE.
An ICE spokesperson told AFP Monday that Sorokin “remains in ICE custody pending removal,” without providing further details.
Earlier, speaking to Cosmopolitan, Sorokin said she thinks she is “more self-aware” than the fictionalised version of herself in the Netflix show ‘Inventing Anna’ by actress Julia Garner.
She doesn’t agree completely with the way that Garner portrayed her in the mini-series �Inventing Anna’, which was based on The Cut article by journalist Jessica Pressler, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Sorokin said: “I think I’m more self-aware of the way I come across. Not all of the time, but I just don’t think I’m, like, so brazen and shameless.”
The fake German heiress was said to have “moved on” from her grifting days among New York City’s elite.
She said: “I personally moved on a very long time ago, and I’m absolutely not in the same place. But I’m also being affected by the way the world sees me and by what people think of me. Because I exist in relation to everybody else and to the world, I don’t just exist on my own.”
The streaming service reportedly paid Anna $320,000 for the rights to the story, but a judge ordered her to use the money as restitution to her victims, which include hotels and banks, and towards her $75,000 legal fees.
Last month, she claimed nothing about watching the show sounded “appealing” to her.
Sorokin remarked there was “nothing about seeing a fictionalized version of myself in this criminal-insane-asylum setting sounds appealing to me.”
“I imagined for the show to be a conclusion of sorts, summing up and closing of a long chapter that had come to an end.”
