Anna Sorokin

Her exploits posing as a German heiress to scam individuals and financial institutions out of hundreds of thousands of dollars inspired a Netflix series.

She falsely claimed to be the daughter of a diplomat or an oil baron. This week, a judge had cleared the way for Sorokin to be released to home confinement while she fights deportation. She told the publication she was "just happy to be back" in New York City.

It was the story that caught the imagination of millions around the globe as it streamed on Netflix, and now it has a new chapter as Anna is released.

From November 2016 to August 2017, she traveled for free by private plane, stayed in luxury hotels and frequented the most exclusive Manhattan lounges, without ever paying a penny, according to the New York justice who estimated in 2019 that the value of what was swindled amounted to $275,000. According to reports, Anna Sorokin was paid $320,000 by the streaming giant. A German national, but born near Moscow, the 31-year-old was released from prison in February 2021 for good behaviour after being sentenced two years earlier to between four and 12 years in prison.

NEW YORK — Phony socialite and convicted swindler Anna Sorokin, whose scheme inspired a Netflix series, has been released from US immigration custody to ...

She is wearing an ankle monitor and had to post a $10,000 bond, provide an address where she'll stay, and agree not to post on social media. They argue that she has overstayed her visa and must be returned to Germany. “Anna now has her opportunity to demonstrate her commitment to growing and giving back and being a positive impact on those she meets,” Engelmayer said in a statement.

Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin, the real-life "Inventing Anna," is now out of jail and fighting deportation.

"I was from Germany, which was true, but nobody ever asked me about my job," Sorokin said. Recently they've highlighted Sorokin's artwork, which was featured in a New York show in May. In November, the Board of Immigration Appeals granted an emergency stay in her case, according to ICE. She's been fighting her deportation -- and also joined a group of plaintiffs suing the agency earlier this year, alleging they'd requested and been denied Covid booster shots while in custody. Among them: staying off social media and remaining at the same residential address 24 hours a day while her case proceeds. Actress Julia Garner, best known for her Emmy-winning role as Ruth on "Ozark," played Sorokin.

Anna Sorokin, the subject of Shonda Rhimes' Netflix miniseries 'Inventing Anna' who pretended to be a German heiress of a big fortune, is out of jail as per ...

Anna, 31, was released on a bail of $10,000 bail. The Russian-born con artist was let off from a New York jail on Friday. It received a score of 64 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes. The documents she falsified included wire transfer confirmations and fake checks to trick people into paying her cash and grant big loans without any collateral. Anna Sorokin was sentenced to imprisonment in April, 2019 on charges like grand larceny in the second degree and theft of services. However, not long after she was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as her visa had expired.

NEW YORK: Fake heiress Anna Sorokin, whose breathtaking deception of New York's financial elite inspired a hit Netflix series, was released Friday (Oct 7) ...

Phony socialite and convicted swindler Anna Sorokin, whose scheme inspired Inventing Anna, has been released from U.S. immigration custody to house arrest, ...

"Anna now has her opportunity to demonstrate her commitment to growing and giving back and being a positive impact on those she meets," Engelmayer said in a statement. An immigration judge cleared the way Wednesday for Sorokin to be released to home confinement while the deportation fight plays out. Her trial lawyer said she simply got in over her head as she tried to start a private arts club and had planned to pay up when she could.

The fake German heiress had a solo art show titled “Allegedly” and has been selling pieces on her Instagram account.

While Sorokin will not be allowed to leave the property, she will be able to receive visitors, although they will have to be approved and scheduled first. Subsequently, she used the social media platform to communicate directly with fans and supporters and sell her art. Sorokin held a solo art show in NYC in May titled “Allegedly” and has been selling off the pieces from that exhibit over the past few months by posting them to her Instagram account. I’d be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I said I was sorry for anything. The judge rightfully recognized that Anna is not a danger to the community.” Her representative Juda Engelmayer also told On Friday, the scammer who swindled New York socialites into believing she was a German heiress named Anna Delvey was released from an ICE detention facility in Goshen, New York, and sent back to Manhattan.

Fake heiress Anna Sorokin, whose breathtaking deception of New York's financial elite inspired a hit Netflix series, was released Friday from an immigration ...

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Anna Sorokin, who bilked banks and tricked New York's elite into believing she was a German heiress named Anna Delvey, was released from an immigration ...

“We have an overreliance on detention, and her case is a good example of that,” he said. When City National Bank gave her a $100,000 line of credit, she spent $40,000 in a month on designer clothing and luxury hotels, according to evidence presented at trial. By the next month she had gone through the rest of the money, and then some. She persuaded some of Manhattan’s elite to believe her fake backstory and created a business plan to open an arts social club on Park Avenue South but ultimately went to jail after the project fell apart. After serving nearly four years, she spent 18 months behind bars in immigration detention for overstaying her visa, after a judge determined she was unrepentant. In May 2019, Sorokin was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for financial crimes including grand larceny and stealing a private jet.

In a late-night interview in her new Manhattan apartment, the fake heiress discussed her big plans, possible deportation and the glam potential of an ankle ...

I think it’s going to be a longer case. The way I’ve tried to see my experience is to learn from it: Who I am today is because of the decisions I made in the past. I talk to them every other day. I’ll have to do so many things. I obviously wasn’t able to do anything from jail. I’d love to do something with criminal-justice reform to kind of highlight the struggles of other girls. I could have left, but I chose not to because I’m trying to fix what I’ve done wrong. You got the news you could leave Wednesday morning, but you didn’t have an apartment. I’m thinking what I can do with it. We’ll just see what I can do from here. I just did not want it to go down the way ICE wanted it to. And I can have visitors beyond just 1:30 p.m.

Phony socialite and convicted swindler Anna Sorokin, whose scheme inspired Inventing Anna, has been released from U.S. immigration custody to house arrest, ...

"Anna now has her opportunity to demonstrate her commitment to growing and giving back and being a positive impact on those she meets," Engelmayer said in a statement. An immigration judge cleared the way Wednesday for Sorokin to be released to home confinement while the deportation fight plays out. They argue that she has overstayed her visa and must be returned to Germany. Her trial lawyer said she simply got in over her head as she tried to start a private arts club and had planned to pay up when she could. "She has hurdles before her, and she will navigate them with strength and determination, using her experiences and lessons learned." immigration custody to house arrest, immigration officials and her spokesperson said.

Phony socialite and convicted swindler Anna Sorokin, whose scheme inspired Inventing Anna, has been released from U.S. immigration custody to house arrest, ...

"Anna now has her opportunity to demonstrate her commitment to growing and giving back and being a positive impact on those she meets," Engelmayer said in a statement. An immigration judge cleared the way Wednesday for Sorokin to be released to home confinement while the deportation fight plays out. Her trial lawyer said she simply got in over her head as she tried to start a private arts club and had planned to pay up when she could.

The 31-year-old 'fake heiress' Anna Sorokin alias Delvey was convicted in 2019 for defrauding banks, hotels and swank New Yorkers of $275000 to finance her ...

An immigration judge cleared the way Wednesday for Sorokin to be released to home confinement while the deportation fight plays out. immigration custody to house arrest, immigration officials and her spokesperson said. She falsely claimed to be the daughter of a diplomat or an oil baron.

Anna Sorokin, the young Russian-German woman who bilked wealthy New Yorkers while pretending to be an heiress herself, has said she would fight deportation ...

I have so much history in New York and I felt like if I were in Europe, I'd be running from something." Sorokin was first arrested in 2017, then sentenced in 2019 to two years in a New York detention center on charges including grand larceny. Since February she has faced a deportation order to Germany, but in a weekend interview in her Manhattan building with The New York Times, Sorokin said she was fighting to stay in the United States.

She had spent the last year and a half in a detention center north of New York City operated by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, known as ICE, ...

I have so much history in New York and I felt like if I were in Europe, I'd be running from something." In her oversized designer glasses that were something of a trademark, she frequented the fashion worlds of London and Paris before moving to New York in 2013 for Fashion Week. Passing herself off in 2016 and 2017 as Anna Delvey - a German heiress who claimed to have a fortune of US$60 million (S$85.97 million) - Sorokin insinuated herself into the upper reaches of New York society, persuading members of the elite to invest in an exclusive arts club bearing her name.

NEW YORK (AP) — Convicted swindler Anna Sorokin spoke to The New York Times about how important it is to her to remain in New York despite risks of ...

[was released Saturday](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arrests-immigration-migration-anna-sorokin-ed844ff98aa8fbbd44d03421928c46a2) from U.S immigration custody to house arrest. Now, she is wearing an ankle monitor after posting a $10,000 bond. NEW YORK (AP) — Convicted swindler Anna Sorokin spoke to The New York Times about how important it is to her to remain in New York despite risks of deportation.

Convicted swindler Anna Sorokin spoke to The New York Times about how important it is to her to remain in New York despite risks of deportation.

Now, she is wearing an ankle monitor after posting a $10,000 bond. She was released Friday from U.S [immigration](https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/Immigration) custody to house arrest. [Netflix](https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/Netflix).

Convicted swindler Anna Sorokin spoke to The New York Times about how important it is to her to remain in New York despite risks of deportation.

Now, she is wearing an ankle monitor after posting a $10,000 bond. She was released Friday from U.S immigration custody to house arrest. Sorokin's case became the basis for the series “Inventing Anna” on Netflix.

Anna Sorokin, the ex-con-artist who inspired the Netflix series “Inventing Anna,” discussed her oncoming legal battle against potential deportation in her ...

“So many immigration lawyers told me I’d get deported to Mars before I’d get out in New York,” Sorokin said, explaining her excitement to be able to remain in the U.S. I’d love to do something with criminal-justice reform to kind of highlight the struggles of other girls.” It’s really hard to tune out distractions,” Sorokin said of her social media ban. Back in a 2019 interview with the New York Times, Sorokin expressed little remorse for her actions. The way I’ve tried to see my experience is to learn from it: Who I am today is because of the decisions I made in the past.” “Maybe that’s for the best? Sorokin, who is Russian-born and has German citizenship, was arrested in March of last year for overstaying her visa in the U.S. for the time being. “I just did not want it to go down the way ICE wanted it to. “I could have left, but I chose not to because I’m trying to fix what I’ve done wrong. Her “I learned so much being in jail,” Sorokin said.