Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin today prevented US authorities from deporting her from the country by refusing to board a flight in New York.
The 31-year-old swindler who scammed New York socialites for $200,000 by posing as a German heiress named Anna Delvey was scheduled to arrive at Frankfurt airport this morning after being deported by US authorities.
But instead of boarding a flight from Newark to Frankfurt, the scammer reportedly made such a scene and acted so violently that she was not allowed on the flight.
Daniela Hoffmann, a reporter for the German broadcaster RTL, arranged for Sorokina to speak on the phone last night at 8:30 pm, but although the message was delivered, she was unable to contact her.
Speaking to Mail Online this morning at Frankfurt Airport, she said: “She absolutely did not arrive today and we have been waiting for her for several hours.
“It is assumed that Anna fought so hard against getting on board the plane that in the end she was not allowed on board,” Hoffmann said.
“I have been talking with Anna for a long time. I spoke to her lawyer and then to her when she was released last year, and I would say there is mutual respect in that.”
“I find her very, very sweet, and I can really understand why New York’s high society liked her – she’s well-read, art-savvy, fashion-savvy, and actually very appreciative.”
“She didn’t want to be deported to Germany because she wanted to stay in the US – and for that she wanted to be given a second chance. I think everyone deserves a second chance in life!”
Sorokina was supposed to arrive in Frankfurt this morning at 09:15 on a United Airlines flight, but the German police also confirmed that she did not fly on this flight, and none of the passengers who arrived at Frankfurt airport this morning said that they saw her on board the plane . airplane.
This has led to speculation that she may be forced to take part in a later fight today, even if that means she is restricted.
Sorokina made headlines around the world after pretending to be a super-rich heiress named Anna Delvey with a $60 million trust fund to gain access to her wealthy goals and borrow tens of thousands of dollars from us in bank loans.
In 2019, she was convicted of fraud in a long-term scheme that has since been featured in the Netflix series Inventing Anna, starring Julia Garner.
After serving almost four years of her sentence of four to 12 years, Sorokina was released from prison in February 2021 and returned to her former luxurious life by renting a posh apartment in Chelsea.
A few weeks later, after boasting in a TV interview that “crime pays in some way,” she was arrested by immigration agents for allegedly overstaying her visa and has since been in ICE custody at the Orange County Correctional Facility in Goshen, New York.
Sorokina tried to apply for asylum in the US, but the German newspaper Spiegel Panorama reports that her application was rejected.
Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin today prevented US authorities from deporting her from the country by refusing to board a flight in New York. The 31-year-old fraudster who swindled New York socialites out of $200,000 was due to arrive at Frankfurt airport this morning after being deported by US authorities. Pictured: Sorokin in court in 2019
Sorokin has been held at the Orange County Correctional Facility in Goshen, New York, since March 2021 for an overstayed visa.
On Sunday, Sorokin compared her experience on Riker’s Island to this villa compared to her experience at the ICE Detention Facility.
Able to spin clever lies with extraordinary aplomb, the young woman posed as a German heiress with a fortune of $60 million, which allowed her to receive tens of thousands of dollars in loans from several banks.
Between November 2016 and August 2017, she flew free on a private jet, lived on credit in Manhattan hotels, never paying anything, according to the New York Department of Justice, which valued her fraud at about $275,000.
But before she developed a taste for the glamorous lifestyle, Sorokin grew up in a working-class suburb of Moscow, the son of a truck driver whose mother owned a small shop. The family emigrated to Germany when she was 16 years old.
Her father, Vadim, said that Anna managed to make friends in Germany and often hung out with them or stayed at parties – regardless of how she was portrayed on the Netflix program.
She had no higher education or significant wealth.
Despite this, Vadim said that it was very difficult for Anna to cope with two main problems.
First, in Russia, although she was already given private dance lessons and French lessons, she soon demanded that her parents supply her with fashionable clothes.
But instead of being grateful, Anna often didn’t even bother to wear these things, although these things were often very difficult to find in stores.
This did not sit well with her father, who was raised to never throw away anything, not even bread crumbs. When she arrived in Germany, the problem became much worse.
Suddenly she was faced with a huge, compared to Russia, choice of fashionable things, and now she wanted to have absolutely everything.
Then she was disappointed that those around her in Germany did not share her desire to always wear only the most fashionable clothes at a discount.
She quickly began to neglect her social circle, Düren, where her father worked, and Eschweil, a town near Cologne, where the family lived.
Instead, she began to target the bustling metropolitan areas of Berlin and Paris and always turned to her father for cash when she ran out of money.
In 2013, Sorokina traveled to New York to attend New York Fashion Week and ended up staying, pretending to be “Anna Delvey” – an heiress with a $60 million trust fund in Europe – as she tricked her way into to expensive travel and hotel accommodation. , robbing her best friend along the way.
The scam is now immortalized in the Netflix show Inventing Anna, based on a New York magazine article by journalist Jessica Pressler that shed light on her scheme.
In 2019, Sorokina was convicted of second-degree theft, service theft, and attempted first-degree theft after she refused to pay at some of the city’s most expensive hotels.
She was first arrested in July 2017, according to A&E, after she missed thousands of dollars in unpaid bills at two New York hotels – Beekman and W New York – and had lunch and an afternoon rush at the Le Parker Meridien Hotel.
Sorokin was due to appear in court in September of that year, but never showed up.
A few months later, in October, the Manhattan District Attorney, along with the Los Angeles Police Department, organized a sting operation and arrested her again.
According to the indictment, City National Bank allowed Sorokina to overdraft her account for $100,000.
She managed to keep $55,000 in her account, but she “squandered that money on personal expenses for about a month” on a lavish hotel stay, shopping for high-end fashion clothes, and taking classes with a personal trainer.
In 2019, she was convicted of second-degree theft, service theft, and attempted first-degree theft.
However, Sorokina was acquitted on the most serious charge of attempted first-degree grand theft in connection with a $22 million loan she was trying to get from City National Bank.
She was also acquitted of stealing from her friend Rachel DeLoach Williams, who worked in Vanity Fair’s photography department and had $62,000 stolen from her.
In 2017, they, along with a group of other friends, went to a villa in Morocco for $7,000 a night. Sorokin promised to pay for the trip, but he never did.
However, she was acquitted of stealing from her friend Rachel Deloche Williams (pictured), whom she brought to a villa in Morocco for $7,000 a night, claiming she would pay.
Sorokin was sentenced to between four and 12 years in prison and ended up serving four years on Riker’s Island – New York City’s largest prison – before being released for good behavior in February 2021.
She then paid off her debts and paid government fines out of the $320,000 she received for selling her life story to Netflix.
But just a month later, she was re-arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for an overstayed visa.
Since then, she has been held at the Orange County Correctional Facility, where she complained about the conditions of her detention.
In an Instagram post on Sunday, Sorokina wrote that Rikers was like the Marrakech hotel she brought Williams to, compared to a “lawless” ICE facility.
“The Rikers will never get away with letting someone go for 15 [minutes] a day, like ICE is doing to me again, “quarantine” or not,” she wrote.
“Until now, ICE OCJail has given [me] nothing but basic “credit card rejected” vibes.
Sorokin sold the rights to her life story to Netflix for $320,000. Above, actress Julia Garner plays Delvey in Inventing Anna.
Sorokina, pictured earlier this month, is now receiving “poor relief” after she reportedly used Netflix money to pay off her debts.
While in ICE custody, Sorokina announced that she was suing ICE after she allegedly contracted the coronavirus when she was denied a revaccination.
She, along with three other detainees, filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging federal authorities violated their constitutional rights as “medically vulnerable individuals” and engaged in “unlawful discrimination” by refusing to vaccinate.
According to a complaint received by on Thursday, Sorokina tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-January after she made multiple requests for a booster shot and never received a response.
She also claims she continues to experience lingering effects of the virus, including fatigue, coughing, confusion and shortness of breath, and is still seeking a shot “because she is concerned she will get COVID-19 if she gets it again.”
Sorokina also now alleges in court documents that she was finally broke and was given “aid to the poor” in her appeal of the conviction.
With the money she received from the lucrative Netflix deal, she paid $100,000 to the city’s national bank, $70,000 to Citibank, spent $75,000 in legal fees, and another $24,000 in fines, leaving about $51,000.
Apparently, Sorokina did not return Blade, an Uber air taxi service, $35,400 she owed them for a charter flight from New Jersey to Omaha, Nebraska, to attend the annual meeting of shareholders of the investment company Berkshire Hathaway.
She also apparently did not repay the $23,000 she owed to Signature Bank.
Poor People’s Aid provides her with court-issued money to cover the costs of her appeal and other legal fees.