Anna delvey feet4/12/2024 ![]() Sorokin used these documents, as well as fraudulent checks, to trick banks, acquaintances, and realtors into paying out cash and granting large loans without collateral. She later created fake financial documents to substantiate her claims of having a multimillion-euro trust fund, and forged multiple wire transfer confirmations. Sorokin conceived of a private members' club and arts foundation, which included leasing a large building to feature pop-up shops and exhibitions by notable artists she met while interning. In 2011, she left Germany to live in London and Paris before relocating to New York City in 2013, where she interned for the French fashion magazine Purple. 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), also known as Anna Delvey, is a con artist and fraudster who posed as a wealthy heiress to access upper-class New York social and art scenes from 2013 to 2017.īorn to working-class parents in the Soviet Union (now Russia), Sorokin emigrated from Russia to Germany with her family at the age of sixteen in 2007. Of course, when I finished, I wanted to see just who these people were.NYSDOC #19G0366 Released from New York State custody in February 2021 currently under house arrest in the United States. I would have liked to know more about Anna, whose past is revealed late in the book. I especially liked the text message exchanges, which while they were repetitive and a bit whiny, reflected Rachel’s desperate attempts to get her money back. That said, I tore through the story and enjoyed reading how it all unraveled. The book deal and HBO’s purchase of the story have probably taken the sting out of this friendship gone wrong. I didn’t feel too sorry for her, however. And her fatal mistake was taking out her own credit card to cover the costs of their vacation. You read it because you want to know how anyone could fall for a scam like this and you’re glad it’s not you! The author fell for her friend’s tales of wealth and billion dollar trust fund. Rachel testified at her trial and wrote this book. The charges were grand larceny and theft of services from Rachel and others of more than a quarter million dollars. My Friend Anna is the story of how Rachel, 29, dealt with being duped out of a large amount of money, which included providing authorities with information and evidence that led to Anna’s arrest. After two months of promises (my favorite line from these conversations: “Would Bitcoin be okay?”), Rachel began to understand that she’d been conned. The charges totaled over $62,000 and Anna began to drag her feet. ![]() When Anna’s credit cards didn’t work in Marrakech, she persuaded Rachel to put the charges on her own cards, including a Vanity Fair American Express expense account, assuring Rachel she’d pay her back as soon as she talked to her bank. ![]() A couple months later, Anna invited Rachel and two others to join her on a lavish, all-expenses paid vacation in Marrakech, Morocco. Anna claimed to be negotiating a big idea – a private art club, housed in the historic Church Missions House on Park Avenue. The two became fast friends and Anna brought Rachel into her world, treating her to expensive restaurants, nightclubs, workouts, saunas, and pedicures. ![]() Delvey was living in a swank hotel and claimed to be a German heiress. In 2017, Rachel Williams, a young woman working for Vanity Fair magazine in New York, made friends with a 26-year-old woman named Anna Delvey. My Friend Anna – The True Story of a Fake Heiress
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