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That same month, Delvey was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison, but she was released on good behavior in February 2021. “I regret the way I went about certain things.” (She also told the newspaper that she was “not a good person.”) “I’d be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I said I was sorry for anything,” she insisted, explaining that she had intended to pay back her creditors. In May 2019-weeks after she was convicted of second-degree grand larceny, theft of services, and one count of first-degree attempted grand larceny, among other charges-Delvey told the Times she wasn’t sorry. She was arrested in July 2017 after failing to pay bills at New York City’s Beekman, W New York, and Le Parker Meridien hotels. She got a bank employee to give her $100,000, she bilked creditors out of more than $200,000, and she even tried to get a $25 million loan from a hedge fund, as jurors eventually decided.Įventually, though, the law caught up to her. She then traveled to New York, working for Purple’s office in the city for a time before quitting her job.Īnd it was in the Big Apple that Delvey started faking a glamorous lifestyle, living in fancy hotels, wearing designer clothing, rubbing elbows with the upper crust. That’s where she took on her alias as she worked for the fashion magazine Purple. The 31-year-old was born Anna Sorokin in Russia, but she grew up in Eschweiler, Germany, before leaving for Paris at age 19 to study fashion, according to The New York Times. So, what do we know about the real Anna Delvey?
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“Is Anna New York’s biggest con woman or is she simply the new portrait of the American dream?” Netflix adds, hyping up the nine-episode series debuting February 11. Now Shonda Rhimes is taking a shot at the question with Inventing Anna-the first series the Grey’s Anatomy mastermind has created under her blockbuster Netflix deal-with Ozark’s Julia Garner in the title role. Netflix calls her the “Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York’s social scene-and stole their money as well.” But the question of who Anna Delvey really is has fascinated the American public ever since Jessica Pressler’s New York magazine article “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People” went viral in 2018. ‘Inventing Anna’ Subject Anna Sorokin Is Released From Prison.Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin to Film Reality Series From House Arrest.
