False heiress Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin, who was jailed in 2019 for scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars from hotels, banks and friends, and who inspired a hit Netflix series, ‘Inventing Anna’, was reportedly extradited on Monday. in Germany, according to US media. The 31-year-old Russian-German citizen managed to deceive New York’s elites by posing as a wealthy heiress in 2016 and 2017, when she was actually the daughter of a truck driver from the Moscow suburbs.
Sorokin, who committed her scams under the false name “Anna Delvey,” allegedly boarded a flight to Frankfurt Monday after being released from a New York State detention center, the New York Post reported. . Sorokin was sentenced to between four and twelve years’ imprisonment, but she was released in February 2021 for good behavior, only to be arrested again the following month for a visa delay. Able to weave clever lies between November 2016 and August 2017, he traveled for free in a private jet, lived on credit in Manhattan hotels, never paying anything, according to the New York Department of Justice, which estimated his frauds to be worth it. about $ 275,000.
Sorokin, who arrived in New York in 2013, had even sought a $ 22 million loan to launch an exclusive art gallery like a club in Manhattan. Her incredible story seduced TV producer Shonda Rhimes (“Grey’s Anatomy”, “Scandal”) and became a Netflix miniseries ‘Inventing Anna’, starring an ever-stunning Julia Garner in the title role. According to media reports, Sorokin received $ 320,000 from the streaming giant, but that would barely have been enough to pay off her debts.