During the height of Sororkin’s spree through Manhattan 2016-17, service staffers pocketed the $100 cash tips she flashed around, courtesy of bad cheques kindly bank clerks cashed for her. She claimed to be an heiress to a German sustainable energy empire who would collect $60 million when she turned 25 in 2017
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‘Fake heiress’ Anna Sorokin is planning to launch a video series following her release from prison, which will rival a Netflix drama based on her life as a New York conwoman.
The 30-year-old, who went by the alias Anna Delvey, spent four years in jail for defrauding hotels, restaurants, a private jet operator and banks out of more than $200,000, but has no plans to drop the persona she created, saying: “I’m a movement by myself.”
Since her release, Ms Sorokin has penned open letters to Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump, started writing a book on her experience of prison, set up an Instagram account which has more than 80,000 followers and is planning to launch Anna Delvey TV to try and wrestle back control of the narrative surrounding her life.
In an interview with Insider, the Russian-born German citizen said: “I’m just kind of filming everything I’m doing right now and I’m going to see what to do with it later.
“I just got out of prison, like two days ago. So it’s me like getting all this stuff from Sephora, me opening a bank account as soon as I get permission from my parole officer.
“I’m going to see my parole officer Tuesday for the first time. Things like that. It’s a way to control what I want to tell.
“So many people, I see, are trying to tell my narrative. I just decided to do something on my own.”
Ms Sorokin was born in Russia to a truck-driving father and a shopkeeper mother, and the family moved to Germany when she was a teenager.
However, she reinvented herself as an heiress to a $60 million fortune when she moved to New York in 2013, creating the character Anna Delvey and duping a number of wealthy Manhattan socialites into backing her plans to launch a members-only arts club to rival Soho House.
There is already a race to tell her story. Netflix paid $320,000 (which she has used to settle fines and restitution costs) for the rights to her life story. In ‘Inventing Anna,’ Sorokin will be played by Ozark ctress Julia Garner. The 10-part series is likely to be released later this year.
Actress Julia Garner will play Anna Sorokin in the new Shonda Rhimes Netflix adaptation of the scandal. In preparing for her role she visited the 29-year-old conwoman at Rikers Island
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In a competing project, HBO has bought the rights to a book by Sorokin’s former friend Rachel Williams, who says she lent the fraudster $62,000 to pay for a lavish trip to Morocco. Sorokin was found not guilty of the larceny charge involving Williams, but the series is also likely to air this year.
After her arrest, Sorokin spent 18 months in jail at the notorious Rikers Island, where Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Tupac, and Harvey Weinstein have all served time. After her conviction, she was imprisoned at Albion Correctional Facility in upstate New York for 21 months.
Speaking to Insider, she said she plans to write about her experiences.
“It’s going to be my take on the criminal justice system and my jail experience,” she said.
“I feel like so much stuff that’s out there, it’s just focused on how cruel prisons are, or whatever. This was not my experience at all — maybe it’s because I’m female, I did not experience any abuse from the staff.
“My point is basically going to be like the pointlessness of the whole thing. They just wasted everyone’s time and money.”
She added that she was treated like a celebrity while behind bars, and that “a lot of” correctional officers were “very inappropriate, very unprofessional".
Ms Sorokin, who hired a stylist for her trial and wore designer clothes in the dock, claimed some of them said things like: "Oh my gosh, I love your story. I’m following you on Instagram."
On her new website, Anna Delvey Diaries, she has reached out to Harvey Weinstein, saying: “Are you sometimes paranoid and feel like the world’s against you?
“Like everyone is out to get you, just waiting for you to make a mistake so they can go ahead and write another book about you, sharing their invaluable insights about the inner workings of your mind?”
She created a ‘Rikers Island 101 for Donald Trump’ in the event that the former President is ever sent to prison.
Sorokin is appealing her convictions for multiple counts of attempted grand larceny, theft of services, and larceny in the second degree.
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