![]() While many New Yorkers have resigned themselves to using public transportation due to the rise in Uber fares, Anna is not ready for a downgrade. Nor, to complicate matters, are her habits: in order to appear before the judge as stipulated by the terms of her release, Sorokin, arrived in an Uber that cost her $160 dollars. ![]() Her main aim is to avoid extradition to Germany she is determined to stay in the US, where life is not exactly cheap. ![]() On the building’s rooftop, Sorokin takes part in photo shoots for various brands: fashion has always been her passion. According to The New York Post, the property was listed for $4,250 a month, the average rent in New York after the stratospheric price hike caused by inflation. The apartment has one bedroom and basic amenities. The first real difference between the lives of Delvey – the surname she adopted that was in her words, “random … it doesn’t have a background” – and Sorokin is the radical change of scenery: from the luxurious Manhattan hotel suites she stayed in as Delvey while duping banks and financial institutions in a bid to secure a $22 million loan to the fifth floor walk-up in an East Village apartment block where she has been since early October. I feel like that’s their problem.” A thinly veiled version of the blunt statement uttered in 2019 to The New York Times the day after she was sentenced: “I’m really not sorry.” Somebody assumed I had all this money just because I was working on this project. “I never told anybody how much money I had. “When I saw the headlines ‘con woman, fake heiress’, I didn’t see myself as such, at all,” she told The New York Post. ![]() Now under house arrest, Sorokin is making the most of her jailtime, which she talks about as if it were a minor setback, rather than a punishment for a crime. After spending nearly four years behind bars for fraud, and 17 more months in an immigration detention center, Anna Sorokin is living proof that you can’t “correct” guile it simply assumes a different guise. The rest of her existence may or may not be true, including the versions pedaled by Sorokin, 31, in interviews given after being conditionally released from jail, wearing an electronic ankle bracelet. Perhaps the only reliable thing about Anna “Delvey” Sorokin’s life is the Netflix series Inventing Anna depicting the lie that ushered her into the arms of the New York elite as a wealthy European heiress. ![]()
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