In 2019, Sorokin was convicted in a New York state court of attempted grand larceny, larceny in the second degree, and theft of services, and was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison.
After serving two years, she was remanded into the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation to Germany. On the 5th of October 2022, Sorokin was granted a $10,000 bail bond and released from prison.
Anna Sorokin also known as Anna Delvey is a Russian-born German con-artist and fraudster who posed as a wealthy heiress to access the upper echelons of the New York social and art scenes from 2013 to 2017.
Born to working-class parents in the Soviet Union, Sorokin emigrated from Russia to Germany with her family in 2007.
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. Sorokin conceived of a private members’ club and art foundation, which included leasing a large building to feature pop-up shops and exhibitions by notable artists she met while interning.
She later created fake financial documents to substantiate her claims of having a multimillion-euro trust fund and forged multiple wire transfer confirmations. 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 used this to fund her lavish lifestyle, including residencies in multiple upper-class hotels. Between 2013 and 2017, Sorokin defrauded and deceived major financial institutions, banks, hotels, and individuals for a total of $275,000.
In 2017, the NYPD arrested Sorokin in a sting operation with the help of her former friend, Rachel DeLoache Williams, whom Sorokin had defrauded of $57,000.
As of October 2022, Sorokin is required to remain in 24-hour home confinement with electronic monitoring and no access to social media.