Sorokin moved to New York City in 2013, where she scammed her way into expensive trips and hotel stays. Money just always represented freedom for me, not just for the sake of the money.' If you ask parents for money, then you need their permission, but if you have your own – you just go and do whatever you want. 'Because I was just so used to being given freedom, and when they attempted to take it away or impose some kind of restrictions on me I did not really react.'īut she denied that she was 'obsessed' with money, instead saying: 'I just wanted to have the freedom that comes with it. I was just allergic to authority, to rules, especially when I thought they were unreasonable. 'I hated on them to like put any restrictions – any rules. 'I just hated to be told what to do,' she told the podcaster. She was sentenced to a minimum of four years in prison, but was released in February 2021. In April 2019, Sorokin was convicted of four counts of theft services, three counts of grand larceny, and one count of attempted grand larceny. Sorokin skipped out on exorbitant restaurant and hotel bills, and in one case, put a friend in an awkward position putting $62,000 - more than she made in a year - on her credit card to cover a stay at a lavish hotel in Marrakesh. The Russian-born scammer - whose story inspired the newly released Netflix series Inventing Anna - swindled banks and New York's downtown socialite scene out of thousands of dollars between 2013 to 2017 while she lived in Manhattan, a German heiress who had a $67million trust fund back in Europe. Money, she said, gave her freedom to do as she wanted. Sorokin also opens up about her childhood, saying that she was exposed to the high-flying lifestyle by watching MTV and how, as a teenager, she was 'allergic to authority'. Instead, she insists that she was just being herself during her time in the Big Apple, which could soon finally come to an end if she is deported in the coming weeks.īut despite playing herself down, she throughout the interview alludes to her ability to wave skillful lies and manipulate others to do her bidding, telling Cooper that she had a jail assistant during her time in Rikers Island prison who charged her iPads, and how she was able to pay others to do her laundry for her - by hand. With the background blurred, the 31-year-old comes across as friendly and easy to talk to, but also reluctant to paint herself as a mastermind con-artist. The video interview was recorded on March 7 and features Sorokin - who remains at the Orange County Correctional Facility in upstate New York - in a yellow prison jumpsuit and her signature Celine glasses. Pretending to have $60million in a trust fund was no big deal, she said, because '60 million is border-line poor in New York.' The scammer, who during her time in NYC went as Anna Delvey, said she didn't think she was doing anything out of the ordinary. She spoke of how she would underdress when visiting banks - from which she took out thousands of dollars in fraudulent loans - to give off a 'I don't give a f*** vibe', and claimed she never told any 'senseless lies' that 'criminally harmed' anyone.ĭuring the interview with Alexandra Cooper, host of the sex and relationship advice podcast Call Her Daddy, released Wednesday, Sorokin also said she has been flooded with marriage proposals, finds murderers 'normal' and hates being controlled by money.Īsked whether people believing she already had money made it easier to ask for more, she told the host: 'I guess it's just easier to ask somebody for I don't know, 20 million,' when they already think you have money, she said. Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin laughed as she revealed how she effortlessly scammed New York City's high society and denied being a con artist in a new podcast recorded from an ICE jail.
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