Sorokin said, she has been held in a maximum security section. She said she has balked against authority in Rikers and has been disciplined 30 times, including a few weeks in solitary over Christmas. Although she was sentenced to a longer term than she had been offered in a plea deal, she said she did not regret going to trial. Sorokin was again arrested in October 2017 and held at Rikers.Īhead of trial, she said, she was offered a plea deal with a sentence of three to nine years in prison, but she considered that too long and took her chances on a trial. Sorokin was first arrested in July 2017 for skipping out on thousands of dollars of bills at the Beekman and W New York hotels and a lunch bill of less than $200 at a restaurant at the Le Parker Meridien hotel.Īfter being released, Ms. She would use those same documents again and again in pursuit of different loans, she said. and created four fake bank statements in Photoshop, which she said took surprisingly little time. In late 2016, she said, she returned to Germany for a few months where she worked out the details of A.D.F. Prosecutors said her ruse was collapsing. She said she felt pressured to open the club in order to attract more investors. There, her attention turned to art.īut time was running out. In Paris, she said she took on the name Anna Delvey when shooting photographs for Purple, a fashion, art and culture magazine. Sorokin, who spoke only vaguely of her childhood, said she was not close to her “conservative” parents she noted that they did not attend her trial. At 19, she left her parents and brother for Paris in pursuit of a fashion degree. Sorokin said she was born in Russia and grew up in Eschweiler, Germany, where her father worked as an executive at a transport company, which eventually became insolvent. Sorokin made excuses for her actions, she did not apologize for her character: “I’m not a good person.” From striver to grifter She said she never told anyone she had that kind of money - they just assumed it. “I was power hungry.”įriends may have thought she had millions of dollars at her disposal, she said, but that was a misunderstanding. “My motive was never money,” she said, dressed in a khaki jail jumpsuit and Céline glasses. The attention of influential men in finance and real estate validated her, she said. Sorokin insisted she was worried that as a young woman, she was vulnerable to men who would “cheer me on” and then seize control of her vision for the club, which she called the Anna Delvey Foundation. She had wanted to start a $40 million private club, and potential investors pushed her to open it before they would put up their own money. It was true, she said, that she had falsified some bank records, but only because she had a big dream. (Her lawyer, Todd Spodek, later told The Times that he did not believe that was the case, and her parents had told New York magazine they did not recognize the name.) But that was just her mother’s maiden name, she said. Sorokin acknowledged that friends knew her as Anna Delvey. In an interview about a week before her sentencing, Ms.
Sorokin bilked these places out of more than $200,000 and tried to dupe a hedge fund into giving her a $25 million loan. She said she always intended to pay back her creditors, which included two downtown hotels, a private jet company and banks. I regret the way I went about certain things.” “I’d be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I said I was sorry for anything. “The thing is, I’m not sorry,” she said on Friday, a day after she was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison.
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