After days of back and forth, scammer Anna Sorokin was released from custody. She is now under house arrest in an apartment in New York. The US authorities want to continue deporting the 31-year-old to Germany.
The German impostor Anna Sorokin has been released from custody pending deportation in the USA. The 31-year-old was allowed to leave the institution on Friday evening (local time), the responsible authority said. NBC reported that Sorokin posted $10,000 bail.
Her spokeswoman Juda Engelmayer told the US portal that Sorokin raised the required sum through online sales of her artworks. The German-Russian made drawings in detention and distributed them via an Instagram page. However, the judge ruled on Sorokin’s dismissal that she was not allowed to continue to operate her Instagram channel – neither herself nor through third parties.
In addition, the 31-year-old is placed under house arrest in New York and has to wear an ankle bracelet. The release from prison was initially delayed because Sorokin could not show a permanent address. According to Page Six, however, she has now found an apartment for which she pays $ 5,000 a month rent. Sorokin is said to have initially rented the apartment for six months with the help of a guarantor and has already paid three months’ rent in advance.
Anna Sorokin fooled New York society as a fraud
The release does not change the intention of the American authorities to deport Sorokin. For 18 months she has been trying to resist it.
Sorokin, born near Moscow in 1991, came to Germany with her parents as a teenager and then graduated from high school in Eschweiler near Aachen. She then moved to New York via London and Paris, where she posed as an heiress to millions in Manhattan’s high society under the pseudonym Anna Delvey and – according to a court ruling in 2019 – stole services worth more than $200,000.
Sorokin was sentenced to four years in prison but was released in early 2021 for good behavior. Shortly thereafter, she was arrested again because of an expired visa and has been in the facility of the immigration service ICE ever since. She has appealed several times against being deported to Germany. Sorokin’s story was filmed under the title “Inventing Anna” for the streaming service Netflix. According to her own statements, she is working on another documentary series, a book and a podcast.
Source: Stern
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