Sorokin, convicted in May 2019, was released Thursday after spending three years and four months in prison, and “will be on parole for 10 years,” her lawyer Audrey A. Thomas told AFP on Friday.
“They don’t know how exhausting the prison is,” fake Russian-German heiress Anna Sorokin, wearing black glasses and in bed, says on Instagram after nearly four years in prison for stealing about $ 275,000 from banks, hotels and friends.
Sorokin, convicted in May 2019, was released Thursday after spending three years and four months in prison, and “will be on parole for 10 years,” her lawyer Audrey A. Thomas told AFP on Friday.
“It didn’t get her cheap,” Thomas said, and he has insisted that Sorokin was not released early or as a result of the covid-19. “He can’t even open a bank account without permission from the parole committee.”
Thomas did not want to say whether Sorokin will be deported to Germany, as required by law since when she was convicted she had an expired tourist visa.
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“For Anna the next step is to rebuild her life, and live with an air of normalcy (…) I want people to understand that Anna is above all a human being,” the lawyer stated.
Shortly after leaving Albion Prison for medium security in New York State, Sorokin posted a black-and-white photo of himself to his more than 75,000 followers on Instagram.
In bed, wearing huge sunglasses between immaculate sheets, he wrote, “They don’t know how exhausting the prison is.” Many fans welcomed her and treated her as a “queen”.
Sorokin, 30, invented a new identity when she arrived in the United States in 2016, posing as an heiress when in fact she was the daughter of a former Russian truck driver who moved to Germany when she was 16 years old. .
With cunning lies and an unprecedented self-confidence, the young woman, who claimed to be Anna Delvey, sought a $ 22 million loan to found a private club, and managed to get several banks to leave her tens of thousands of dollars.
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After a month of trial, a jury found the young woman guilty of eight of the 10 crimes of fraud and theft that had been charged against her. She was sentenced to between four and 12 years in prison in May 2019.
Netflix bought the rights to her amazing story told by Jessica Pressler in New York magazine for a series written by producer Shonda Rimes (“Gray’s Anatomy”) starring Julia Garner.
Sorokin received tens of thousands of dollars from Netflix in rights and consulting, but spent the majority on lawyers and court-ordered fines and restitutions, according to various media outlets.
Actress, screenwriter and director Lena Dunham (“Girls”), who has a contract with HBO, later announced that she would also adapt the story to the girl screen, based on another Vanity Fair article written by a former ‘Anna, whom she swindled.