I feel like I'm more paranoid than I ever was, just about, like, things going bad. Just everything, … Now I feel like I'm at the mercy of public opinion, and I'm trying to stay away from seeing myself the way other people see me, but it's just really hard.

Anna Sorokin

Anna Sorokin (Russian: Анна Сорокина; born January 23, 1991) is a Russian-born German convicted con artist and fraudster. Between 2013 and 2017, Sorokin pretended to be a wealthy German heir under the name Anna Delvey. In 2017, she was arrested after defrauding or intentionally deceiving major financial institutions, banks, hotels, and acquaintances in the United States for a total of $275,000. In 2019, Sorokin was convicted in 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. Sorokin is currently held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody pending deportation. Netflix purchased the rights to a production relating to Sorokin and developed a television adaptation of her story entitled Inventing Anna, which was released in 2022 starring actress Julia Garner.

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