Anna Sorokin spent time in an ICE detention center in upstate New York. Six weeks after Sorokin was released from the Albion Correctional Facility on parole in February 2021, she found herself in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for overstaying her visa, according to The Cut.
Sorokin was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison on one count of attempted grand larceny, three counts of grand larceny, and four counts of theft of services. She served her time in Albion Correctional Facility until she was released on parole in February of 2021, getting out early for good behavior.
Let's cut right to the chase: No, Anna Sorokin is not still in prison. At least, not the same prison she was in when she was first sentenced back in 2019. Sorokin was released from there on parole in February 2021, after serving three years in her four-to-12-year sentence.
As seen in the Netflix series, which is modelled on the wild true story of Anna Delvey, Sorokin was convicted on multiple counts of attempted grand larceny, grand larceny and theft of services, for which she was sentenced to between four and 12 years imprisonment back in 2019.
Sorokin, 31, lived for several years in the 2010s as Anna Delvey, a wealthy German heiress of her own invention, convincing members of Manhattan's elite to finance her fine dining and travel.
Some of Anna's Escapades Were Made Up or Exaggerated
Plenty of the bizarre events of the series are real, but a few storylines are aggrandized or completely fabricated. Anna doesn't recall overstaying her welcome on an acquaintance's yacht, or racking up $400,000 on someone else's credit card at Bergdorf Goodman.
Netflix's Inventing Anna tells the wild true story of Anna Sorokin, who posed as a wealthy German heiress named Anna Delvey while living in N.Y.C. Inventing Anna is one of the latest true-crime series to hit Netflix.
Anna Sorokin is in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Where is Anna Sorokin now? For about a year now, the 31-year-old Sorokin has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention at a New York facility, fighting deportation to Germany, the Deseret News reported.
Police arrested Sorokin in 2017, and she spent about two years in jail on Rikers Island before her jury conviction. She served about another two years at Albion Correctional Facility in upstate New York until her release in February 2021.
The con artist — and dabbling artist — will remain at Goshen's Orange County Correctional Facility for now. Anna Sorokin, better known as Anna Delvey, is seen in the courtroom during her 2019 trial.
NEW YORK - Fake heiress Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, is still in ICE custody fighting extradition, officials have confirmed to FOX 5 News. "Sorokin was granted an additional stay of removal by the 2nd Circuit Court on March 21.
As Pressler reported, Sorokin claimed assets of around $60 million, which she said was in a German trust, and sought a $22 million loan to acquire the pricey piece of Park Avenue real estate she hoped would house her organization.
Anna Delvey was the pseudonym used by a German woman named Anna Sorokin who moved to New York in 2013. Under the fake name, Sorokin pretended to be a wealthy German heiress in order to establish herself in New York's social scene.
Inventing Anna reveals that Anna had been using a burner phone with a European SIM to fake the calls; she had also bought a voice disguising software so that her voice would sound like a German man's. In real life, Sorokin did give Alan the details of one Peter Hennecke.
Netflix Anna claims to have a photographic memory and to speak seven languages. “Not seven,” Sorokin clarified. “I speak four languages—in three voices.”
Nora Radford is a former friend and mentor of Sorokin
According to Netflix Queue, Anna Sorokin allegedly charged over $40,000 in shopping expenses to a former friend and mentor's credit cards. However, there's no proof that Agnes Gund is the friend who is portrayed as Nora Radford in Inventing Anna.
A Journalist Explains What's Fact and Fiction. Former investigative journalist Esther Haynes weighs in on the accuracy of Inventing Anna. The investigative journalism we see on TV is completely true — except for the parts that are completely made up.
Her father, Vadim, worked as a truck driver while her mother owned a small convenience store. In 2007, when Sorokin was 16, her family relocated to North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. There, her father became an executive at a transport company until the company became insolvent in 2013.
On Monday, March 14, 2022, Delvey was released from ICE custody and will be deported to Germany. German paper Der Spiegel reports that her deportation failed when she refused to leave the ICE detention center to go to the airport. Delvey's lawyer told the New York Post that a motion to stay the deportation was filed.
Her father is living in her hometown in Germany
At the time, her father, Vadim Sorokin, was a truck driver who was about to open a heating and cooling business, and her mother, whose name is unknown, owned a small convenience store.
Lee Soik was born in South Korea, then got adopted and moved to Wisconsin, US. He moved to California as an adult, but a Fast Company profile from 2014 reported that he lives out of temporarily rented homes in Berlin, San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles.
Anna Chlumsky as Vivian Kent (based on Jessica Pressler)
Anna Chlumsky (of VEEP fame), plays fictional Manhattan magazine journalist Vivian Kent, who is based on the previously mentioned American journalist and New York Magazine writer, Jessica Pressler.
She claimed she was a German heiress, when in reality, her mom owned a small convenience store and her dad worked as a truck driver before he opened his own heating-and-cooling business.