A lawyer for Anna “Delvey” Sorokin said Monday he has heard nothing from the notorious socialite who scammed friends and businesses while posing as a German heiress and believes she is being deported after nearly a year in immigration and customs custody.
Lawyer Manny Arora said Monday afternoon that he was unable to contact the 31-year-old woman.
“Legally, they shouldn’t be able to deport her until the 19th. That’s because the deportation order was signed on February 17, which gives us 30 days to appeal,” Arora said in a statement. “But we’re dealing with bureaucracy and there are numerous files in her case, so you never know if there’s a paper error. I haven’t heard from Miss Sorokin this afternoon, so I’m assuming they’re being deported. “
ICE did not respond to a request for comment.
Sorokin, the subject of the Netflix series “Inventing Anna,” spent about four years in prison after being found guilty of defrauding and attempting to defraud banks and hotels worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Sorokin falsely claimed to be a German heiress named Anna Delvey, who had a $60 million inheritance and was raising money to start a social club in Manhattan. She has defrauded hundreds of thousands of dollars from friends, banks and luxury hotels in New York City to promote her lavish lifestyle.
She was released on parole more than a year ago, but six weeks later she was taken into custody for overstaying her visa. Sorokin appealed to remain in the United States and was scheduled for a hearing on April 19.
Sorokin was recently part of a class-action lawsuit that sued ICE for refusing to give Covid vaccines to inmates. In the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, she said she contracted Covid-19 after being denied multiple requests for a booster shot.
Sorokin’s ascension to New York City’s affluent social scene, as well as her crimes, were popularized by the 2018 profile in The Cut, which inspired the Netflix series. Netflix paid Sorokin $320,000 and she served as a consultant on the Shonda Rhimes-produced show.
She told a New York Times reporter that she is not as “brutal and shameless” as the show portrayed her.
“I don’t think I order people that much,” Sorokin told reporter Emily Palmer in a video on TikTok.
Sorokin’s best friend Neffatari Davis, who also worked on “Inventing Anna” and was a character on the show, told the New York Post that Sorokin paid her dues.
“She got out on good behavior and she used the money Netflix gave her to pay everyone back. She owes no money,” Davis said. “She was paid for her crimes, she didn’t kill anyone. She did it wrong, but in the end there are people who have done it worse.”
