Anna Sorokin, also known as Delvey, captured the world's attention with the release of Netflix's Inventing Anna, with many viewers wondering what the fraudster has been up to since the gripping events of the show.
The infamous con-artist served four years in prison and just weeks after her 2021 release she was taken into ICE custody. Anna was released on October 7 and has since been on house arrest.
Her new home is an East Village apartment on the fifth floor of a walk-up building that is undergoing renovations. While it's likely more comfortable than the Orange County detention centre that Anna has been residing in for the past 17 months, it's nowhere near the glamorous hotels she was used to when she stole an estimated $275,000 from hotels, associates and financial institutions.
The one-bedroom apartment is reported to contain just a bed, two chairs, a small table and some artwork. It was found for the 31-year-old by her lawyer when Sorokin discovered she was being released from ICE custody. Reports in The Post claim that the one-bedroom was listed for $4,250 a month.
While Sorokin was paid a hefty sum, reportedly $320,000, from Netflix for the rights to her story that became the Emmy-nominated series 'Inventing Anna'. That money went on to pay for lawyers and restitution for her crimes - with Sorokin not being able to spend any of it on leaving prison.
Sorokin said: “That money was gone before I left prison, New York is so expensive, it’s crazy. It cost me like $160 to Uber back and forth to my parole in Brooklyn."
When asked if she would entertain the idea of another form of transport to meet with her probation officer, such as the subway. Sorokin decided that she would not.
The Russian born con artist was raised in Germany and possess an EU passport but chooses to live in New York City rather than any other city in the world.
She said: “If I wanted to wear nice clothes and be on somebody’s yacht, I could’ve done that. I could’ve done that last March. I still have access to the whole of Europe or to the rest of the world."
While Sorokin has been widely publicised as a 'fake heiress' she insists that she is not the one to have made those claims.
She said: "When I saw the headlines ‘con woman, fake heiress’, I didn’t see myself as such, at all. I never told anybody how much money I had. I never pretended to be anything. Somebody assumed I had all this money just because I was working on this project. I feel like that’s their problem."
Sorokin said that she has exciting plans for the future including a podcast as she continues to make a living from her art.
Her pencil based originals can sell for as much as $10,000 to $15,000 while she sells prints of her work at a starting point of $250. Her art is represented by the art dealer Chris Martine, who claimed that there is a waiting list to buy the artist's original works.
Sorokin claimed that $10,000 from her art sales is how she went on to pay the deposit on her apartment. Anna is reportedly not allowed on social media as a condition of her release.
