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New York, watch out. Infamous grifter Anna Sorokin (Delvey) is out of jail! Actually she’s on house arrest in an East Village apartment without access to electronics or social media, but she made time to speak to The New York Times reporter lurking outside of her building the night she was released. Apparently the immigration judge doesn’t believe Anna is remorseful about her crimes, but shrugged and said she’s probably not a danger to the community anymore either. So she’s out and can contest the visa thing from house arrest. Wow, that’s lucky. Some excerpts from her interview are below.
After 18 months in ICE detention, you’re out on house arrest with an ankle bracelet. How do you feel?
I’m really happy. Nothing was guaranteed. They denied bail before. It was an exercise in perseverance. So many immigration lawyers told me I’d get deported to Mars before I’d get out in New York. And I just had to find the person who’d align with my vision, not accept “no” for an answer and make it happen.You didn’t have to stay behind bars. You could have fought your immigration status from Germany.
I just did not want it to go down the way ICE wanted it to. Letting them deport me would have been like a sign of capitulation — confirmation of this perception of me as this shallow person who only cares about obscene wealth, and that’s just not the reality. I could have left, but I chose not to because I’m trying to fix what I’ve done wrong. I have so much history in New York and I felt like if I were in Europe, I’d be running from something. But if jail does not prove people wrong, then what will?So why is house arrest better?
Better food, I guess. And I can have visitors beyond just 1:30 p.m. on Thursdays. We’ll just see what I can do from here. I guess everybody will be coming to me.What are you most excited about doing now that you’re out?
Finding my way back.With an ankle bracelet.
With an ankle bracelet, yeah. Apparently if I have any issues with it, then somebody will come fix it. It’s a 24/7 service. I’m thinking what I can do with it.
You want to glam it up?
I’m not a glam-it-up type of person, but the possibilities are endless.When we spoke earlier this year, you said that you had changed a lot since the crimes you committed in your mid-20s. But the judge’s order doesn’t seem convinced of your remorse.
I definitely have a way different perspective now than I did when I came out the first time last February. It’s just impossible to have been through what I’ve been through without changing. I learned so much being in jail. There’s a very well-documented arc about how I’ve felt about everything. It wouldn’t be right if I were just to switch in one day. That would be very disingenuous. It’s a process. I am regretful about the way things played out. The way I’ve tried to see my experience is to learn from it: Who I am today is because of the decisions I made in the past.Where does your celebrity status fit into your future plans?
It’s literally the last thing I’m thinking about right now. I don’t feel like I have a lot of control over it, especially now that I’m in house confinement without access to social media or electronics.This isn’t the end of your immigration case. You could still be deported.
My immigration case is just beginning. I’m creating a lot of jobs for my lawyers. So everybody’s happy.
So you’ll be in New York for a while.
I’m really, really happy about that. That’s exactly what I wanted. I’m just hoping to get more freedom eventually. And hopefully, ICE will see that New York will remain safe — even if one day I’m able to leave this apartment.
Guys, she just “didn’t want it to go down the way ICE wanted it to go down.” Wow, it must be a really nice (white) privilege to “not accept ‘no’ for an answer” regarding deportation and not “capitulate” to ICE. It must be so nice to be able to decide things like that and go around ICE to stay in New York and grift another day. She’s far more dangerous to the community than most of the people ICE deports who just want to make better lives for their families, but sure. She’s creating jobs for lawyers, she’s doing a service. Anyway, Anna is as pretentious and self-important as ever. She plays coy about her finances (probably all that money from selling her story), but had to put a lot of money down up front for her East Village apartment (a walk-up, at least). She’s going to do a podcast and has a book coming out. Well. I agree with the judge. The only thing Anna is sorry about is that she got caught. Still the same old Anna, pursuing fame and fortune, but swearing that she isn’t.
Anna Sorokin, the convicted fraudster who posed as an heiress, sat down for her first interview since her release from jail. She discussed her evolution since her Anna Delvey days and what she plans to do now that she’s no longer behind bars. https://t.co/pBGa5thac8
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 9, 2022
I don’t get it. If she is to make money off her “fame” shouldn’t that money go to the some of the people she defrauded? In any case, she does not look very remorseful to me either. She is the daughter Donald Trump would have loved to have.
Oh my god, she’s such a terrible person, I can’t stand reading what she has to say. Everything that comes out of her mouth is manipulative and she has learned absolutely zero. She had to find a person who would align with her vision! WTF? Deport her! Here in Germany chances are lower that she’ll manage to pull sh*t like she did again.
Let’s call a spade a shovel. Fraudster is such a gentle word. She’s a thief. A crook. A liar. A criminal.
She is all those things with little remorse or self-reflection. She learned nothing in jail. I didn’t really follow her case or this story, but she comes across as such a snot.
I hate when people diagnose strangers, but I can’t with this one — she comes across as a sociopath to me. That, and a common crook.
Yeah, “I am regretful about the way things played out.” is not remorse.
People committing crimes then getting to profit in the form of book deals, etc. is just so wrong.
Why would anyone fight deportation to Europe? How is detention and a criminal case better than sidewalk cafes and gothic churches?
Like I said above, I suspect because the celebrity game is played differently here and the uber-wealthy are harder to scam. They don’t even like people to know who they are. We have no Elon Musks in terms of famewh*ring. She needs to make money and I’m not sure how her “skills” would translate. There’s a reason she went to the US.
The answer is because there’s less tacky ostentatious wealth? Gah. Most of us would consider that a plus. 🤦♀️
LOL I mean that’s just my two cents but yeah, I don’t see how she could make it work here. I could tell you the names of two or three extremely rich German families (because I know who owns BWM for example) but I wouldn’t recognize their faces.
ETA: They’re also not as concentrated in one place. Where would she go? Most of our uber rich don’t live in Berlin for example.
ETA2: Oh! AND they will drag you to court. LOL A long time ago, the richtest woman in Germany was scammed by a man pretending to be in love with her. He blackmailed her. She said f*ck you and went to court. That is the only reason I know of her.
I LOVE Berlin. To me it’s one of the most exciting cities for a bohemian style culture. I’m too young to have experienced London or Paris when they were accessible to struggling artists. But Berlin is all that I’ve ever heard those cities once were. I’m not at a great place in my life to uproot everything and move there. But if I were her, a young German with passion and creativity, I’d choose Berlin 1000x over New York. But we’ve already established she’s not a rational person.
My phone has been promoting this article to me in my news feed. I just can’t get over the question of why there’s an *NYT* article about how this woman feels about being let out of prison. Of course, she’s happy about it; she was in prison. And she’s a con woman whose con apparently worked because of a deep, pathological belief that she deserved extreme wealth.
But … why are the rest of us supposed to care?!
(In the interests of transparency, I didn’t read the NYT article. Maybe there’s something deeper going on?)
@MadameX: I wish more people were asking that question! Why, indeed, is the NYT giving this grifter publicity? (I didn’t read the article either, but I think I’ve grasped Anna Sorokin’s value to society.) Can we all, please, talk more about how the “paper of record” has utterly lost the plot?
In my opinion, the NYT is as cheap and awful as The Enquirer. It used to be very prestigious, and now it just lays on the bottom of my bird cage w/o being read.
This is infuriating. Black and brown people get deported for less than what she did.
Yes, please send her back already.
Exactly, just ask the Haitian refugees. Send this trash bag back to her home.
This is ridiculous. I hope ICE sees this interview and appeals the ruling to let her out; it’s not supposed to be about “aligning with her vision,” and if she’s talking about “trying to fix” things it means she’s planning another grift – it’s the only thing she knows how to do.
I can’t stand this woman. She has zero remorse and still believes she’s way more importance than she actually is. Total sociopath. I agree with others, send her back already. She’s overstayed her welcome on another level. She will keep on grifting like grifters do if she has the opportunity for it.
This is insanely ludicrous and irresponsible. If any one person should be in prison besides 45, it’s this dangerous bitch.
Where did she get the money? And what will she do, when her fifteen minutes are well and truly over?