Anna Sorokin
Russian-born German fraudster
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| 2024 | A year after the event in 2023, Anna Sorokin walked for the fashion brand SHAO New York during New York Fashion Week. |
| 2024 | In 2024, Anna Sorokin, credited as 'Anna Delvey', participated in season 33 of the dancing competition TV show Dancing with the Stars, where she was paired with professional dancer Ezra Sosa. |
| August 2024 | The restriction prohibiting Anna Sorokin from accessing social media was lifted in August 2024. |
| September 13 2023 | During New York Fashion Week, Anna Sorokin hosted an event on the roof of her apartment, where she was under house arrest, collaborating with fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone. |
| 2022 | Anna Sorokin signed a deal with Bunim/Murray Productions to star in a reality television series about her life after prison. |
| October 2022 | Anna Sorokin was released from ICE detention in October 2022, but as a condition of her release, she was prohibited from accessing social media. |
| October 5 2022 | Anna Sorokin was granted a $10,000 bail bond and released from jail. |
| June 2022 | In June 2022, Anna Sorokin announced the launch of a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), creating 10 tokens that purportedly offered holders exclusive access to her. |
| May 2022 | Anna Sorokin appeared on an episode of Hilton's podcast 'This is Paris,' alongside sisters Paris Hilton and Nicky Rothschild. |
| May 19 2022 | 'Allegedly' opened in a nightclub at the Public Hotel in Manhattan, showcasing Sorokin's drawings in gold-plated frames. The event featured a prerecorded message from Sorokin and was attended by numerous reporters and publicists. |
| March 17 2022 | A pop-up group show titled 'Free Anna Delvey' took place at 176 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side, running until March 24, 2022. The event featured art from 33 artists inspired by Anna Sorokin while she was incarcerated. |
| March 1 2022 | While still incarcerated, Anna Sorokin joined a class-action suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, alleging that ICE refused her multiple requests for a COVID-19 vaccine booster. |
| February 2022 | The Netflix series 'Inventing Anna,' created by Shonda Rhimes and starring Julia Garner as Sorokin, was released and became the most-watched show on Netflix that week. |
| January 2022 | Anna Sorokin tested positive for COVID-19 while in jail and was placed in quarantine. |
| 2021 | Anna X, a stage play inspired by Sorokin's story, ran in London and Salford. |
| March 25 2021 | Six weeks after her release on parole, Anna Sorokin was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for overstaying her visa. She was held in a New Jersey county jail to await deportation to Germany, which she contested legally. |
| February 11 2021 | Anna Sorokin was released from prison on parole after serving her sentence. |
| January 2021 | In January 2021, Anna Sorokin penned a sarcastic letter to Donald Trump, anticipating his becoming a prisoner at Rikers Island. |
| 2019 | The New York Attorney General's office sued Anna Sorokin using the state's Son of Sam law, which prohibits those convicted of a crime from profiting from its publicity. |
| 2019 | Journalist Jessica Pressler wrote an article for New York about Anna Sorokin's life as a socialite. |
| December 2019 | Sorokin's story was the subject of 'Fake Heiress,' a drama-documentary podcast released by BBC Radio 4. |
| July 2019 | The book 'My Friend Anna' by Rachel DeLoache Williams, detailing her experiences with Sorokin, was published. |
| May 9 2019 | Anna Sorokin was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in state prison, fined $24,000, and ordered to pay restitution totaling $199,000. |
| April 25 2019 | After two days of deliberation, the jury found Anna Sorokin guilty of eight charges including grand larceny in the second degree and attempted grand larceny. |
| March 2019 | Sorokin's trial commenced on March 20, presided over by Judge Diane Kiesel, while she remained incarcerated at Rikers Island. |
| 2018 | Netflix paid Anna Sorokin $320,000 for the rights to her life story after Jessica Pressler published an article about her in New York. |
| 2018 | Rachel DeLoache Williams wrote a lengthy article for Vanity Fair detailing her experiences with Anna Sorokin. |
| December 18 2018 | Anna Sorokin appeared in New York City Criminal Court and rejected a plea deal offering three to nine years in prison. |
| 2017 | The NYPD arrested Anna Sorokin in a sting operation, assisted by her former friend Rachel DeLoache Williams, who accused Sorokin of defrauding her of $62,000. |
| October 2017 | Following her arrest, Anna Sorokin was indicted by a grand jury convened by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. The indictment included charges of two counts of attempted grand larceny in the first degree, three counts of grand larceny in the second degree, one count of grand larceny in the third degree, and one count of misdemeanor theft of services. |
| October 3 2017 | Anna Sorokin was arrested in a sting operation carried out by Officer Michael McCaffrey of the New York Police Department, in collaboration with the Manhattan District Attorney's office. She was apprehended outside a luxury rehab facility in California after a lunch meeting was arranged to facilitate her arrest. |
| August 17 2017 | On August 17, 2017, Sorokin allegedly deposited a bad check worth $15,000 into her account at Signature Bank, later withdrawing approximately $8,200 before the check was returned. |
| June 2017 | In June 2017, after accumulating an unpaid bill of $11,518, Sorokin was evicted from the Beekman Hotel in New York. |
| May 2017 | In May 2017, Sorokin invited her friends on an extravagant trip to Morocco, where she incurred a $62,000 hotel bill that she persuaded Rachel DeLoache Williams to pay, failing to reimburse her. |
| May 2017 | In May 2017, Sorokin booked a charter flight to Omaha to attend Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, using a forged wire transfer confirmation. |
| April 2017 | In April 2017, Sorokin deposited $160,000 worth of fraudulent checks into a Citibank account, managing to withdraw $70,000 in cash. |
| February 18 2017 | On February 18, 2017, Sorokin checked into a $400/night room at the 11 Howard hotel in Soho, Manhattan, where she built relationships with staff while running up a significant bill. |
| January 12 2017 | On January 12, 2017, Sorokin convinced City National to grant her a temporary overdraft facility of $100,000, which she promptly misused. |
| November 2016 | In November 2016, Sorokin submitted false documents as part of a loan application for $22 million to City National Bank, which ultimately refused her application. |
| February 2016 | Sorokin met Rachel DeLoache Williams, a Vanity Fair photo editor, at a nightclub while living at The Standard, High Line hotel. |
| January 2016 | In January 2016, Sorokin hired a public relations firm to organize her birthday party at Sadelle's restaurant, during which her credit card was declined. |
| 2015 | In 2015, Sorokin met art collector Michael Xufu Huang at a dinner party and later convinced him to book a trip to the Venice Biennale at her expense, which she failed to repay. |
| May 2014 | In May 2014, DJ Elle Dee described a strange encounter with Sorokin at a party in Montauk, where Sorokin pretended to be a wealthy heiress and asked partygoers for a place to sleep. |
| 2013 | Anna Sorokin moved to New York City, where she interned for the French fashion magazine Purple. |
| 2013 | In mid-2013, Anna Sorokin traveled to New York City to attend New York Fashion Week, opting to stay in the city and transferring to Purple's New York office. |
| 2012 | Sorokin briefly interned at a public relations company in Berlin. |
| 2012 | Sorokin relocated to Paris and earned around €400 per month at an internship for Purple, a French fashion magazine. |
| 2011 | Sorokin left Germany to live in London and Paris before relocating to New York City. |
| 2011 | After graduating, Sorokin moved to London to attend Central Saint Martins but soon dropped out and returned to Germany. |
| June 2011 | Sorokin graduated from Bischöfliche Liebfrauenschule Eschweiler, a Catholic grammar school in Germany. |
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