when a Hannah del V arrived on New
York's party scene in 2016 she turned a
lot of heads she was named dropping New
York's elite staying at lavish hotels
getting $400 eyelash extensions and
eating things that weren't on the menu
at some of New York's most expensive
restaurants places I couldn't get into
if I offered to pay double and sit in
the kitchen she often tipped in $100
bills even for things people don't tip
for point is she had all this money but
no one around her we knew where it was
coming from I had her pants were Russian
oil billionaires excuse me I have to get
a drink
no I heard they're billionaires but in
green solar energy by I said by growth
I heard her parents with diplomats and
she got all her money from a trust fund
bro and spot me bro actually none of
those are true an Adele these parents
are everyday people her dad drives a
truck in Germany she's just a really
good liar allegedly and those lies
defrauded banks hotels restaurants out
of hundreds of thousands of dollars
everyone Apache Jones and welcome to the
ball
today we're talking about an Adele V who
for years tricked the New York party
scene into thinking she was anyone but
who she actually was her story is wild
and fascinating okay friends buckle up
because here we go
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anas all over the party scenes in New
York City and the Hamptons
art gallery openings expensive dinners
luxury gyms the surf Lodge in Montauk
you name it she was there at this time
Anna had a big goal she wanted to buy
real estate specifically a building on
Park Avenue South in New York City it's
really big and features a 19th century
church on the property for Yunnan New
Yorkers
this is prime if this property was in
monopoly you'd want to own it you'd want
to build hotels on it and you'd want to
throw your success in your grandma's
face Anna was telling anyone who would
listen what her plans were for this
space she saw it as a dynamic visual
arts center that would include art
exhibits pop-up shops restaurants bars a
bakery and a juice bar but again buying
that space would be really expensive to
help her land this prized location and a
talk to banks about loans sought advice
from financial counselors and even hired
a PR company seems like she was gaining
momentum and then poof she leaves New
York telling some friends she needed to
leave the United States briefly for
Cologne Germany as part of a visa issue
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in February of 2017 Anna came back to
New York and checked into eleven Howard
from there she racked up a lot of bills
she would attend expensive personal
training sessions and eat at Lake CooCoo
which is a restaurant owned by eleven
Howard meaning she could charge these
meals to her hotel bill at the
restaurant Anna was a regular and
charming enough that the head chef
wouldn't mind making her elaborate
things that weren't on the menu I don't
think they'd even allow that at Denny's
now we've hit the first patch of trouble
for Anna 11 Howard realized they didn't
have a working credit card on file and
her bills were piling up don't forget
her lake cuckoo bills are on that tab as
well such a rich privilege to be like
let's put that on my tab while the rest
of us are getting yelled at for trying
to get free refills at Mickey D's still
Anna was able to buy herself some time
by wiring a portion of her tab to 11
Howard but not enough time and not
enough money during this controversy and
a left the city on a $35,000 private jet
ride to Warren Buffett's Berkshire
Hathaway annual stockholders meeting
in Omaha Nebraska yes I know she's
having money problems and also spending
$35,000 on a private jet we'll come back
to that I promise when she got back from
Nebraska Anna connected with Rachel
Williams a photo editor at Vanity Fair
in May of 2017 Anna Rachel and a few
other people went to Morocco and stayed
at an exclusive resort we're talking the
top of the top unable to afford the trip
herself Rachel wrote in her Vanity Fair
article that Anna essentially said no
trouble all on me we're talking airfare
hotels dinners Rachel had a sugar mama
taken or on the trip of a lifetime maybe
you can see where this is going because
this is the vault a show about crime and
not a show about people having super fun
times and trips during the trip the
hotel started hounding Anna for a
working credit card which she didn't
have they were polite about it at first
the king it was a misunderstanding but
eventually the hotel came down on their
group hard people from the hotel were
fired for this
there was a lot of pressure here so the
staff cornered Anna and Rachel in their
room and demanded someone hand over a
credit card that person ended up being
Rachel Rachel describes Anna as annoyed
that the hotel was holding her up and
said to Rachel listen it's just a little
mix-up can you cover this and I'll pay
you back in a week at the time Rachel
was making under sixty grand a year and
was now in the hole for more than sixty
two thousand dollars if you want more
details on the trip there was a great
article in Vanity Fair about it all when
Anne arrived back in New York City in
June of 2017 she couldn't go back to
eleven Howard because they locked her
out and took all of her stuff so Anna
checked into another luxury hotel the
Beekman I got the boot from them too
there she had racked up a bill of eleven
thousand dollars I still can't believe
these places let her go without a
working credit card on the spot but
that's the thing about Anna she was so
good at playing this rich character that
these places just assumed she was good
for the money
meanwhile Anna's situation was becoming
more dire
her biggest goal the property on Park
Avenue South was sold to someone else
the thing is if that venture was
successful she easily could have made
enough money to pay everyone back on top
of that the press caught up to her the
New York Post came out with an article
asking this woman was who keeps staying
at luxury hotels only to stiff them on
the bill and the press weren't the only
ones
turns out the New York DA was already on
to Anna Anna was arrested and charged
with grand larceny falsifying documents
theft of services and other charges she
allegedly built somewhere around two
hundred and seventy five thousand
dollars from banks restaurants hotels
and friends like Rachel Anna whose real
name is Anna Sorokin was born in 1991 in
Russia and now she could be facing as
much as 15 years of jail time
don't forget a lot of what she was
trying to do centered around buying
property for her visual arts center in
late 2016 she tried to secure that
funding by going to national bank and
asking for a twenty two million dollar
loan and she allegedly went into those
meetings with documents claiming that
she owned sixty million British pounds
in assets in one of the most amazing
examples of playing it cool she was
successful in that meeting National Bank
only wanted Anna to wire them a hundred
thousand dollars which would cover their
legal fees and also their costs of due
diligence and investigating her coming
up with that money wasn't particularly
hard
she went to fortress Bank and allegedly
said something like I have a loan coming
for twenty two million I just need one
hundred thousand dollars and when that
loan comes in I'll be able to pay you
back right away fortress was in and it
took that money and gave it to National
Bank so they could investigate her
there's also instances of her depositing
fake checks to banks like Citibank and
signature Bank somehow she was able to
pull funds out before the bank's
realized the checks were bad that's why
Anna always had cash on her she never
had credit cards she didn't have credit
and that's how she built a reputation
people saw her flashing cash all over
town but everything came crashing down
by February of 2017 she pulled out of
her deal with National Bank at that
point they had gone through fifty five
thousand of the one hundred thousand she
gave them to look into her that forty
five grand coming back to her butter
some time with eleven Howard that's why
she was able to wire part of her bill as
she went to Nebraska but as we know not
enough time without the National loom
she really was doomed
but there's another twist she owed
Rachel several hotels the PR company she
hired restaurants where she threw
parties remember the private jet
yeah she somehow got that trip on an IOU
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but all the press covering Ana's story
she seemingly is turned into the
celebrity she pretended to be there was
even a reported Netflix series in the
works where Ana will be played by
Jennifer Lawrence
that's as celebrity as it gets if there
was ever a movie about the vault I'd be
played by Macaulay Culkin at a set trial
in early of 2019 it was a bit of a
circus as Ana hired a fashion
coordinator to dresser and a very flashy
lawyer who began his opening statement
by talking about Frank Sinatra's new
york new york in fact
anna delayed the trial several times
because she didn't like what she was
wearing
in the end ana was found guilty on eight
charges she was found not guilty on
another charge of attempted grand
larceny for attempting to obtain that
twenty two million dollar loan and also
not guilty for allegedly stealing the
sixty-two thousand dollars for the
Morocco trip from Rachel Anna Sorokin
has been sentenced to four to twelve
years in jail she must pay two hundred
thousand dollars in restitution and a
twenty four thousand dollar fine the
thing is she would have served less time
had she accepted the plea deal it
offered her just one year behind bars in
an interview with the New York Times
Anna said she wasn't sorry and would
probably do it again however she may not
get the chance because once she's
released from prison US Customs and
Immigration says they'll look to deport
her back to Germany let's hope they're
paying attention over there
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