over several years socialite anna delvey
accumulated an incredible amount of
wealth through deceptive means she
tricked not only her friends but also
banks hotels stores and more but just
how much money did she con from her
victims here's how much anna delby
really stole
born anna sorokin she changed her name
to anna delby in 2013. sorakan moved
from france to new york after completing
a fashion degree this was around the
time she first started scamming people
on a small scale she would pop into
parties or fancy restaurants eat and
drink and then skip out on the tab
her name is anna delvey or anna sorokin
no one's sure she's either a mega rich
german heiress or she's flat broke and
maybe she's russian
through 2014 and 2015 sorakan networked
with wealthy individuals and made
friends in high places but she would
frequently forget to pay her friends
back for thousands of dollars in
restaurant uber and clothing bills her
excuse was that she only carried cash or
that her credit cards would often be
declined the facade finally began to
crumble in 2016 when sorakan applied for
a loan for the anna delby foundation the
loan was a whopping 22 million dollars
for her aspirational foundation which
was to include restaurants art space a
juice bar and bakery in a critical
misstep sorakan falsified bank documents
using photoshop the bank denied her loan
sora can next try the same scheme at an
investment firm but they wanted her to
pay 100 000 before they would lend her
the 22 million dollars she convinced her
bank to let her overdraw her accounts
and funneled that money to pay the
investment firm the firm backed out of
the grandiose loan but instead of
repaying her bank sorakan splurged on
designer clothes a personal trainer in
high-end hotel visits hotels repeatedly
kicked sorakan out after a pattern
emerged where she would stay for days
and then failed to pay her bill she even
reportedly welshed on paying the 35 000
it cost for her to charter a plane for a
trip to nebraska and back rachel
williams who worked for vanity fair as a
photographer was once close friends with
the socialite in 2017 sorakan reportedly
told william she would pick up the tab
for their 7 000 per night hotel in
marrakech and even brought along her own
photographer documentarian the vacation
was lavish full of champagne tennis
lessons and custom outfits but williams
became outraged after their vacation to
morocco and sorkin disappeared without
paying a nearly seventy thousand dollar
bill when williams couldn't get
reimbursement for the trip she went to
law enforcement telling the new york
district attorney's office this girl is
a con artist williams also detailed her
friend's inner life saying that sorkin
would regularly spend 400 on her eyelash
extensions to her multi-million dollar
apartments and request off-menu meals at
expensive restaurants in an interesting
turn by the time her deceit was finally
found out sorakan was wearing the same
clothes for days on end couch surfing at
her friend's apartments and was caught
dining and dashing without paying for
her food her lies were unraveling her
father wasn't a wealthy oil billionaire
he was a truck driver she didn't have 60
million dollars on offshore accounts she
relied on other people's cash for nearly
everything the scams finally caught up
with the faux wealthy german socialites
in 2017. she was charged with one count
of theft of three hundred thousand
dollars and one count of attempted theft
of 22 million dollars sorkin was then
charged with 10 more counts of larceny
attempted larceny theft and attempted
theft as hotels banks and financial
institutions came forward with
allegations then in august 2017 she was
indicted for multiple counts of grant
larceny in the first second and third
degree misdemeanor theft check fraud and
theft of services sorkin had entered a
los angeles addiction treatment center
at this time but she was removed
arrested and sentenced to four to 12
years in state prison she was released
in 2021 but just one month after that
u.s immigration and customs enforcement
arrested her for overstaying her u.s
visa things didn't go well for her after
that
anna sorokin's lawyer says despite his
best efforts she is apparently back in
germany this morning
so how much did she steal total
estimates vary but the sum is at least
two hundred and seventy-five thousand
dollars after netflix picked up on the
wild tale and paid three hundred and
twenty thousand dollars for the rights
to her life story soraka paid about 223
000 in state fines and restitution check
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