Anna Sorokin, 28, was better known to her Manhattan friends as Anna Delvey.
NEW YORK: A German woman who posed as a wealthy heiress to scam New York hotels, fashionable friends and banks with a blizzard of forged documents was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison on Thursday after a jury convicted her of fraud last month.
“She wanted everything that big money could buy, except that Ms Sorokin didn’t have big money,” Kiesel said in court, decrying Sorokin’s taste for Sancerre wine and private jets. “All she had was a big scam.” Prosecutors pointed to her use of a stylist to pick out outfits for her trial as evidence that Sorokin lacked remorse.
Moments later, the judge waved a letter of support from three of Sorokin’s relatives, saying she did not know for sure if that document, too, was a forgery.Prosecutors say Sorokin used forged bank statements to seek a loan of US$22 million from a bank to fund a private arts club she wanted to open in Manhattan. She managed to get a US$100,000 loan, which prosecutors said she never repaid.
Sorokin’s daily looks became the subject of a dedicated Instagram account with thousands of followers, which the judge nodded to in her sentencing remarks.
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