Was Anna Sorokin really an heiress? What does Anna Delvey do now?

Anna Sorokin is a Russian-born German convicted con artist and fraudster.

Between 2013 and 2017, Anna Sorokin pretended to be a wealthy German heir under the name Anna Delvey.

In 2017, she was arrested after defrauding or intentionally deceiving major financial institutions, banks, hotels, and acquaintances in the United States for a total of $275,000.

In 2019, Anna Sorokin was convicted in New York state court of attempted grand larceny, larceny in the second degree, and theft of services, and was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison.

Netflix purchased the rights to a production relating to Sorokin and developed a television adaptation of her story entitled Inventing Anna, which was released in 2022 starring actress Julia Garner.

Netflix’s 9-episode series titled Inventing Anna, created by Shonda Rhimes and in which Sorokin was played by Julia Garner, was released in February 2022 and was the top watched program on Netflix during the first week it was released.

In 2022, Anna Sorokin signed a deal with Bunim/Murray Productions to star in a reality television series about her life after prison and is also working on a book about her time in jail and a podcast.