Fake Heiress Anna Delvey Sends Bold Message to Her Visitors in Prison

Notorious fake heiress Anna Delvey, with a real name Anna Sorokin, said she no longer wants people to be randomly dropping by to visit her in prison.

"The days of hoping to catch me slipping are over, and all you're achieving by coming here is wasting your time and interfering with my sleep schedule," she wrote in an Instagram post, as reported by Business Insider.

She added that she will not be making the same mistake of not checking the visitor's identity again and will not be accepting visits from the names she does not recognize.

Delvey was sentenced to four to twelve years of imprisonment in May 2019 after she was convicted on many charges connected to her pretending to be a German heiress.

Who Is Anna Delvey?

Delvey is notorious for mingling in New York's elite and claiming to be rich. She was born in Russia with a German citizenship.

Her family moved to Germany when she was a teenager, earning her citizenship. According to Daily Mail, Delvey was convicted of multiple counts of attempted grand larceny, theft of services, and larceny on the second degree.

This for defrauding New York hotels and wealthy acquaintances.

She was sentenced to serve four to 12 years in state prison, and was fined $24,000 and ordered to pay restitution of about $199,000. Jurors were told how Delvey resided in luxury New York hotel rooms that she could not afford.

Delvey was also known to promise an all-paid expense trip to Morocco to a friend. The friend later on paid the bill, amounting to $62,000.

Delvey also peddles bogus bank statements in her quest for a $22 million loan for a private arts club.

During the court battle, prosecutors pictured Delvey as a prolific con artist. Her lawyer, meanwhile, pushed that she was an aspiring businesswoman taken in by New York's luxury.

Her defense attory, Todd Spodek, explained that Delvey had been "buying time" and planned all along to settle her six-figure debts. Spodek went further and compared her to Frank Sinatra, citing that they both created their own opportunities in the city.

"There's a little bit of Anna in all of us. This is the life she chose to live," Spodek was quoted in a Daily Mail report.

Delvey was granted a parole and could be released as early as next year.

Delvey's Life

Delvey's father was a truck driver, who later became a transport company's executive. The said company then dissolved in 2013.

Her father then opened a heating-and-cooling business specializing in energy-efficient equipment.

Delvey attended Central Saint Martins fashion school and interned in the fashion department of a public relations firm, upon her return to Berlin.

She then moved to Paris and got an internship from French fashion magazine Purple. Later on, she changed her name from Sorokin to Delvey.

She arrived in New York in early 2016 and had the social connections.

'Inventing Anna'

The notoriety of her crime resulted into a series about her called 'Inventing Anna.'

The said series is in the works at Netlix and Shonda Rhimes is one of the executive producers, according to a Harper's Bazaar article. The series will be filmed in New York.

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