Sorokin has not been in contact with her parents since her conviction, and they did not attend her trial. READ MORE: Linda's life changed the second she locked eyes with a customer across the department store On behalf of Purple magazine, in 2013, Sorokin attended New York Fashion Week, and ultimately decided to stay in the city. Sorokin left Germany when she was 19 for Paris, where she pursued a fashion degree - this is when she took on the name Anna Delvey. In the essay, Sorokin also disclosed that she tested positive for COVID-19 on January 19, was in quarantine, and hadn't "been this sick in years."Īlthough Sorokin was born just outside of Moscow in Russia, she and her brother were raised in a middle-class family predominantly in Germany.
Despite all that, I've yet to be given a clear and fair path to compliance." "I did not break a single one of New York state's or ICE's parole rules. "My visa overstay was unintentional and largely out of my control," Sorokin wrote in an essay for Insider explaining what is happening with her now, within which she also said she is appealing her criminal conviction. READ MORE: Lily James breaks silence on Dominic West scandal Anna Sorokin during her trial. Sorokin was consulted for the project, but said she feels like "an afterthought" as the story is told "from a journalist's perspective." Because she is in custody without a laptop or television easily-accessible, she won't be watching Inventing Anna when it airs - and also doesn't see the appeal of "seeing a fictionalised version of myself in this criminal-insane-asylum setting." Sorokin overstayed her United States visa, and is waiting to see if she will be deported to Germany. Sorokin, who is now aged 31, is currently in the custody of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and has been so ever since her release from prison in February 2021. $280,000) in restitutions to the banks that she owed money, and US$24,000 (approx. Of the $320,000 sum, per Insider, Sorokin reportedly paid US$200,000 (approx. This money was frozen, however, so victims of her crimes could make claims through filing lawsuits, which some of them did. To adapt her life story, Netflix reportedly paid Sorokin US$320,000 (approx.