‘Inventing Anna’ Fake Heiress Anna Sorokin Facing Imminent Deportation – Reports
deadline.comAnna Sorokin, the convicted swindler whose criminal adventures formed the basis of the hit Netflix 2022 series Inventing Anna, will soon be deported to Germany – if she hasn’t already been sent packing.According to various media reports today, Sorokin – the real name of the self-invented Anna Delvey – was released from ICE custody yesterday and was no longer being detained in an upstate New York detention facility.
Though her criminal defense lawyer Todd Spodek has declined comment, sources have told both The New York Times and the New York Post that Sorokin’s deportation was imminent, with the Post reporting that she was expected to board a flight to Frankfurt last night.Sorokin had been fighting deportation for a year, having completed her prison stint for the crimes depicted in the Shonda Rhimes-created series in February 2021.
Last March, she was detained at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Lower Manhattan after a routine check-in, and was then arrested on charges of overstaying her visa.
She’s been held at detention centers in New Jersey and New York since her ICE arrest.Last month, Sorokin confirmed that she was working with Surviving R.
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