Anna Sorokin: how do you fake your way into high society?

Beyond Today

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

High-end hotels, $100 tips, a $7000 a night trip to Morocco… when German heiress Anna Delvey hit the New York party scene it seemed like she had, and could spend, it all. But the lavish social life Delvey, real name Anna Sorokin, created for herself was, along with her pretensions of European aristocracy, eventually exposed as a lie. As she’s sentenced to at least four years in jail for crimes including stealing more than $200,000, the BBC’s Vicky Baker helps us uncover some of the truth behind the lies of the fake heiress. Producer: Harriet Noble Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.2	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.8	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.5	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today how do you fake your way into high society?
0:27.0	Right, so this is her. This is her on the left in the black gown with a dashing looking chap in a kind of weird coat.
0:40.0	Scarf coat thing. That's also her in a Polaroid with a woman in a fur coat so
0:47.0	this is her Instagram account as you see it's a mixture of her at parties with her friends, some expensive artworks.
0:56.0	And I guess the thing is that a lot of us are using Instagram to curate a life that we want other people to think that we have.
1:06.0	But this is a life that she stole $200,000 to fake.
1:12.0	And yesterday she was sentenced in a court in New York to four years in prison for that.
1:19.8	And she sold this lie to so many people.
1:22.1	She's got 65, what, 65.8,000 followers on Instagram.
1:26.2	I think a lot of those followers joined, like me, when she was found out.
1:31.7	But yes, her Instagram account account the Anna Delvy as we'll
1:36.0	discover even that name is fake.
1:38.8	Hello it's Harriet here.
1:41.8	Hi Harriet how are you good thank you. Good good yes.
1:44.7	Ficky Baker is a BBC journalist based in the US and she's been following the
1:49.3	story of Anna Delvy.
1:51.2	Matthew Price here who's just putting on his headphones.
1:55.0	Hello, hi. How you doing? Good thank you, how are you today?
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