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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Fake heiress Anna Sorokin's NEW GIG: A REALITY SHOW

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Fake German heiress, Anna Sorokin conned her way into Manhattan society. Posing as Anna Delvey, a German heiress, she swindled banks, hotels, and friends out of more than $200,000 dollars. She forged checks to get money from banks and charmed people into paying for extravagant meals, and travel.

Sorokin was convicted on a handful of grand larceny and theft of services charges. After serving her time, the 31-year-old released from prison, now, fighting being deported, but again Sorokin falls on her feet. First, she landed a deal with Netflix for the rights to her life story, then began selling her artwork and now, Sorokin is getting a reality show

Delvey’s Dinner Club will follow the want-to-be socialite as she hosts “celebrities, moguls and glitterati” in her apartment.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

  • Wendy Patrick - California prosecutor, author “Red Flags” www.wendypatrickphd.com 'Today with Dr. Wendy' on KCBQ in San Diego, Twitter: @WendyPatrickPHD
  • Dr. Donna Rockwell - Clinicial Psychologist (Michgan/New York) Specializes in Celebrity Mental Health, Adjunct Faculty: Saybrook University: College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences, DonnaRockwell.com, CEO/Founder: “Already Famous with Dr. Donna"
  • Jim Ellis - Certified Fraud Examiner, Former FBI Agent (29 years), JKE Texas Private Investigator, JKETexas.com
  • Rebecca Rosenberg - Fox News Digital Crime Reporter, Author: "At Any Cost", RebeccaFayeRosenberg.com, Twitter: @ReRosenberg

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Ick crowd, they fall for it and they're falling over themselves to go on vacations

0:18.3

with her to lend her money to help her out because they believe she's sitting on a multi

0:24.9

million dollar estate.

0:27.0

I'll tell you what, when people smell money, it's just like dogs out in the dog parts,

0:34.7

sniffing each other's rear end, they sniff each other out at those Manhattan High society

0:43.2

parties and I can just see them falling for Anna Delvie.

0:48.8

Well, you know what?

0:50.4

Maybe they'll show up at her reality TV series.

0:55.5

Um, my understanding, I guess she's still on house arrest.

1:00.7

This reality TV series is set in a Manhattan apartment, oh, like her apartment, where

1:07.6

she hosts dinner parties while serving out the rest of her house arrest.

1:14.5

Now, that is just what I do not want to see.

1:17.7

A convicted felon, having a dinner party in her apartment wearing her ankle monitor.

1:27.6

Now how did the whole thing start?

1:30.4

I remember very well, do you?

1:32.9

Take a listen to Inside Edition.

1:35.6

She claimed she was a wealthy arrest from Europe worth more than 60 million dollars, but

1:42.0

it was a lie.

1:49.0

Anna Sorken went to prison for two years for defrauding banks, hotels and even her closest

1:50.0

friends out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

1:53.4

Her trial drew international attention.

1:56.0

This woman made national headlines posing as a wealthy woman.

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