New Scandal for Fake Heiress Ann 'Delvey' Sorokin
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 38 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. 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 was released from prison and is 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 then Sorokin said her home confinement and social media ban are “more restrictive” than jail.
Sorokin is back in the headline now over bunnies. She recently posed with three leashed bunnies in a Tribeca neighborhood. Then they were discovered in Brooklyn's Prospect Park days later, prompting fierce online backlash. Sorokin says she has received hundreds of death threats, even though she denies any responsibility.
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- Dr. William July: Psychologist
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.2 | Why won't she go away? |
| 0:13.9 | Why does she keep resurfacing? |
| 0:17.3 | Again, Anna Delvey, aka Anna Sorkin, the con artist, has reared her ugly head. |
| 0:25.7 | Yes, she's at it again, the fake heiress caught in a new scandal, this time involving |
| 0:33.2 | bunnies. |
| 0:35.1 | You know, the hippie-hoppy type of a little creature? Bunnies. Yes, bunnies. The con |
| 0:41.5 | artists who ripped her friends and others off to the tune of around $100,000 plus, Anna Delvey, |
| 0:49.5 | now accused of cruelly dumping baby bunnies in a public park after she used them in a photo shoot, |
| 1:02.0 | left them out there to die? |
| 1:04.9 | It never ends with this woman. |
| 1:07.6 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 1:08.4 | This is crime stories, and I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 1:12.0 | Yes, the fake heiress, con artist, caught in a brand-new scandal this time about bunnies. |
| 1:20.6 | The Russian, whose real name is Anna Sorkin, known for posing as a German heiress to climb the social ladder in Manhattan and defrauding |
| 1:32.3 | a series of banks, hotels, and individuals. I mentioned over $100,000. That was her friends, |
| 1:38.5 | but she ripped off other people to the tune of about $275,000. That's over a quarter of a million dollars. |
| 1:46.6 | And now she uses little bunnies in a photo shoot, and then they're found abandoned in a public |
| 1:55.0 | park in Brooklyn. |
| 1:57.2 | Now Delvey swear she has no idea how the bunnies were found for her photo shoot. |
| 2:04.1 | And some teen kit assistant has amazingly taken responsibility. |
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