They condemned the false heiress who deceived celebrities and bankers: "It's the life that she chose"

Sorokin, 28, was charged with eight fraud offenses for embezzlement of celebrities, bankers, artists and friends for nearly a year, between 2016 and 2017, he stole $ 275,000.

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"As the trial proved, Anna Sorokin committed white-collar crimes during her long deception," said Manhattan attorney Cyrus Vance in a statement.

With intelligent lies and incredible self-confidence, the young woman, who called herself Anna Delvey, asked several banks to lend her tens of thousands of dollars, traveled for free on a private plane and lived for month in luxury hotels in Manhattan, according to the New York Attorney's Office.

Daughter of a Russian truck dealer who moved to Germany at the age of 16, she also tried to get a $ 22 million loan to finance a private club in Manhattan that would house an art collection, a bar and a disco.

Sorokin, who frequented cream and cream from New York and wore Balenciaga and Alaïa clothes, was imprisoned with long hair and light brown hair. a year and a half in the infamous Rikers Island prison.

His lawyer, Todd Spodek, said in his closing remarks Tuesday that "in a city that favors money and the appearance of money," the girl must, like singer Frank Sinatra in the beginning, resort unorthodox ways to access opportunities

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Sorokin was only "saving time," Spodek told the New York Supreme Court jury. His behavior was "unorthodox, unethical (…) but that's the life that she chose", he added.

He even invited his ex-girlfriend, the Vanity Fair magazine's Rachel Williams, to a villa in Marrakech for $ 7,000 a night. She offered to pay for everything, but she then charged her the full bill: $ 62,000, more than the photographer's annual salary, which she never reimbursed.

Prosecutor Catherine McCaw, for her part, asked the jury to convict Sorokin because she counted "lie after lie" to commit offenses: forgery of account statements and bank transfers, identity documents and even invented two accountants suspected.

"The evidence is overwhelming"said the prosecutor in his final arguments.

Sorokin will be sentenced by Justice Diane Kiesel on May 9.