The influencer who deceived the New York elite said, "I'd be lying if I said I'm sorry"

The German woman posing as a wealthy heiress and hotels and celebrity shops scammed in New York was sentenced on Thursday to a four to twelve year prison term, after a jury lodged a jail sentence. sentenced last month for several counts of theft.

Anna Sorokin, 28, was born in Russia and grew up in Eschweiler, Germany. At 19, she moved to Paris to study fashion, but it was only several years later, in New York, that she changed her identity and became Anna Delvery.

In an interview, he gave the newspaper
The New York Times, in the Rikers Island penitentiary complex, he said, "What is happening is that I do not regret it." He added: "I would lie to everyone and to myself if I said I'm sorry, I just regret how certain things were given."

According to the American newspaper, before ending the interview, she was asked if, if the opportunity arose, she would do the same. "Yes, probably," he replied with a laugh.

Sorokin admitted to falsifying bank statements and said he did so to try to open a private art club and "fulfill a dream". Even though she said that she had always intended to pay her creditors – two downtown hotels, a private jet company and banks – the jury that sentenced her to the month last found that she had cheated these places with more than $ 200,000.

As he told
The New York TimesIn summer 2013, when he went to New York for Fashion Week, the idea of ​​the young woman was not to stay alive, but to feel at ease and to start making friends. , decided to start again.

Anna Delvey, a high society in the making, is known among her friends in Manhattan. Little by little, the truth would begin to emerge.

Attorneys of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office have stated that Sorokin
He defrauded the others for about $ 275,000 while claiming to have $ 67 million in badets.

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