What did Anna Sorokin do?īetween 20, Sorokin borrowed money from friends, including art collector Michael Xufu Huang, who told New York magazine that she forgot to pay him back "two or three thousand dollars" for flights and a hotel booking, although according to Artnet, he said he was eventually repaid from a Venmo account in a different name. She also convinced banks to lend her hundreds of thousands of dollars and deposited fraudulent cheques whilst defrauding hotels by managing to avoid giving a credit card. Over the next five years, she would scam a number of acquaintances out of thousands of dollars by promising to pay for plane tickets and hotels and "forgetting" to pay them back, all whilst claiming that she had family money. Once in New York, she transferred to Purple's office in the capital and began mixing with the wealthy members of the New York art scene, pitching her idea of the Anna Delvey Foundation, a private members' club and art foundation, to investors. She had previously been enrolled at Central Saint Martins in London but dropped out and relocated to Paris, which is where she swapped her last name Sorokin for Delvey. The 31-year-old, who was born in Moscow before her family relocated to Germany, moved to New York City in the summer of 2013 for Fashion Week whilst working for French fashion magazine Purple. Anna Delvey – real name Sorokin – is a Russian-born woman who pretended to be a wealthy German heiress to con banks, hotels and members of New York high society out of large sums of money.
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