Inventing Anna’s Fake Heiress Anna Delvey Avoids Deportation From ICE Custody to Germany (UPDATE)

Update — March 16, 12:01 p.m. ET: 

German news site Der Spiegel reported that Anna Sorokin is still in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities and avoided deportation to Germany after her legal team filed a motion on Monday.

While ICE’s inmate communication system lists Sorokin’s status as “released,” her attorney has confirmed that she is still in a correctional facility in Goshen, New York.

“I spoke to Anna this morning. She was confused and a little concerned,” said Sorokin’s lawyer Manny Arora in a statement to the New York Post. “It’s hard [for her] to understand all the bureaucracy, especially given she’s locked up in jail for 20-plus hours a day and doesn’t have control. When you don’t know what your future holds, when you can’t call people when you want to to get information, it makes you anxious and frustrated. She’s staying positive, but it’s hard on her.”

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Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, the fake heiress and serial scammer whose exploits were immortalized in Netflix’s Inventing Anna, has been deported to Germany, according to Insider.

An attorney for Sorokin confirmed to the outlet that she was set to leave her jail in upstate New York around 2 p.m. on Monday “and be put on a plane headed to Germany.”

According to Insider, jail authorities drained Sorokin’s commissary funds and disabled the account she used for video calls at that time.

Sorokin shot to fame after managing to swindle more than $200,000 from New York City’s elite, financial institutions, hotels, and other establishments —  ultimately getting convicted in May 2019 on eight counts.

In order to con her way through New York City, Sorokin grossly misrepresented her finances and pretended to be a German heiress with a more than $60 million fortune.

Her father is reportedly a former truck driver from Russia who now operates a heating and cooling business in Germany.

The scams were a way for her to obtain loans for a company she called the Anna Delvey Foundation, which she compared to a Soho House style social club.

Sorokin’s charges, including grand larceny and theft of services, landed her a sentence of four to 12 years at Rikers Island, and a fine of $24,000 so that she could pay restitution to her victims.

Sorokin was released in February 2021 after completing her minimum four-year sentence, yet was quickly arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Lower Manhattan on charges of overstaying her visa.

Her appeal to remain in the United States was then denied on February 17 but the U.S. Justice Department Board of Immigration Appeals, giving authorities the ability to deport her.

“Since there is nothing pending before the Board, the applicant’s stay of removal, granted on Nov. 30, 2021, is no longer warranted and will be withdrawn. The stay will be denied,” an immigration appeals judge wrote in the decision, a copy of which was obtained by Insider.