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Anna Sorokin aka Anna Delvey at a court hearing in 2019
Photo: Mary Altaffer/ AP
The deportation of the German impostor Anna Sorokin to her homeland failed at the last minute on Monday evening.
According to SPIEGEL information, the US immigration authority ICE wanted to take the 31-year-old on a United scheduled flight from New York to Frankfurt, which was supposed to leave the United States at around 9 p.m. (local time).
Shortly before driving to the airport, however, Sorokin's lawyers, who had already served a prison sentence for fraud in the USA, were able to stop the deportation.
Apparently, a deadline for the final decision had not yet expired.
The US authorities are now trying to find a new deportation date.
Sorokin apparently wants to do everything in his power to stay in the United States.
There she is a kind of celebrity, especially after the successful Netflix series »Inventing Anna« and can get involved in interviews and podcasts about her bizarre story of fraud.
In Germany, however, a less glamorous life is likely to await them.
Sorokin was born in January 1991 as the daughter of a Russian truck driver in Domodedovo near Moscow.
In 2007 the family moved to Germany with the then 16-year-old Sorokin.
In the years that followed, Anna Sorokin graduated from high school and then went to London and Paris for various small jobs.
Sorokin came to New York City in 2016, and the big scam began in the US metropolis.
Sorokin posed as Anna Delvey and said she was a wealthy heiress.
Between November 2016 and August 2017, through clever lying and self-confidence, she managed to get tens of thousands of dollars in loans from various banks, travel for free on private planes, and live in luxury hotels in Manhattan for months without paying the bills.
She also attempted to start a hybrid nightclub/art gallery by borrowing $22 million using forged documents.
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