When Pressler came into contact with her family, they asked to remain anonymous at the time, as the news had not yet reached their small community at home. She transferred over to Purple magazine’s New York office.Ĭurrently, Sorokin is not in contact with her family, with her father apparently stating that he has disowned her. While in New York for New York Fashion Week during the summer of 2013, Sorokin decided she wanted to stay in the city full-time rather than be in Paris as she supposedly found it easier to make friends there.
However, she quit and returned home to Germany before relocating to Paris, where she began interning at a fashion magazine, Purple, and started identifying as “Anna Delvey.” When she was 16, her family moved to Germany.Īfter graduating high school in 2011, she moved to London to pursue an education at Central Saint Martins, a college well-known for its fashion program. 23, 1991 and is from a small town in Russia called Domodedovo, just an hour outside Moscow. Who exactly is Anna Delvey?Īnna Delvey, née Sorokin, was born on Jan. Here, WWD breaks down all the details we know about Anna Sorokin so far. It was there, shortly after quitting Purple, that she got the idea for her foundation and thusly, her new identity as a millionaire socialite.Kim Kardashian’s Paris Couture Week Style In 2013, she traveled to New York for New York City Fashion Week and decided to stay. She was already infatuated with fashion, but while in Paris, she decided to start going by Anna Delvey. But something changed when she moved to Paris to intern at the magazine Purple. She was quiet and had trouble learning the language. She grew up in a small town southeast of Moscow before moving to a small village in Germany when she was 16.
The real Anna was the daughter of a Russian truck driver and convenience store owner. Intermixed with real quotes and recorded interviews with childhood friends and her defrauded victims, “Fake Heiress” immerses you in Sorokin’s odd plan that somehow worked. The story is entirely true, with maybe a few hyperbolized details here and there (not the important details, though), but presented as a scripted podcast.
Baker is the BBC Radio 4 reporter who gathered the details and interviews for this story, while Moss is the screenwriter who created the script. “Fake Heiress” is hosted by Vicky Baker and Chloe Moss, who describe this podcast as a mix of drama and documentary. She even defrauded multiple banks and hotels, convincing them to provide her with hefty loans and handing out IOUs to five star hotels
Everything about con-artist Anna Sorokin’s story is completely crazy, but it was just crazy enough to convince plenty of New York City socialites to hand over their money and resources to the fraudulent Anna Delvey Foundation. Six episodes, each just about half an hour long, are about a story that, if it were a movie, critics would call far too on the nose. ‘Queen of the Con: The Irish Heiress’ hoodwinked victims from Belfast to Los Angeles