![]() ![]() Yet, the irony is we’re all more at risk of being scammed in our own lives than ever. Whether it’s the Fyre Festival scandal (when organiser Billy McFarland set up a fraudulent “luxury” music festival in 2017), or the Tinder Swindler (when Simon Leviev defrauded victims he met on Tinder out of millions of dollars), or the real-life scam artist strippers portrayed in Jennifer Lopez’s 2019 film Hustlers: scamming has been turned into a cult obsession in recent years. I was like, ‘I already did everything that they wanted me to do.’ What else do you want from me?” Billy McFarland, who set up the fraudulent ‘luxury’ music festival Fyre, leaving Manhattan Federal Court on 1 July 2017 (Photo: Jefferson Siegel/New York Daily News/Tribune Daily News/Getty)Ĭan we blame Sorokin, though, for wanting to continue her life as Delvey? After all, our society loves to reward scammers with pop culture infamy (which brings with it social media followers and yet more cash). “If I were in a position of authority, and if I looked at somebody like myself, the younger generation to look at me and say that an okay thing to do. “I realise how toxic it could be seen,” she told Variety two weeks ago. Sorokin still wants to be Anna Delvey, and she is still reaping the rewards of her crimes. ![]() Sorokin has, in fact, attacked one of her victims online, saying that former friend Rachel DeLoache Williams (who penned a book, My Friend Anna, about how Anna conned $67,000 out of her while she was working as a picture editor at Vanity Fair), was simply “looking for things to get outraged about”. ![]() She is still yet to publicly apologise to her victims, or admit any particular wrongdoing. ![]() The sentiment seems to sum up Sorokin’s jarring attitude to everything that has happened, and the trail of chaos and ruined lives she has left behind her. It is galling that Sorokin has quickly made almost that amount since she was locked up in 2019, simply by selling her own art works (which start at $15,000) which she created in prison, and giving TV interviews – using the money to post her own bail and pay for an apartment in the East Village. She is now seemingly intent on building a post-scammer empire, and being famous for everything she does after she conned an estimated $275,000 (£226,000) from investors, banks and friends by persuading them she was a German heiress in the process of setting up a members-only arts club in Manhattan. The 31-year-old isn’t content with already being a household name as a result of the crimes which landed her a two-year sentence in New York’s notorious Rikers prison, and a subsequent 18 month stint in ICE detention after overstaying her visa. Well, freedom with an ankle bracelet – she is still under house arrest until further notice. It might have been tricky to miss, however, because the Russian-born, New York based scam artist, who became famous after a slew of podcasts, news articles and a Netflix series about her crimes, has been conducting an exhaustive publicity tour, with interviews in titles such as Variety, The New York Times and Grazia magazine, to mark her freedom. In case you missed it: Anna Delvey (born Anna Sorokin) is out of prison. ![]()
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