Inventing Anna scammer Anna Sorkin released from prison, heads straight to Manhattan

The woman at the centre of popular Netflix series Inventing Anna has been freed from prison, heading straight to her old stomping ground on release.

Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin was freed from an upstate prison Friday and promptly headed to Manhattan after spending more than a year behind bars, law-enforcement sources said.

The 31-year-old con artist — who became the subject of the Netflix show Inventing Anna — was released from the Orange County Correctional Facility in Goshen and driven in a white van to FBI headquarters in lower Manhattan to fill out paperwork, the sources said.

Julia Garner portrayed the con artist in the popular series.

The fake German heiress has been behind bars for the past few years.

As she was processed for release, Sorokin was asked to produce forms detailing who she’ll be staying with and where under the terms of her home confinement, according to law enforcement sources.

Sorokin — who for years scammed wealthy New York socialites by posing as a phony heiress named Anna Delvey — is forbidden from using social media under the terms of her release.

Sorokin was found guilty of multiple felonies in 2019.

She must also remain under 24-hour house arrest with electronic monitoring, in addition to posting $10,000 bail, according to the judge’s order.

The phony heiress first served four years behind bars related to her years-long scamming spree and was released for good behaviour in June 2021.

She was soon rearrested by ICE agents and was detained in the upstate prison for 17 months.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post

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