Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin set to be deported to Germany

‘Fake heiress’ Anna Sorokin has been released from a New York detention centre and is set to be deported from the US.

‘Fake heiress’ Anna Sorokin has been released from an upstate New York detention centre and is being deported from the US after nearly a year in custody, a source exclusively told the New York Post.

She is reportedly set to board a flight to Frankfurt on Monday night US time (Tuesday morning AEDT), sources revealed.

The 31-year-old is said to be furious about the deportation, according to one close source, as she had put in an appeal to remain in the US. The appeal was meant to be heard on April 19, New York Post reports.

Sorokin has been at the Orange County Correctional Facility in Goshen, New York, since March 25 for allegedly overstaying her visa.

She’s reportedly due to appear on the Call Her Daddy podcast on Wednesday.

Want a streaming service dedicated to news? Flash lets you stream 25+ news channels in 1 place. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. Offer ends 31 October, 2022 >

Anna Sorokin, pictured in court in 2019, is being deported from the US. Picture: Timothy A Clary/AFP

The 31-year-old’s story was the inspiration for the Netflix show Inventing Anna. Picture: Instagram

Last month, Sorokin – whose life and crimes are glamorised in the Netflix hit Inventing Anna – and three other Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees sued federal immigration authorities after getting Covid-19 while in custody.

Sorokin tested positive for the virus on January 19, weeks after she submitted a written request for a follow-up vaccine dose that went unanswered, according to the complaint filed in federal court by the ACLU.

The plaintiffs claimed that ICE violated their constitutional rights as medically vulnerable people by ignoring their booster requests.

How ‘fake heiress’ swindled the Big Apple

Sorokin came to New York City in 2013 to set up a high-end members-only arts club, according to her former defence lawyer Todd Spodek, but things spiralled out of control.

She claimed to be an heiress named Anna Delvey. In reality, Anna Sorokin was born in Domodedovo, a working-class town southeast of Moscow. Her father, Vadim Sorokin, worked as a truck driver, while her mother owned a small convenience store. The family moved to Germany in 2007, when Sorokin was 16.

Sorokin’s best friend Neffatari Davis told The Post that she “has a good heart, but she has a dark, twisted mind”.

She ended up swindling new friends and various businesses, including some of New York City’s top hotels, out of $US275,000 ($A380,000) during a 10-month spree.

A Manhattan jury convicted her on one count of attempted grand larceny, three counts of grand larceny and four counts of theft services.

She spent nearly four years in prison before being released on good behaviour on February 11, 2021.

Julia Garner as Anna Delvey in the Netflix series Inventing Anna. Picture: Aaron Epstein/Netflix

Making her return to the Big Apple, Sorokin bragged on Instagram in March: “They already told you I own this lawless f***ing city.”

The account also featured photos of her drinking champagne from a claw-foot tub and living it up.

“Anna was only out for a few weeks before ICE scooped her up. She was very sarcastic on Instagram … I think they were watching her,” Ms Davis told The Post last month.

“They told her that her visa had expired, but instead of being deported, Anna – being Anna – said, ‘I’m going to fight this.’ She thought it would be a quick fight. I think if she was a plain Jane and not in the media, she would have just been deported.”

Ms Davis feels Sorokin has been punished enough.

“She got out on good behaviour and she used the money Netflix gave her to pay everybody back. She owes no money,” Ms Davis said.

“She’s paid for her crimes, she didn’t kill anyone. She did wrong, but, at the end of the day, there are people who have done worse.”

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission