Introduction
Anna Delvey was one of the pseudonyms mostly used by German women to represent Sorokin. She moved to New York City in the year 2013; she used this name mainly to pretend that she was among the wealthier heiress in German to establish herself. Thus when she reached Paris, she started to use Delvey (De Coster, pp 165-167). In 2013 and 2017, she pretended to be wealthier and moved to Germany to fraud people such as hotels, banks, and wealthier acquaintances.
Early life
- Family life
She was born in Demodedovo, Russia. This City consists of a working-class and is found in the southwest of Moscow. “Her mother worked as the store owner while the father was a truck driver (De Coster, pp 165-167). During her education life, her classmates described her as an “excellent student” and a “stronger character,” which she could offend these kinds of descriptions in most cases”.
- Education life
In 2007 they opted to Germany, and when she approached 16 years, she began to attend the gym and was described by his peers as “a quiet girl” because she had difficulty speaking the German language (De Coster, pp 165-167).
Life of crime section
In 2013, “she traveled to New York City to attend one of the New York Fashion Week. She found people of New York friendlier than in Paris, where she opted to stay in New York City. This made her quit Purple, located in Paris, and she came up with Anna Delvey Foundation, an art foundation and a private club” (De Coster, pp 165-167). She proposed this to among the richest people like Aby Rosen and Roo Rogers, and she proposed to lease Church Mission House.
In 2015 Anna was at Pennsylvania University. When at the dinner party, “she met with Michael Xufu, and when she heard that Michael was planning to attend Venice Biennale, she asked Michael if she could accompany him. Michael agreed and booked both the flight and hotel for Anna based on the agreement that she would reimburse the money when they were back”. However, Anna did not return the money when they returned, and Michael thought she was absent-minded (De Coster, p 165). Also, when Michael attended Anna’s birthday party at Sedelle’s, the restaurant contacted Michael if he had the contact details. Anna since booked the hotel with a fake credit card and used fake details. This made Michael recognize Anna as a cone artist and eventually pressurized Sorokin to pay her money from Venmo bearing an unfamiliar name.
After making the foundation known, “she created fake bank statements and claimed that the money was in a Swiss bank account amounting to €60 million. In 2016 she applied for a loan of €22 million to City National Bank”. The City National Bank refused to provide the loan until Ann provided attesting financial assets in Swiss. She then moved to Fortress Investment Group, which considered her loan and asked for $100,000to cover all the expenses she did not have (De Coster, pp 165-167). She returned to the City National Bank ask the employee for an overdraft temporarily that she would pay it back. The manager sensed something when the Anna credentials were not matching.
Aftermath section
In 2017 she was convicted of grand theft. “She was mainly charged to the fraudulent in the City National Bank and Fortress Investment Group. On October 3, 2017, she was arrested in a planned operation by Michael McCaffrey” (De Coster, p 165). On October 23, the attorney general announced if any has problems with Sorokin, they should avail themselves. She was charged with eight crimes and was later released in February 2021.
Conclusion
Anna Delvey was one of the women who coned people. She changed her name and put herself as a celebrity to ensure that she is still from people to make herself rich and live a better life. This behavior made her be arrested and jailed from 2018 and later released in 2021.
Works cited
De Coster, Elizabeth. “Scams and Flimflam.” Reference & User Services Quarterly (2021): 165.
De Coster, Elizabeth. “The Alert Collector: Scams and Flimflam: The Other True Crime.” Reference & User Services Quarterly 59.3/4 (2021): 165-167.
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