Anna “Delvey” Sorokin: “60 million, that borders on poverty in New York”

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Fake heiress Anna Sorokin: “60 million, that borders on poverty in New York”

When Anna Sorokin talks about Germany, it sounds like a wasteland where the sidewalks are rolled up after work. In her twenties, the Russian-born just wanted to get away from Eschweiler, where her family moved when she was a teenager. Via Berlin she went to Paris and finally to New York, where she – almost every Netflix subscriber knows the story – cheated friends and financial institutions out of several thousand dollars.

Anna Sorokin: New York was her place of longing

A week before successfully resisting deportation to Germany, Sorokin gave an interview to the podcast “Call Her Daddy” from prison. There she explained why New York fascinated her. It was the energy of the metropolis and the fact that you could get anything at any time. In comparison, shops in Europe are closed from 5 or 6 p.m., according to Sorokin. Of course, if you compare New York City with Eschweiler in North Rhine-Westphalia, the differences become apparent relatively quickly. But when you hear how Sorokin describes her parents’ adopted country, it’s a little surprising that she absolutely doesn’t want to go back.

Sorokin also spoke to Alexandra Cooper about her time living in luxury New York hotels and pretending to be wealthy. She admitted that no one ever asked her what she did for a living or how her parents allegedly got so rich. The consensus among her friends and acquaintances was that she was a wealthy German heiress and would soon have a trust fund of $60 million. “60 million borders on poverty in New York. That’s almost nothing,” Sorokin explained in the podcast. She always didn’t care what people thought about her and she couldn’t judge how others judged her either. She attributes the fact that she was also able to rip off financial institutions to a special strategy.

Money means freedom

She dressed extra inconspicuously to show the institutes that she didn’t really need their help, she explained. “I went in there with a don’t give a fuck attitude because if the money isn’t coming from them, it’s going to come from someone else. They were all disposable, there are so many financial institutions in New York,” she told “Call Her Daddy.”

For Sorokin, money equals freedom. Even as a child, the most important thing to her was being able to make her own decisions. “I was allergic to authority. I was used to being given freedoms and when those were taken away, I didn’t respond well,” she said of growing up when her mother tried to impose rules on her. Today the relationship with her parents is intact, albeit sporadically. There are phone calls twice a week, she explained, and occasionally her parents would even send her magazines to prison.

As far as her motto in life is concerned, Sorokin has apparently followed the British Royal Family. “Never complain, never explain,” she said at the end of the interview. Don’t complain and don’t explain anything. On the second point, she should be right. Sorokin does not provide any real explanations now that the world knows more about her criminal activities. Should she still be deported, the world would be open to her. “I can go anywhere in the world. I wouldn’t have to stay in Germany,” said Sorokin. One thing is for sure: Nothing is drawing her to Eschweiler.

source: “Call Her Daddy”

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