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“She tasted blood in Berlin”: Anna Sorokin’s ex-boss talks about her time with the fake heiress
Fake heiress Anna Sorokin in an interview with RTL
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Before Anna Sorokin cheated banks in New York, she did her first internships in Berlin and Paris. In a new documentary, her former boss from Germany talks about the fake heiress.
Not only fans of the Netflix series “Inventing Anna” are puzzled about how Anna Sorokin as “Anna Delvey” was able to fool friends and banks for years. Companions of the Russian are also probably racking their brains about the point in her life where Sorokin took a wrong turn.
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The new RTL documentary “Anna Sorokin – The true story of the millionaire swindler” not only illuminates Sorokin’s time in New York, but also her professional beginnings in Berlin. In addition to her father, Janina Fisher, who looked after Sorokin during her internship at a Berlin PR company, also has a say.
Sorokin moved to Berlin from her parents’ adopted home in Germany, Eschweiler in North Rhine-Westphalia. For the fashion-interested young woman there wasn’t much to get in the small town, the capital promised more. According to Fischer, Sorokin lived in Berlin as a sublet. “She was at the agency for a total of nine months,” she recalls. During the interview, the 31-year-old seemed shy and sometimes spoke so quietly that you could hardly understand her. “I remember being impressed with the knowledge she already had about fashion,” Sorokin’s former boss tells the documentary.
Sorokin stayed in the background
“An internship is paid at best with a very, very low salary, so she had to be supported by family. She never gave the impression that she had a lot of money on her hands,” Fisher also says. “She was just a bit average at first glance,” she explains of Sorokin’s attire and demeanor. The passion – and the necessary money – for designer pieces only came with Sorokin’s later stay in Paris. During her internship, Sorokin was very diligent and never shied away from working overtime. She was rewarded with first experiences in the fashion business: parties, events, fashion shows. “She took it all in and soaked it all in,” says Fisher. “That’s why I think the time in Berlin was so formative. I think she tasted blood there,” she explains. But in the long run, Berlin Sorokin wasn’t enough.
She moved on to the fashion capital of Europe, Paris. There she did an internship at the fashion magazine “Purple”. A companion from this period also has his say: Sergio Corvacho. The make-up artist became friends with the intern after a “Purple” fashion show. He had no idea at the time that she would also cheat on him financially at some point. But for Sorokin, Paris was just a way station on the way to her real destination: New York City. Your great fascination with the USA also becomes clear in an interview with RTL. Because although Sorokin grew up in Germany from the age of 16 and went to school there, she speaks German with a clearly audible American accent. Surprising, after all her English isn’t perfect either, the strange accent already caused a stir in the Netflix adaptation of her life story, “Inventing Anna”.
In New York, she posed as a wealthy German heiress, Anna Delvey, who would have a multi-million dollar trust fund by her mid-twenties. After years of cheating, it was revealed that her story was a fake from start to finish.
“Anna Sorokin – The True Story of the Million Swindler” will be available on RTL+ from April 14, 2022.
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