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Fake heiress found guilty over NY scam. Anna Sorokin was jailed in 2019 after spending years living as a wealthy socialite in New York.
A woman who pretended to be a wealthy heiress to swindle high society New York is convicted of multiple charges.
Between 2013 and 2017, Sorokin defrauded and deceived major financial institutions, banks, hotels, and individuals. In 2017, the NYPD arrested Sorokin in a sting operation with the help of her former friend, Rachel DeLoache Williams, who accused Sorokin of defrauding her of $62,000.
It was an elaborate, truth-is-stranger-than-fiction scam that went on for years under the radar, but when word finally got out that a young woman had been conning people in New York by...
Anna Sorokin — the woman who posed for nearly a year as a Manhattan socialite named Anna Delvey and managed to con trendsetters, businesses, and even banks — was found guilty Thursday on multiple fraud charges in a New York court.
May 9, 2019 · NEW YORK (Reuters) - A German woman who posed as a wealthy heiress to scam New York hotels, fashionable friends and banks with a blizzard of forged documents was sentenced to four to 12...
Feb 8, 2022 · Anna’s “family adviser,” the late Peter W. Hennecke, seems to have been a fictional character; his cell-phone number belonged to a now-defunct burner phone from a supermarket, New York found. (A living Peter Hennecke did not return calls for comment.)
