Now out of both prison and ICE custody, convicted grifter Anna Sorokin explains her new life on house arrest in New York City’s East Village.
As long as The Post is coming over for an interview and photo shoot, Anna “Delvey” Sorokin has a shopping list: Diet coke, garbage bags, water, paper towels. And could someone also pick up lunch?
Sorokin was spotted earlier this week taking an Uber to meet her parole officer — which she says cost her $160. So why not ride the subway? “Hmmm,” she said. “No.”It was a last minute place to go, found by her lawyer when Sorokin was given the news that she was being released from ICE custody.
Instead, she chose to remain in ICE detention for nearly a year and a half, fighting for the chance to stay in the US. Her goal is to gain a visa allowing her to live and work here, and she’s now awaiting an immigration-court decision. Although Sorokin has not seen her parents since 2017, they talk via video chat and Vadim and Svetlana are well-versed in their daughter’s notoriety. During her stint in ICE, Sorokin said, they asked her: “Oh my gosh, are you just in jail for publicity?” Always into fashion, Sorokin dropped out of the prestigious Central St. Martin’s art school in London before taking a job at a PR firm in Germany. Then it was on to Paris.
Sorokin’s goal is to gain a visa allowing her to live and work in NYC, and she’s now awaiting an immigration-court decision.Also, she insisted, “It was so gradual. Just to show you how young and delusional I was, I felt like I needed to build a building in New York that would be an art foundation. We’re going to have this awesome art project, and then we’re going to have a different artist come and change the space every couple of months.
“When I saw the headlines ‘con woman, fake heiress’, I didn’t see myself as such, at all. I never told anybody how much money I had. I never pretended to be anything,” she said. “Somebody assumed I had all this money just because I was working on this project. I feel like that’s their problem.”“I mean, not all of my ideas are illegal!” she said. “I’ve had so many offers from so many interesting people, and my art has been so successful.