Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin has been granted release from prison but will be banned from all forms of social media, an immigration judge said Wednesday. (Read More Here).
The 31-year-old con artist, and the subject of the Netflix show “Inventing Anna,” has won release from the Orange County prison where she has spent the last 17 months in ICE custody as she fights her deportation.
She is expected to be released tomorrow once she has found a place to stay, her representative told Page Six.
Sorokin, who for years duped New York socialites by pretending she was a wealthy heiress named Anna Delvey, must remain under 24-hour house arrest with electronic monitoring in addition to posting $10,000 bail, according to the judge’s order.
Sorokin served four years in prison after her 2019 conviction on a number of state charges related to her years-long scamming spree, during which she bilked New York’s elite and skipped out on bills at luxury hotels and restaurants.
Six after she was released from prison for good behavior in 2021, she was rearrested by ICE agents and had been detained in an Orange County facility ever since.
The government argued that Sorokin should remain locked up as she posed a threat to the community.
Her lawyer, Duncan Levin, said in a statement that he was “extremely grateful by the court’s decision to release Sorokin.
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