Anna Sorokin scammed a fortune from New York’s elite. (Image: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)
The German heiress with a £50million trust fund in Swiss banks stayed at only the finest hotels, chartered private jets and filled her wardrobe to overflowing with designer clothing. Blue-eyed with long lashes and cascading chestnut hair, she dispensed $100 tips and thought nothing of sending a bottle of 1975 vintage Dom Perignon champagne to hotel staff as a small token of her gratitude.
She hosted lavish dinner parties for Manhattan’s art world glitterati at NewYork’s swankiest restaurants and hired a personal trainer to help her work off the calories afterwards.
But it was all a lie. The Teutonic tycoon was in reality Russian truck driver’s daughter Anna Sorokin, a penniless con artist who grew up near Cologne and posed as a patron of the arts to embezzle a fortune from high society friends and five star hotels across the globe.
Her escapades, which took her from boutique hotel suites to a stark cell in New York’s Albion Correctional Facility, are recounted in a new ten-part Netflix series Inventing Anna, which starts next week starring Ozark’s Julia Garner.
HBO is also developing a TV series about the shameless swindler’s exploits, written by Girls creator and star Lena Dunham.
“The thing is, I’m not sorry,” said Sorokin in 2019 after she was sentenced to a prison term of four to 12 years. “I’d be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I said I was sorry for…
