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Anna Sorokin – who scammed New York City’s elite by reportedly convincing them that she was a German heiress by the name of Anna Delvey in 2017 – gave an interview to Alex Cooper on the Call Her Daddy podcast this week. During the appearance, the alleged heiress revealed that she received offers of adoption and marriage.
“Capable of weaving skillful lies with extraordinary aplomb, the young woman posed as a German heiress with a fortune of $60 million, allowing her to obtain tens of thousands of dollars in loans from several banks,” CBS News reported. “Between November 2016 and August 2017, she traveled for free by private jet and lived on credit in Manhattan hotels, without ever paying a cent, according to New York prosecutors, who estimated her frauds totaled to around $275,000.”
Sorokin conducted the Call Her Daddy interview on March 7 while she was in ICE custody as she faces deportation to Germany.
“In November 2021, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) granted Sorokin’s emergency stay request; she remains in ICE custody pending removal,” an ICE spokesperson told Fox News.
Sorokin was released on parole in February 2021, but was detained a month later by ICE for overstaying her visa.
In the interview, Sorokin revealed that she had a “jail assistant” who did her laundry at Rikers Island prison.
“If you have money, you don’t really have to do anything,” Sorokin told Cooper. “They actually think I’m, like, super rich.”
Anna Sorokin, 31, said she has been “buying tablets” and “phone minutes” from fellow prison mates in jail. Other inmates told Sorokin that she “wasn’t that good of a criminal.”
Since being arrested, she said, “I have people wanting to adopt me. I don’t have, like, any haters!”
Sorokin also said she had received “more marriage proposals than I ever did before my criminal career started.”
“I was just allergic to authority, to rules, especially when I thought they were unreasonable,” she said of her parents. “I hated to explain myself.”
She believes, “To have the freedom that comes with [money]. I just wanted to do what I wanted. Travel, go places, and do things. If you ask parents for money, then you need their permission, but if you have your own — you just go and do whatever you want. Money just always represented freedom for me, not just for the sake of the money.”
When visiting banks to get loans, Sorokin said she dressed in clothes that give an “I don’t give a f—” vibe.
Anna Sorokin – who was dressed in a yellow prison jumpsuit and her signature Celine glasses – refuted claims that she bragged about being a German heiress.
“No, like, no one introduces yourself like that,” Sorokin said of the accusations. “Like, what kind of sentence is that? It’s completely ridiculous. I cannot testify to what people are assuming about me. I don’t know.”
“I literally cannot come up with a single example where I’m like yeah let me f— this person over and they’ll never see their money ever again,” Sorokin said from the Orange County Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
However, when asked if she ever lied about her “family’s background or wealth,” Sorokin later admitted, “I guess I did.”
“I mean, I cannot tell an exact instance, but I’m sure,” Sorokin acknowledged. “But all of that — I never, like, told any senseless lies. Unless they were, like, a bank.”
When asked if she sees herself as a con artist, Sorokin responded, “Absolutely not.” “I never intended criminally to harm anybody, you know,” she stressed.
“I mean, people just say so many things about me, I don’t care,” Sorokin told Cooper.
Cooper asked Sorokin if her accent is legitimate.
“It’s just the way I speak, I don’t know. I never put on any accent, it’s just the way I talk,” Sorokin replied. “Did anybody ever hear me speak any different? Then they should come up with the evidence, whoever accused me of that. I want to see the proof, so, let’s talk.”
“When I heard Julia talking like me the first time, I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, do I sound this insufferable?’ It’s just so weird, like, hearing yourself, it’s like the same when you just hear your voice being recorded. It’s totally different from the way you hear yourself when you speak,” Sorokin said.
Netflix’s Inventing Anna series starring Julia Garner as Anna “Delvey” Sorokin is based on the life of the fake heiress who scammed hundreds of thousands of dollars from hotels, banks, and other businesses. In April 2019, Sorokin was convicted of four counts of theft of services, three counts of grand larceny, and one count of attempted grand larceny.