Anna Sorokin aka Anna Delvey.Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/getty
In an exclusive interview withNBC’s News' Savannah Sellers, the con artist who wasconvicted of eight felony chargesin 2019 — for posing as a German heiress and scamming $200,000 from New York City socialites – now admits what she did was wrong.
“Yeah, that was definitely unethical,” Sorokin, 31, says about the banks she tried to defraud. “I would not encourage anybody else to follow my footsteps.”
Sorokin, who inspired theNetflix miniseriesInventing Anna, for attempting to swindle millions from her friends and banks to support her lavish lifestyle, says while she remains in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in an upstate New York jail cell for overstaying her visa, she is turning her attention to business ventures, including an NFT project.
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“Hopefully, I’ll be given a chance to focus all my energy into something legal. And I like to believe I’m good at getting things done,” she says. “I’d love to be given an opportunity … for people not to just dismiss me as like a quote unquote scammer, and just see what I’m going to do next.”
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Sorokin claimed that overstaying her visa was “unintentional” and “largely out of my control,” and asserted that she followed all of New York state’s and ICE’s parole rules,PEOPLE previously reported.
As for the guilty verdict on grand larceny charges, Sorokin tells NBC News she never meant to do any harm.
“I never was trying to do any harm to anybody. And I’m not just like this vicious like scamming person trying to like take advantage of anybody who’s just like stupid enough to fall for it.”
She adds, “I was never acting with a malicious intent. It did not work out that way. And unfortunately, I resorted to like these unorthodox methods, and I would obviously not encourage anybody to do that.”
The exclusive interview will also air on TODAY, NBC Nightly News, NBC Stay Tuned and across NBC News NOW.
source: people.com
