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Anna Sorokin

アンナ・ソローキン　/　あんな・そろーきん

Impostor from Russia

January 23, 1991 (age 35)　・　Domodedovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia

Moscow Oblast
impostor
con artist

My Take

Sorokin fascinates me less as a criminal than as a diagnosis. Posing as a German heiress, she walked through New York's gilded doors not by forging documents alone but by performing confidence so flawlessly that an entire elite class declined to check. That, to me, is the real story: a young Russian-born woman from outside Moscow exposed how thoroughly status is taken on faith. I don't admire the fraud, and the harm to real people was real. But I find her a strangely honest mirror of a credulous era, and I suspect she understood our vanity better than we'd like to admit.

Overview

Anna Sorokin (Russian: Анна Сорокина, romanized: Anna Sorokina, pronounced [ˈanːə sɐˈrokʲɪnɐ]; born January 23, 1991), also known as Anna Delvey, is a con artist and fraudster who posed as a wealthy heiress to access upper-class New York social and art scenes from 2013 to 2017. Born near Moscow, Delvey emigrated from Russia to Germany with her family at the age of 16 in 2007.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Anna Sorokin
Name (Japanese): アンナ・ソローキン
Reading: あんな・そろーきん
Born: January 23, 1991 (age 35)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aquarius / Goat
Origin: Domodedovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: impostor / con artist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

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6. Links

Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/theannadelvey/
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Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Delvey

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