Former friend of fake heiress Anna Sorokin says she has wondered how she missed all the red flags from the convicted con-woman, who she now calls a 'sociopath.'
A former friend of fake heiress Anna Sorokin says she has wondered how she missed all the red flags from the convicted con-woman, who she now calls a"sociopath."
Sorokin's inconceivable life as the so-called"Soho scammer" began when she moved to New York City in 2014 and assumed the name Anna Delvey. She claimed to be a German heiress with a $67 million trust fund, and eventually used that fake identity to talk herself into exclusive New York parties and nightclubs, prosecutors said. It was in one of those clubs that she met Williams, then a 28-year-old photo editor at Vanity Fair magazine.
"I leave before Anna does," she said."When I land...I get a text message that the whole villa's being charged to my cards.""She owed me more money than I made in a year," she added. Williams soon learned the painful truth: her"friend" was no heiress, but rather, a con artist. The Russian-born daughter to middle-class parents who prosecutors said faked financial records wrote bad checks and scammed her way through New York City's high society even showed up for her court date in designer clothes.
Sorokin was convicted in May on eight counts including grand larceny, but she was found not guilty of defrauding Williams. She was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $200,000 in restitution. Her attorney still insists she meant no real harm.
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