Convicted in the US Russian woman posing as a millionaire, receives thousands of dollars from Netflix

Anna Sorokina, who posed as a millionaire heiress in New York, receives tens of thousands of dollars from Netflix every month for filming her story. Now she can lose this money by a court decision.

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The State Attorney General’s Office urges the court to apply the Son of Sam’s law to the case of Anna Sorokina, according to which convicted criminals should not receive profits from their crimes New York Post. Prosecutors convince the judge that it is necessary to send large sums of money from the furious and expected drama of Shonda Rhime to the victims of Sorokina as compensation.

“The money she sought to keep here represented the proceeds of crime,” Assistant Attorney General Adele Duran wrote in newly filed court papers.

Sorokina called himself Anna Delvi and pretended to be a German heiress with a fortune of 67 million dollars. She cheated on banks and hotels for hundreds of thousands.

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In May, Sorokina was convicted during an impressive trial, during which the judge criticized her for being more concerned about her appearance than the charges against her, and sentenced her to 4-12 years in prison.

Sorokina signed a contract with Netflix long before her trial began in June 2018, serving a preliminary conclusion.

According to the newspapers, the first payment on the deal, 30 000 dollars, was sent directly to her lawyer Todd Spodek to cover part of his legal costs.

The Attorney General’s office does not dispute this payment. But prosecutors want the judge to block all subsequent payments in accordance with state law, which does not allow criminals to profit from their crimes.

The law was named after the serial killer David Berkowitz, who hit the headlines of all American newspapers after a shocking series of crimes in New York at the end of the 1970s. The law was passed and signed within a few weeks in 1977, the year of the killer’s arrest.

8 Jun Sorokina was supposed to get extra 70 000 dollars for a deal with Netflix, but this payment was suspended.

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In addition to the contract amount, Netflix pledged to pay her 7500 dollars in addition to the previously agreed 15 000 dollars for the consultation for each episode.

Following Sorokin's conviction, Judge Diane Kiesel signed a restitution order totaling $198. Anna owes $956,19 to City National Bank, which she defrauded with fake bank statements—a sum Sorokin obtained while trying to negotiate a $100 million loan to open a private art club in Manhattan.

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The bank's lawyer, Peter Hebert, expressed his intention to "immediately file a claim for damages." The judge is waiting for a response from Sorokina's lawyers.

Her widely publicized trial was covered, among other places, in Germany and Russia. Sorokina hired a celebrity stylist to select courtroom outfits, including designs by Yves Saint Laurent, Victoria Beckman and Miu Miu.

At the same time, the transfer of Sorokina's designer clothes to the prison on Rikers Island did not always go smoothly, which is why Anna, dissatisfied with her wardrobe, threw hysterics - which delayed the process even more. On at least three occasions, jurors had to wait several hours for Sorokin in the courtroom because of her choice of clothing.

The jury found Sorokin not guilty of promising her former friend and ex-Vanity Fair editor Rachel Williams an all-expenses-paid trip to Morocco and then billing her $70.

Williams sold her story of friendship and ill-fated trip to HBO and Simon & Schuster for $ 600.

Meanwhile, a team of authors is developing a script for the Netflix show, for which Anna can never get fabulous fees.

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As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• 9 May 2019 Year Manhattan Court sentenced Anna Sorokina to 12 years of imprisonment with the right to review the sentence through 4.
• At the end of April she was nconvicted of fraud in hotels, restaurants, banks, and a private airline company for more than 200 000 dollars. Judge Diane Kiesel stated that "she was stunned by the depth of the deception of the accused, and the labyrinths of lies."
• She arrived in New York in 2016 year and smoothly fit into a glamorous party, where she successfully pretended to be the daughter of a German oil magnate, diplomat or just a rich man (in fact, her father initially worked in Germany as a truck driver, and then started a small service company heating and cooling equipment). Here is photos from instagram Annawhere it is clearly seen what a luxurious life she led.
• Married American banker sent Sorokina 158 sms romantic character. He entered into correspondence with Anna after she tried to get a loan of 22 million dollars with his help.
• The full story of Anna with all her machinations read in our material. Her attorney Todd Spodek admitted that his client’s actions were unethical, but, according to him, were not illegal because she planned to pay all debts.

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