Anna Delvey’s parents disowned her after she was found guilty of grand larceny for theft after she claimed to be a German heiress. Details about her mother, father and siblings explored.
Netflix’s true-crime series Inventing Anna captivated audiences when it premiered in 2022.
The limited series starring Julia Garner tells the wild true story of fraudster Anna Sorokin, who posed as a wealthy German heiress named Anna Delvey while living in N.Y.C.
In addition to scamming countless wealthy socialites, Sorokin also swindled several prominent banks and hotels during her time in the Big Apple.
Since Sorokin’s sentencing in 2019, there have been several adaptations of the infamous story — including a book written by her former friend Rachel Williams titled My Friend Anna and a yet-to-be-released series from HBO — but the upcoming Netflix show is based on the New York article “How Anna (Sorokin) Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People” by Jessica Pressler.
Later after she was found guilty, a new report about her parents hit the internet. In it, the fake heiress Anna Sorokin’s parents disowned her and say she borrowed from them too.
Learn more about Anna Delvey‘s parents and what her family has said.
Who are Anna Delvey’s parents?
Anna Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, was born on Jan. 23, 1991, in Domodedovo, a town outside of Moscow, Russia, but predominantly grew up in Germany.
At the moment, only her father’s name has been revealed as Vadim Sorokin whereas her mother’s name has not yet been made public.
Contrary to how she fooled her victims to be the daughter of a wealthy German family, her parents do normal jobs, which didn’t fit her persona before she was caught with fake identity.
Her dad, Vadim, has an HVAC business, a heating and cooling business, he manages. Prior to that, he was a truck driver who became an executive at a transport company until the company became insolvent in 2013.
As for her Sorokin’s mother, she was a housewife and owned a small convenience store.
As a young adult, Sorokin obsessively followed Vogue, fashion blogs, and image accounts on LiveJournal and Flickr.
As a way to work towards her dream as a fashion icon, Sorokin left Germany to pursue a fashion degree in Paris aged 19, and eventually took on the name Anna Delvey, which she claimed was based on her mother’s maiden name. Sorokin’s parents, however, said they “do not recognize the surname”. Sorokin later admitted she “just came up with it.”
In summer 2013, she attended Fashion Week in New York on behalf of Purple magazine, where she was working at the time, and eventually opted to stay in the city.
Prior to her fashion education, Sorokin attended the Bischöfliche Liebfrauenschule Eschweiler (Episcopal School of Our Lady of Eschweiler), a Catholic grammar school in Eschweiler. Peers said she was quiet and struggled with the German language.
Following her conviction, Sorokin is not in contact with her parents and they did not attend her trial. Her father has previously stated that he has disowned her, telling DailyMailTV in April 2019, “‘I do not have any influence on her life and what she does. It is down to her what she has done.”
Does Anna Sorokin have any siblings?
The high-society scammer and convicted felon is not an only child to her parents. She has a brother whose name is also not made public yet.
She and her brother were raised in a middle-class family, in opposition to how she made people believe she’s from a wealthy family.
Her brother has stayed out of the spotlight and lives a private life.
What have Anna Delvey’s parents said about her?
Vadim Sorokin has openly stated in interviews that he has disowned his daughter after she was found guilty of grand larceny and other charges in 2019.
Anna Sorokin was known as Anna Delvey and claimed to be a German heiress, stealing thousands of dollars from Manhattan socialites, banks, and hotels.
Sorokin was arrested again six weeks after she was released from jail on Riker’s Island in February 2021 for an expired visa.
Her father told The Daily Mail that he knew little about his daughter’s time in New York City and was one of many whom his daughter had taken money from.
He said he didn’t understand how Sorokin had gotten her life to this point as he and his wife had “raised her well.”
“I do not have any influence on her life and what she does,” he told the news outlet in 2019. “It is down to her what she has done.”
In an interview with Komsomolskaya Prava in 2019, Vadim Sorokin said, “Our daughter has never sent us any money. On the contrary, she was borrowing.
“Of course, we are very concerned about her but she has a selfish personality, we can’t do anything about it. We raised her well.”
What crimes did Anna Delvey commit?
While in N.Y.C., Sorokin paraded as a wealthy German heiress to infiltrate herself into the inner circle of the city’s biggest socialites. During her time in the city, she scammed countless people, hotels, and banks, often using invalid credit cards or fake bank statements to create the illusion of wealth. She even created the idea of the Anna Delvey Foundation, a private club and art foundation, to entice wealthy donors and further her brand.
After bouncing from hotel to hotel and repeatedly not paying her bills, Sorokin was evicted from several hotels. In October 2017, Sorokin was arrested during a sting operation. At the time, she was staying at an addiction treatment facility in Los Angeles County, California. During her prosecution, it was estimated that she stole around $275,000.
On April 25, 2019, Sorokin was found guilty of eight charges, including attempted grand larceny in the first degree, grand larceny in the second degree, grand larceny in the third degree, and theft of services. That May, she was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in state prison, fined $24,000, and ordered to pay restitution of about $199,000.
Where is Anna Delvey now?
After her trial, Sorokin was sent to Bedford Hills Correctional Facility before being transferred to Albion Correctional Facility in New York. In February 2021, she was released early from prison and immediately returned to Instagram.
However, that March, she was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for overstaying her visa.
On Oct. 5, 2022, Sorokin was granted release from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Orange County, New York, Bloomberg reported.
As part of her release, per Bloomberg, she had to pay a $10,000 bail and is banned from social media, where she often shared posts that showed off her seemingly lavish lifestyle for her friends and potential investors.
She currently resides in the East Village in N.Y.C., where she is under house arrest.