Her story was fictionalised in the Netflix show 'Inventing Anna'.
Image:A Russian-German woman convicted of fraud after she swindled businesses and friends while posing as a wealthy heiress is facing deportation from the US, according to reports.
Anna Sorokin, 31, was better known to her Manhattan friends as Anna Delvey, a would-be socialite decked out in expensive clothes whose credit cards came back declined with unnerving frequency despite her talk of having a trust fund. Prosecutors say Sorokin stole $275,000 from others while pretending she had a fortune of $67m through multiple acts of glamorous grifting in 2016 and 2017.Sorokin's story was fictionalised in the Netflix show
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