Where Is Anna Delvey Now? ‘Inventing Anna’ Subject Update

Anna Delvey made headlines in 2018 after she was arrested for posing as a German heiress and swindling banks, hotels and many individuals out of $200,000+. And in the Shonda Rhimes-produced series "Inventing Anna," which premiered on Netflix Feb. 11, viewers get the opportunity to watch the con artist's story.

As we watched the series, we couldn't help but wonder: Where is Anna Delvey, who turned 31 in January, now?

So we did some digging to catch you up on her complex story.

Anna Sorokin was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison

The con artist, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, was arrested in 2018 and found guilty in May 2019. A Manhattan jury convicted her on one count of attempted grand larceny, three counts of grand larceny and four counts of theft services.

The Russian-born Sorokin was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison and was later released on parole in February 2021.

Anna Sorokin spent time in an ICE detention center in upstate New York

Six weeks after Sorokin was released from the Albion Correctional Facility on parole in February 2021, she found herself in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for overstaying her visa, according to The Cut.

In an Insider essay published in early February, Sorokin told her own story.

"My visa overstay was unintentional and largely out of my control," she wrote, adding that she is "appealing her criminal conviction to clear (her) name." She continued, "I did not break a single one of New York state’s or ICE’s parole rules. Despite all that, I’ve yet to be given a clear and fair path to compliance."

On Jan. 19, Sorokin tested positive for COVID-19 and was placed in quarantine isolation in the Orange Country Correctional Facility. “I’m sure I’ll live, but I haven’t been this sick in years,” she wrote in the essay.

In March, Sorokin sued ICE as part of a class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU. Sorokin said ICE denied her multiple requests for a COVID-19 booster shot.

At first, she said she wouldn't watching the Netflix show about her story

In her "Insider" essay, Delvey wrote that she wouldn't be watching "Inventing Anna."

"Even if I were to pull some strings and make it happen, nothing about seeing a fictionalized version of myself in this criminal-insane-asylum setting sounds appealing to me," she wrote.

In her essay, Sorokin revealed that she had multiple phone conversations and visits with the show's staff while they were developing the series, which is told "from a journalist's perspective."

Even though she was consulted for the project and was reportedly paid $320,000 by Netflix for her life rights to the series, per Insider, Sorokin doesn't exactly seem to be psyched about the series premiere.

"And while I’m curious to see how they interpreted all the research and materials provided, I can’t help but feel like an afterthought, the somber irony of being confined to a cell at yet another horrid correctional facility lost between the lines, the history repeating itself," she wrote.

Eventually, she saw the show — and had thoughts

During an interview with "Cosmopolitan," Sorokin was able to see "Inventing Anna" over video chat. Reporter Emily Palmer captured Sorokin's live reactions. “I think I’m more self-aware of the way I come across, not all of the time, but I just don’t think that I’m so brazen and shameless,” Sorokin told Palmer.

Anna Sorokin was in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

On Feb. 17, the Justice Department issued a deportation order for Sorokin. Her lawyer, after saying they believed she had been deported to Germany on March 14 — where her family has lived since Sorokin was 15 — said on March 15 that she is still in the U.S. and in ICE custody in Southern California.

Speaking to the New York Times, Sorokin said that her time in prison has changed her. "Having been to prison and having been through the criminal justice system, it just exposed me to a whole different kind of a person, and my problems before just seem ridiculous," Sorokin said.

And was released from federal jail in October 2022

Sorokin was released from federal jail on Oct. 7, 2022, on a $10,000 bail bond.

Sorokin will remain under house arrest, with electronic monitoring, at her New York apartment. According to her immigration attorney, John Sangweg, she will continue to face deportation proceedings and her release will be closely monitored by ICE and the state of New York.

Speaking to New York Magazine in November 2022, Sorokin shared the fashion challenges that come with an ankle bracelet.

“I was trying to get those Givenchy over-the-knee boots,” she says, pulling out her phone to show me a photo. “That was a no-go because of this bracelet. I guess no over-the-knee boots for me.”

She's reentering the art world

Speaking to NBC's Savannah Sellers, Sorokin spoke about her plans.

“Hopefully, I’ll be given a chance to like focus all my energy into something legal,” Sorokin explained to Sellers. “I’d love to be given an opportunity for people not to just dismiss me as like a quote-unquote scammer and just see what I’m going to do next.”

Sorokin is making new forays into the art world. She participated in a pop-up art show called “Free Anna Delvey" and is unrolling a line of NFTs called "Reinventing Anna" that give fans one-on-one time with her.

She said she's been approached by reality TV shows

Speaking to New York Magazine, Sorokin said that she was approached about reality TV but said she "doesn't see a future" in it.

“I’m being very cautious with everything I’m putting my name on,” she said. “There are so many people who are living with this caricature version of me, and they are like ‘Oh, Anna, say this’ or whatever Netflix was trying to achieve, which — I don’t blame them, but I’m trying to move away from that. I am wiser about the people I surround myself with this time.”

This article was originally published on TODAY.com