New York: a guilty verdict for impostor Anna Sorokin

made you lived in luxury hotels, luxury vacations - without possessing the necessary money for it. The stole Anna Sorokin in New York High Society. It was spoken by a U.S. court to guilty.

Kai Clement, ARD Studio New York

Also on the last Day of the trial, the cameras click. It is an almost incredible story, which awakens attention: A story of sudden rise and jähem case of a young woman who has, of all things, led the world to the city of New York around by the nose.

Nobel hotels, and luxury vacations

you would like to have been Anna Delvey. A rich heiress in expensive clothes, who lives in Manhattan's luxury hotels for $ 400 a night, the 100-Dollar tips, and your holiday in a private Villa with Butler in Morocco spends. The super-rich father, a Diplomat, oil Baron - is an invention. Just like the Name: Anna Delvey.

Anna who? Ask a lawyer and process observer Sarah Azari in a television interview: "There is no Anna Delvey. There is not the rich heiress from Germany. There is no Foundation. Her father is a truck driver."

Sorokin fooled the New York's High Society - so successful that she was able to lead a dissolute life of luxury without the money.

< p > "a thief and a liar"

Instead, there is a young woman by the name of Anna Sorokin, 28 years old, is a native of Russia, at the age of 16 with her parents to Germany, and initially in the vicinity of Cologne lives. When she moves to New York, she changes into a different life. However, even at the expense of others - an impostor. A "thief and a liar", did a "elongated mask game," said Prosecutor Cyrus Vance called the woman. The Prosecutor said that Sorokin had made it easier for banks, Hotels, and friends over a period of ten months, the equivalent of almost a quarter of a million Euro.

"A little bit of Anna is in each of us"

her lawyer, Todd Spodek, held during the process: "Anna wanted to be a spectator, but a fellow player. She has not waited for chances, but they created themselves. We all know, a little bit of Anna is in each of us."

He has always rejected, that the young woman had a criminal intent. She had always been of the Conviction that the money to pay back. The people would have given it to her also, of course, voluntary. Feign - up at some point, perhaps, but the big breakthrough comes.

your history is soon to be filmed, possibly with Jennifer Lawrence in the main role.

several times guilty of

But the breakthrough is not coming. Instead, the police and the remand on New York's notorious island prison Rikers Island and now the decision of the New York jury. They spoke with the defendant on almost all charges guilty, including three cases of theft, four cases of severe leichens of services, as well as in a case of attempted Grand larceny.

Two particularly serious allegations, however, the Jury is not convinced. The lawyer argued: Anna have only benefited from a System that people with money prefer. Or those that seemed to have money.

a film adaptation planned

After the guilty verdict is a defender Spodek now that the sentence will be between five and 15 years. It should be on 9. May be announced. You could be deported in addition to Germany. The US authorities say, Sorokin've covered your visa.

An incredible story. So incredible that Netflix has already announced a film adaptation.

impostor instead of a rich heiress - New York juror's talk German-Russian guilty
Kai, Clement, ARD New York
26.04.2019 08:18 PM

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