Saturday, April 27, 2019

UPDATE: New York's socialite scammer found guilty as fantasy meets reality

Fraudster Anna Sorokin let Manhattan’s elite believe she was a German heiress but to one of her victims she was ‘the malignant child of the Instagram age’

New York may be a city of dreams, but when they are shattered – as fake heiress Anna Sorokin found out in a Manhattan courtroom late on Thursday – they can do so spectacularly.

Sorokin, a would-be art collector with plans to open a members-only arts club, carried out a lengthy and elaborate fraud on New York’s glitziest social strata under the name of Anna Delvey.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2vohAUr

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