Anna Delvey

Anna Delvey, born Anna Sorokin, is facing 15 years behind bars after she left a trail of destruction after playing the part of a mysterious German heiress with dreams of opening an extravagant club in the middle of New York. She managed to dupe some of the world's top influencers and scam them into funding her luxurious lifestyle. Delvey also cheated banks, wrote bad cheques to fancy hotels and restaurants and created a fake financial adviser. In reality she was a truck driver's daughter from Russia and the now 27-year-old is facing a daunting jail sentence for her crimes. she was born in Russia in 1991. She moved to Germany in 2007 with her family when she was 16. Anna eventually moved to London where she attended fashion school, then back to Berlin where she interned at a public relations firm. It was when she moved to Paris after securing an internship at Purple magazine that she changed her name to Anna Delvey. Delvey was indicted on grand larceny charges at New York Supreme Court. She was eventually arrested on a number of charges including grand larceny and theft of services, to which she initially pleaded not guilty. The last time she was in court on June 19 2018, the judge slammed the former magazine intern for not appearing to show any remorse for her crimes. Netflix acquired the rights to her story in June, with Grey's Anatomy and Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes set to write a series of Delvey's rise and fall from the glamorous world of New York's high flyers. But Delvey now faces up to 15 years behind bars after a deal put forward by her lawyer of one to three years imprisonment was rejected and then a counteroffer of three to nine years in jail was turned down by her defence team.