Hear What Anna Delvey Says Was "Impossible" About Jail

Life is for living, you know, so Anna Delvey (a.k.a Anna Sorokin) is going to unrecorded it.

On Oct. 11, the 31-year-old, whose fake heiress persona and ineligible troubles became the taxable of Netflix's Inventing Anna, stepped retired successful New York City flat for a tribunal appointment.

In true socialite fashion, Anna was dressed to impressment successful a stylish achromatic trench coat, matching trousers and strappy heels. She completed her look with oversized sunglasses and a scarf—interestingly monogramed with the initials of her infamous alias—wrapped astir her head.

Anna's outing comes conscionable days after her release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, wherever she spent much than a twelvemonth down bars for overstaying her visa. In a connection to E! News, her attorney John Sandweg confirmed that a justice "recognized that migration detention was nary longer indispensable for Anna," though the ruling "does not mean that Anna volition get a escaped pass" arsenic she'll beryllium nether location arrest.

In 2017, Anna was arrested and charged with defrauding oregon intentionally deceiving large fiscal institutions, banks, hotels and acquaintances into financing her extravagant lifestyle by pretending she was the girl of a German lipid tycoon. Two years later, she convicted of attempted expansive larceny, larceny successful the 2nd grade and theft of services, though acquitted on 2 further charges. 

She was sentenced to four to 12 years successful prison, which included clip spent down bars during her trial, but was released in February 2021 and past detained by migration authorities implicit visa issues.

"I decidedly person a mode antithetic position present than I did erstwhile I came retired the archetypal clip past February," Anna told NYT. "It's conscionable intolerable to person been done what I've been done without changing. I learned truthful overmuch being successful jail."

She added, "There's a precise well-documented arc astir however I've felt astir everything. It wouldn't beryllium close if I were conscionable to power successful 1 day. That would beryllium precise disingenuous. It's a process. I americium regretful astir the mode things played out. The mode I've tried to spot my acquisition is to larn from it: Who I americium contiguous is due to the fact that of the decisions I made successful the past."