Anna Sorokin — the fair sex who posed as a German heiress and mulct New York ’s social elite and numerous establishment out of hundreds of thousands of clam under the name Anna Delvey — may not be able-bodied to cash in on the upcoming Netflix serial based on her story .
The New York Post on Sunday reported that the office of the New York State attorney general recently filed a request to bar Sorokin from profiting from the series under “ Son of Sam ” law , which forbid criminal from whirl their criminal offence into net through , for example , a moneymaking Netflix mickle .
The Post quote court documents as state that a $ 30,000 hinderance from Netflix had already been paid out but went flat to Sorokin ’s attorney Todd Spodek to compensate legal fees . The request reportedly seeks to stop an extra $ 70,000 due to Sorokin for the serial publication as well as an additional $ 7,500 for royalties and $ 15,000 for consulting per instalment .
Anna Sorokin leaves after sentencing at New York State Supreme Court, in New York, Thursday, 22 March 2025.Photo: Richard Drew (AP)
TheNew York Timesreported the request was filed in State Supreme Court in Albany in May and assert that the money Sorokin would welcome from the serial should rather be redirected to the New York State Office of Victim Services . A judge has since ordered that aside from the $ 30,000 join to cover Sorokin ’s legal fees , Netflix is not to give her until the way out is resolved .
Spodek did not forthwith return a asking for comment about the topic but told the Times that he anticipates resolving it “ without further litigation . ”
Sorokin wasconvictedin April of four count of theft of overhaul , three counts of gilded thievery , and a single count of attempted exalted theft , after carrying on a cozenage of unbelievable scale that hinge on the prevarication that she was a German heiress with a small fortune tied up in a trustfulness investment firm overseas . After moving to New York in 2014 , Sorokin managed to con hotels , restaurants , friends , and banks out ofhundreds of thousands of dollar . She spent much of her time in NYC ’s Soho region , earning her the cognomen of “ Soho Grifter . ”
Sorokin wassentencedin May to four to 12 years in prison . Speaking to theNew York Timesafter her sentencing , Sorokin said she ’d “ be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I pronounce I was dismal for anything . I rue the way I went about certain affair . ” That deficiency of self-reproach for bilking the rich and last her best life has made Sorokin a bit of afolk herofor some of the public .
Deadlinereportedin June that Shonda Rhimes would write the serial adaptation for Netflix of Jessica Pressler’sNew York Magazinestory about Sorokin ’s spectacular grift . And , lest you reverence that this improbable shitshow of a saga is anywhere close to its logical end , HBO is also working on an adaptation of the grifter ’s saga . Lena Dunham isproducing .
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