{"id":50846,"date":"2024-09-08T09:55:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T13:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=50846"},"modified":"2024-09-08T09:55:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T13:55:04","slug":"did-anna-delvey-go-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/did-anna-delvey-go-to-jail\/50846\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Anna Delvey go to jail?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2018, Anna Delvey became a household name, thanks to a captivating article by Jessica Pressler in New York Magazine<\/em>, titled \u201cMaybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It.\u201d The piece detailed Delvey\u2019s meteoric rise in the New York social scene.<\/p>\n

Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, managed to fool much of Manhattan\u2019s elite into believing she was a wealthy German heiress. In reality, she was far from it. She befriended influential figures, convincing them to fund her lavish lifestyle, including luxury vacations and investment ventures, while she racked up unpaid bills at high-end hotels. Her audacious acts of deception made her a subject of fascination, especially because many saw her crimes as \u201cvictimless,\u201d given that she was mainly targeting the rich.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to feel too bad for the affluent people she scammed, many of whom didn\u2019t face any life-altering financial consequences. In fact, some viewed Delvey as a sort of anti-hero \u2014 except she wasn\u2019t American, but rather from Russia. Eventually, her fa\u00e7ade crumbled, and her so-called friends turned on her. When millions of dollars are at stake, loyalty disappears. Delvey\u2019s fraud was exposed, and it turned out that deceiving the wealthy elite is indeed a criminal offense.<\/p>\n

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Was Anna Delvey sentenced to prison?<\/h3>\n

After swindling roughly $200,000 from her high-society marks, Delvey faced the consequences. She was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for grand larceny and other theft-related charges. However, she only served two years before landing in ICE custody for overstaying her visa. Delvey claimed that the visa debacle wasn\u2019t her fault and later shared, via Business Insider<\/em>, that she contracted COVID-19 while in custody and was denied a booster shot.<\/p>\n

Despite her legal troubles, public fascination with Delvey only grew. Netflix capitalized on this by releasing Inventing Anna<\/em>, a miniseries produced by Shonda Rhimes. Julia Garner, an Emmy-winning actor, portrayed Delvey, complete with her distinctive Eastern European accent. Anna Chlumsky played a fictionalized version of Pressler, the journalist who chronicled Delvey\u2019s case. Stories of fraudsters have always captivated people, and Delvey\u2019s tale had an extra layer of intrigue\u2014she managed to pull off her schemes for years, and in today\u2019s \u201cEat the Rich\u201d climate, her wealthy victims didn\u2019t garner much sympathy.<\/p>\n

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What is Anna Delvey doing now?<\/h3>\n

Delvey is now out of custody but remains under house arrest, wearing an ankle monitor. Yet, even that hasn\u2019t stopped her from landing one of the most unexpected post-prison gigs: appearing on Dancing With the Stars<\/em>. She\u2019s set to compete in season 33, ankle monitor and all. While it might seem odd to see a convicted con artist on a major reality show, it aligns with the strange reality of modern celebrity culture. For Delvey, her time behind bars is already a distant memory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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