New York Post and The New York Times, as well as on YouTube, Twitter and Instagram. But briefly the facts are these: Sorokin, whose father ran a logistics company (she denies reports that he was a truck driver) and whose mother was a housewife, moved to Paris in 2011.
She changed her name and landed an internship with culture magazine Purple, making connections in the art world and feigning a gilded background.Armed with these, she moved to the Big Apple in 2013 and swiftly and expertly bit a chunk out of the fattest wallets in the city (as well as those of some rather more modestly paid friends, of which more later).
She used bad cheques, non-functioning credit cards and excuses to live in hotel suites and dine in top restaurants, and she.
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