Amid Anna Sorokin‘s house arrest in a New York apartment building that has been condemned as imminently perilous to life, she’s attempting to capture outside attention and relieving her boredom in the most quotidian way: starting a podcast. “So many people became famous for bad things and were able to kind of segue it into something different,” she recently told The Associated Press in her East Village apartment. “The main theme of my podcast is productive rule-breaking,” she said of “The Anna Delvey Show”.
For now, she wants to reimagine her public image to shake her reputation of being a con artist and a scammer. “I’m on 24/7 house arrest.
I’m only allowed to leave for my parole check-ins, my ICE check-ins and for medical emergencies,” she said. Behind her is a life-size cutout of her likeness — created by artist Kenny Schachter — which, like Sorokin herself, is wearing an ankle monitoring device.
Going by the name Anna Delvey, she posed as a German heiress and lied about having a $67 million trust fund in order to apply for loans, run up debts and secure a historic building for a private arts club.
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