'Magic trick': trial begins for fake heiress who swindled friends, banks and hotels

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'Magic trick': trial begins for fake heiress who swindled friends, banks and hotels

 

Anna Sorokin sits at the defense table in New York state supreme court on Wednesday. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP

 

Anna Sorokin traveled in celebrity circles and tossed $100 tips.

 

All the more reason to believe she was the German heiress she said she was.

 

But behind the jet-set lifestyle and pricey threads, prosecutors have said, was a fraudster who bilked friends, banks and hotels for a taste of the high life.

 

Sorokin, 28, lived in luxury New York City hotel rooms she couldn’t afford, promised a friend an all-expenses paid trip to Morocco and then stuck her with the $62,000 bill, and peddled bogus bank statements in a quest for a $22m loan, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has alleged.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/27/anna-sorokin-anna-delvey-trial-fake-heiress