The legal battles behind Anna Delvey’s Dancing With The Stars debut
The legal battles behind Anna Delvey’s Dancing With The Stars debut
Dancing with the Stars is known for its glitz and glitter, and a staple of US television for almost 20 years. But on Tuesday during the show’s prime-time season premiere, there will be a twist, when convicted fraudster Anna Delvey - real name Anna Sorokin - takes to the floor wearing a bejewelled ankle monitor.
In a press release, Disney-owned ABC called Sorokin “an artist, fashion icon and infamous NYC socialite”, as well as “a notorious ankle bracelet fashionista”. She will be joining a cast that includes an NBA veteran, various reality-TV stars, and two Olympians, for the latest edition of the US spin-off from the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing format.
Critics accused the channel of glamorising her past crimes. The New York Post called it a “new low for pop culture”.
Some have also questioned how she has right to live and work in the US, as a German-Russian citizen.
Sorokin’s electronic ankle monitor is not for her original 2019 convictions, which came after she travelled the world masquerading as a European heiress, conning banks, lawyers and a private jet company out of more than $200,000 (£150,000).
Instead, the ankle monitor is the result of a years-long immigration battle in the US, where she is fighting deportation.
Debates online are raging over this new chapter of infamy.
Some appear to admire her endless ambition, as if she represents some sort of warped American Dream. Others have slammed her continued self-promotion and seeming lack of remorse as shameless.
During a heated discussion on The View talk show, Whoopi Goldberg said her ability to appear on Dancing with the Stars, despite facing immigration charges, is an example of a “two-tier immigration system” that favours the wealthy or connected.
Others have said it's hardly surprising to see her convictions being overlooked in a country where a felon is running for president.
Sorokin first gained notoriety when New York Magazine published an investigation into her misdeeds in 2018. Her scams were later explored in the Netflix series Inventing Anna and BBC podcast Fake Heiress.
It was the audacity that intrigued people. She had worked her way into elite circles in New York City in a ruse that lasted for years. Her goal was to secure a $22m loan to build an arts foundation in her own name.
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While living under the heiress persona, she forged bank statements, failed to settle thousands of dollars in hotel bills, dashed out of restaurants without paying, bounced cheques, created fake emails from accountants, and let others pick up her tabs after extravagant spending. Small businesses and individuals were also affected.
“She’s been a public figure for a long enough time that I don’t think people remember the details of what the crimes were – if ever they really knew them in the first place,” said Jessica Pressler, who wrote the first piece on her in New York Magazine, and became the inspiration for the fictionalised journalist character in Inventing Anna.
“People don’t look that far past the surface,” she added, acknowledging this is what aided the original grift. “Dancing With the Stars… it’s a natural extension of the story.”
