Anna Delvey talks about her new life at home in New York

As long as The Post arrives for an interview and photo shoot, Anna “Delvey” Sorokin has a grocery list: diet cola, garbage bags, water, paper towels. And could someone pick up the lunch too?

On the other hand, it is not like she can run to the bodega by herself. The infamous German scammer – who served four years in prison but was taken into ICE custody a few weeks after her release in 2021 – has been under house arrest since she was released on October 7.

Her new East Village condo is a step up from the Orange County Detention Center where she spent the last 17 months after her visa renewal, but is also far from the luxury Manhattan hotel suites she lived in, stealing about 275,000 from hotels. dollars. associates and financial institutions.

Sorokin, 31, now lives on the fifth floor of a building that is currently being renovated; The drilling noise echoes in her apartment, which has a bed, two chairs, a small table, some artwork and not much else.

It was a last minute place to go, found by her lawyer when Sorokin found out she had been released from ICE custody. The Post reported that one bedroom is offer for $ 4,250 per month.

Although Netflix paid Sorokin $ 320,000 for the rights to her story, it became the Emmy-nominated TV series “Inventing Anna,” which was intended to pay lawyers and make amends for her crimes.

“That money was gone before I left prison,” said The Post.

“New York is so expensive it’s crazy. It cost me about $ 160 for Uber back and forth until my parole in Brooklyn, said Sorokin, who was spotted going to meet his probation officer in a giant SUV.

Is this the only option?

“I can use any means of transport,” she explained. Maybe I should take the subway? Hmmm. Not.”

Sorokin, who was born in Russia, raised in Germany and has an EU passport, has chosen to live in New York and not anywhere else in the world.

“If I wanted to wear nice clothes and be on someone else’s yacht, I could do it. I was able to do this in March. I still have access to all of Europe or the rest of the world, ”she said.

Instead, she chose to remain in ICE custody for almost a year and a half, fighting for a chance to stay in the US. Her goal is to obtain a visa that will allow her to live and work here, and now she is waiting for the decision of the immigration court. (She expressed concern that if she was deported to Germany, she might be sent to Russia, her homeland.)

“I stay and try to fix it, it shows so much about my character,” she added about her American dream. “I think he speaks louder than 1,000 words.”

Sorokin was born on January 23, 1991 in Domodedovo, a working-class suburb of Moscow, where her father, Vadim Sorokin, worked as a truck driver and her mother, Svetlana, owned a small grocery store.

When she was 16, the family – including her younger brother Michael, now a student – moved to the small industrial town of Eschweiler in Germany.

Although Sorokin has not seen her parents since 2017, they are chatting via video chat, and Vadim and Svetlana are well versed in their daughter’s fame. During her time at ICE, Sorokin said that they asked her, “Oh my God, are you in prison for publicity only?”

She hopes to visit New York during the holidays.

Always in fashion, Sorokin dropped out of the prestigious Central St. Martin in London before joining a PR company in Germany. Then he reached Paris. She came to New York in 2013 using the name Anna Delvey – a name she says is “random … no background” – and plans to open a private art club and foundation.

In fact, Sorokin faked the data and lied to the banks, forcing them to lend her tens of thousands of dollars, and persuaded several luxury Manhattan hotels to let her stay on credit in order to leave without settling her bills.

Eventually, she was arrested at an exclusive rehab center in Malibu, California in 2017 (although it’s usually an open book, Sorokin declined to explain why she was there). Sentenced to four to 12 years in prison and transferred to Albion Correctional Facility in upstate New York. She was released early for good behavior.

“It’s not like I had a split personality or anything like that,” she said of her crimes. “I’ve never really had any crazy, formative childhood experience. I just always thought, “Why not? Why would I stay somewhere and be bored? “

Moreover, she insisted, “It was so gradual. To show how young and delusional I was, I felt that I had to build a building in New York that would be an art foundation. We’re going to have this amazing art project, and then every few months a different artist will change the space. [But] who will pay for it? This is how the idea of ​​a private club was born … to make art possible. Then the owner said, “Someone else is looking at the building.” So I admit I was under pressure to make it happen. I thought, “Oh, if I don’t, [investors] it’ll be like, “Oh, that little girl is just full of shit,” and no one will ever work with me again.

“I like to invent and solve problems. And of course this is a very, very bad way, an unfortunate way, I have decided to solve the problem. “

Although Sorokin told the New York Times in 2019 that she wasn’t sorry, she now talks about her criminal behavior: “It was legally wrong. No one should be a victim of cheating … I haven’t tried to cheat the elderly, but it’s the law. “

She insists that at least some of her legend is not true – for example, she pretended to be the heiress.

“When I saw the headlines” Scammer, False Heiress “, I didn’t see myself as such at all. I have never told anyone how much money I have. I never pretended to be who I was, ”she said. “Someone assumed I had all that money just because I was working on this project. I feel this is their problem. “

Sorokin still has big dreams for the future, including plans for an upcoming podcast.

“I mean, not all my ideas are illegal!” she said. “I have received so many offers from so many interesting people and my art has been such a success.”

Prints start at $ 250, and pencil originals can cost anywhere from $ 10,000 to $ 15,000. She is represented by art dealer Chris Martine, who said there was a waiting list to purchase Sorokin originals, many of which were arrested. Feminine and fancy, but often with a dark twist, they feature her life behind bars and even articles about her from The Post.

The new collection of prints will go on sale on Foundersartclub.com next week.

Sorokin said $ 10,000 from the sale of her artwork was used to pay a bond for her apartment.

She also said that she learned lessons in prison to help her out, explaining that she had gotten an “Emergency Conflict and Problem Resolution Course” at Rikers. Now she wants to help with prison reform, especially when it comes to mental health, after seeing so many women needing personalized treatment.

She also said that she understood better what she had done wrong thanks to the perception of her by others. “It took me to get out of jail where you are still very isolated and isolated from the world … and access the media to see the reactions and how it affected people.”

The condition for her release is the lack of social media. Sorokin isn’t sure if this includes dating apps, but said, “There’s no way I’m doing this.”

When asked if she would like to finally start a family, she replied: “In the end, yes, I would like to … But I don’t know, not now. Maybe tomorrow.”

Sorokin works with her favorite stylist and was seen meeting her probation officer this week, wearing a Saint Laurent trench coat, high-heeled sandals, and a silk scarf adorned with a shiny “AD” heel. “I’m inspired by old movies,” she said.

And yet, she added, “I absolutely understand that a government or many people think, ‘Why is this glamor?[…]If someone would look at me and say, “Anna is a criminal. She did it so well. I’ll just do the same, ”I would hate it. This is a very dangerous descent path. It’s a terrible look for everyone.