Anna Delvey's Real Name: Anna Sorokin

Quick answer: Anna Delvey's documented legal name is Anna Sorokin. The Associated Press and the BBC both identify her as Anna Sorokin and say she used the name Anna Delvey. A Manhattan jury convicted her in April 2019 of grand larceny, theft of services, and attempted grand larceny; in May she was sentenced to four to 12 years (Associated Press; BBC).

Real name and early life

She is known publicly as Anna Delvey, an assumed name. Both AP and the BBC use Anna Sorokin as the name under which she was tried and sentenced. The BBC describes her as a German woman and, like AP, says she faced deportation to Germany. AP reports that authorities said she had overstayed her visa. Neither of those 2019 reports gives a birth date or a birthplace in the extracts consulted, so those details are not asserted here. The BBC, at sentencing in May 2019, gave her age as 28. Under the Delvey name, both sources say, she presented herself as a wealthy German heiress.

Career highlights

Legal matters

AP, in an April 25, 2019, report, says a Manhattan jury found Sorokin guilty of four counts of theft of services, three counts of grand larceny, and one count of attempted grand larceny after a monthlong trial, and acquitted her of one count of grand larceny and one count of attempted grand larceny. The BBC, reporting the May 9, 2019, sentencing, says she had been found guilty in April of theft of services and grand larceny involving more than $200,000, convicted on eight counts, and found not guilty of a Morocco-related charge, which is compatible with AP. Justice Diane Kiesel sentenced her to four to 12 years, the BBC says, and fined her $24,000 with about $199,000 in restitution and credit for time served since October 2017. Both sources say she rejected a plea deal.

AP and the BBC describe the case as a pose as a German heiress used to obtain luxury hotel stays and, AP says, a $100,000 bank loan she failed to repay, plus an unsuccessful attempt at a much larger loan for a planned arts club. Those points are summarized only as the conduct the court addressed.

Name notes for searchers

Anna Sorokin is the documented legal name in AP and BBC coverage of the trial and sentence. Anna Delvey is the assumed name she used in New York. Searchers looking for the 2019 "fake heiress" case are usually aiming at the same person.