For Anna Sorokin, 'Crime Pays, In A Way'

Anna Sorokin: Anna Sorokin, the infamous 'fake heiress' had made an appearance on BBC’s Newsnight after having a book and an upcoming Netflix series dedicated to her.

When she was asked whether crime pays, she replied by saying, “In a way, it did.” During the course of the interview, she went on to say that she never thought she cheating anyone and that she was not manipulative.  “I just told people what I wanted and they gave it to me, or I would move on," she said.

Anna Sorokin Gets A Huge Sum From Netflix

Recently, Netflix had paid Anna Sorokin a sum of $320,000 in order to convert her life story into a series. It will be produced by Shonda Rhimes, and Julia Garner will be portraying her. Sorokin then paid $170,000 as restitution to the banks she had cheated on. However, she was not permitted to keep the entire amount that Netflix had paid her. “I never asked for Netflix to buy my story, it just happened,” Sorokin said. “And everything else, it just spun out of my control. It’s not like I orchestrated anything.”

Sorokin faked her way through life by posing as a rich German heiress who scammed many banks and businesses with a hefty sum of $200,000. She had also tried to launch a Manhattan art club with a $22 million bank loan. She was then produced before a judge at Manhattan Criminal Court in 2019 and was released from the Albion Correctional Facility in February for her good behaviour. She was charged with grand larceny for conning the elite people of New York for several years and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Anna Sorokin also claims that the prosecution had played a role in creating her persons during the trial. "The prosecution totally misrepresented my motives. They said I paraded around New York, posing as an heiress. What happened was strictly between me and financial institutions, it was none of their business. They portrayed me as a wannabe socialite party girl and that was never my goal," she says.