'Socialite' Anna Delvey’s Prison Post Asks Visitors To Stop Ruining Her ‘Sleep Schedule’

KEY POINTS

Anna Sorokin, better known by her fake identity Anna Delvey, used a fraudulent identity as a German heiress to swindle banks and friends for years
She was arrested after a friend she scammed out of 60,000 lured her back to New York
She now seems to regret the fanbase she built with media-focused court-room fashion shows, having received too many unannounced visitors in prison

Anna Sorokin, imprisoned for a long con in which she passed herself off as a wealthy German socialite named Anna Delvey to secure bank loans, has said that she will no longer receive visitors she does not know. Her substantial fan base has apparently been a bit too much for her as she serves her four-year prison sentence.

“...Please do not show up here to visit me unannounced. I am not making the same mistake of not checking the visitor’s identity again, and I won’t be accepting any visits from names I don’t recognize,” she posted Monday to her 72K Instagram followers.

Sorokin went on to complain said visitors are interrupting her beauty sleep. "So the days of hoping to catch me slipping are over," she added, "and all you're achieving by coming here is wasting your time and interfering with my sleep schedule."

Anna Sorokin, better known as Anna Delvey, the 28-year-old German national, whose family moved there in 2007 from Russia, is seen in the courtroom during her trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York on April 11, 2019. Getty Images/TIMOTHY A. CLARY

Sorokin, now 29, was arrested in New York in 2017 after an acquaintance helped authorities with a sting operation because Sorokin had swindled her out of $60,000.

Authorities claim Sorokin used her fake identity as a wealthy heiress to swindle both banks and individuals, using her nonexistent fortune as loan collateral and promising to pay her friends back for expensive vacations.

Sorokin treated the trial as another media opportunity, reports Insider, refusing to appear in court for three days after the judge ordered her to stop wearing fashionable ensembles for the press. Meanwhile, prosecutors focused on the jury, calling banker after banker to the stand to read financial statements or technical documents showing that Sorokin had falsified information.

Sorokin was eventually convicted in 2019 on multiple fraud charges, including second-degree grand larceny and theft of services, reports Buzzfeed News. At the time, she faced up to 12 years behind bars.

Her imprisonment hasn’t stopped her from courting fame online, however. Her courtroom fashion shows attracted an online following, and Sorokin cultivates a meager Instagram profile with occasional posts such as “... But I’m too pretty to go to jail.”