Con artist Anna Delvey, whose life story impressed the Netflix sequence Inventing Anna, has signed as much as be a contestant on Dancing With The Stars, the US model of Strictly Come Dancing.
In the previous couple of years, Delvey – whose actual title is Anna Sorokin – has turn into notorious for her crimes, pretending to be a rich socialite in New York.
This 12 months’s Dancing With The Stars solid additionally contains two Staff USA Olympians, rugby participant Ilona Maher and gymnastic bronze medallist Stephen Nedoroscik, and Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Tori Spelling.
Additionally on the dancefloor will probably be Oscar nominee Eric Roberts and Actual Housewives of Atlanta star Phaedra Parks.
Sorokin will probably be paired on the present with skilled dancer Ezra Sosa – and will probably be carrying an ankle monitor as she competes. She has worn the ankle monitor since 2022 when she began her home arrest, AP reported. She has been combating a deportation order.
Her spokesperson Juda Engelmayer instructed AP that she was in a position to journey inside 70 miles (110km) of her dwelling and anyplace inside New York Metropolis underneath earlier home arrest situations, however couldn’t touch upon any modifications to these guidelines.
The fraudster was discovered responsible in 2019 of theft of companies and grand larceny, having scammed greater than $200,000 (£145,000) from banks and luxurious lodges.
She would inform individuals she had a $60m (£46m) belief fund and an bold undertaking to create an eponymous arts basis.
However she was, the truth is, a latest journal intern, who got here from an atypical household of Russian immigrants dwelling in Germany.
By staying in costly lodges and presenting a jet-set life on Instagram, she managed to trick others into believing her fantasy and selecting up her payments.
Her story got here to worldwide consideration in 2018 after a New York Journal function by author Jessica Pressler.
It was then tailored by Shonda Rhimes, the inventive drive behind Gray’s Anatomy, Bridgerton and Scandal, in a Netflix sequence the place Sorokin was performed by Julia Garner.
Sorokin was paid $320,000 (£230,000) by Netflix for Inventing Anna – however she was not in a position to preserve all of the Netflix cash, owing to a New York regulation that forestalls criminals from benefiting from their notoriety.
“I by no means requested for Netflix to purchase my story, it simply occurred,” Sorokin instructed the BBC in 2021, following her launch from jail. “And the whole lot else, it simply spun out of my management.”
The BBC podcast sequence Faux Heiress is on BBC Sounds