A couple of modeling agencies pulled their employees from the fashion show because they heard Anna Delvey was involved in the project.
Anna Delvey teamed up with a well-known publicist for New York Fashion Week. PETE
A financial swindler posing as a rich heiress Anna Delveyproperly named Anna Sorokin, has been under house arrest for almost a year due to, among other things, aggravated theft and deportation from Germany. However, that didn’t stop her from hosting a fashion show at New York Fashion Week.
CNN:According to the information obtained by n, one of the world’s most famous fraudsters got to work at fashion weeks, a TV personality and a publisher Kelly Cutrone through. According to the magazine, the two have founded a new fashion and PR company called OutLaw Agency together.
Hiring Delvey initially caused problems due to his house arrest and ankle transmitter collar. The fashion show was organized on the roof of Delvey’s home, so that he would not accidentally break his house arrest. According to Delvey, he did not have to ask the landlord for permission to organize the event, but only to inform the other residents of the apartment building about it.
Anna Delvey and Kelly Cutrone say they plan to continue working together. SAJA
According to current information, Cutrone had warned the models before the fashion show not to get too close to the edge of the roof. Some of the witnesses later heard Cutrone say to Delvey: “What if we fall off the roof and die? Wouldn’t that be good press?
Delvey, Cutrone and the fashion designer commented
CNN caught up with Delvey, Cutrone and one of the fashion designers Shao Yang’s for a video call interview. Yang said he was aware that Delvey might bring more media to the scene than the event itself.
– I think it was genius. I am so lucky to be a part of this project, because otherwise I would hardly be noticed as a new designer, says Yang.
The news about Anna Delvey’s hosting in the fashion show attracted a lot of media. SAJA
Cutrone was happy to answer the newspaper’s questions about hiring Delvey and its sanctions. He admitted that two modeling agencies had pulled their staff from the fashion show when they heard Delvey was part of the project. One modeling agency, on the other hand, had asked for payment in advance if Delvey would participate in the fashion show.
Delvey himself did not agree to take a stand on Cutrone’s story, but made one thing clear.
– If you feel uncomfortable in my company, it’s all the same to me.
– This is about Shao. People can think what they want, but we’re going to have fun. People either accept it or not, who cares?
Anna Delvey’s Crimes
Fraudster heiress Anna Sorokin was arrested in 2017 and charged with fraud and causing financial damage to banks, hotels and other entities for more than $275,000.
Sorokin had pretended to be a wealthy German heiress and acquired real estate in the best location in New York, famous billionaire friends and partying spectacularly in the most expensive places in the big city.
The heiress’ close circle raised doubts about the woman’s stories, when she borrowed large sums of money from her friends and lived in different hotels for short periods of time. After the scenes collapsed, behind the role was revealed Sorokin, who was of Russian background, and who was not an heir or a wealthy person, but a very ordinary woman.
In 2019, Sorokin was sentenced to 12 years in prison for second-degree property crime and theft of services. His debt for loans, or scams, was 22 million dollars to several different entities and 62,000 dollars to his friend To Rachel DeLoache Williams.
– I wanted to build something from nothing. I wanted to do my own thing and be in control of it. I wanted to tell people what to do. There is a big difference between being the recipient or the payer, he commented on his intentions earlier Forbidden Fruitson the podcast.
Around the same time, Netflix made a feature about him that combines fact and fiction Inventing Anna – series, where he is played by someone who has done detailed background work Julia Garner.
Photo of Anna Delvey at the trial. Stella Pictures