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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgd2y5e23jo ] QUOTE START “She’s been a public figure for a long enough time that I don’t think people remember the details of what the crimes were – if ever they really knew them in the first place,” said Jessica Pressler, who wrote the first piece on her in New York Magazine, and became the inspiration for the fictionalised journalist character in Inventing Anna. “People don’t look that far past the surface,” she added, acknowledging this is what aided the original grift. “Dancing With the Stars… it’s a natural extension of the story.” Sorokin was arrested in 2017 while on the run in California and went on criminal trial in New York. In 2019, she was found guilty of eight theft-related charges, and sentenced to between four and 12 years. That was part one of her legal struggles. After serving almost four years, including time in the notorious Rikers Island jail, she was released in February 2021, and was expected to leave the US. But she didn’t go. Six weeks later – following a string of media appearances and having signed a paid TV deal with a German company – [63]immigration authorities arrested her for overstaying her visa. More than three years on, she is still fighting deportation. She has served time back in jail and under house arrest. In 2022, she was scheduled to board a plane in New York to return to Germany. But her lawyer intervened and she did not fly. Litigation regarding her deportation was ongoing, they said. Her exact claims for asylum are unclear, but they are believed to relate to her Russian citizenship. She lived there in her early years but her family moved to Germany in her teens. When she was in New York in her 20s, she had a tourist visa. While under house arrest, Sorokin started her own podcast and did interviews with various media. (Vogue magazine filmed a tour of her apartment in the East Village; Vogue UK wrote a “What is Anna Delvey reading?” feature.) “Most of us would die of embarrassment at doing anything that she does,” said Pressler, describing how Sorokin stayed in a hotel for months without paying the bill and flew to Morocco with no money. “From staying in a hotel for months and not paying bills, to getting on a plane to Morocco with no money, no-one would do that. She does it with aplomb. I think on the whole any admiration people have for her is kind of limited to that.” “They aren’t going to do these things, they don’t think the things she’s done are good, but the ordinary person wishes they could have that belief in themselves.” QUOTE END -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/ZumHglmAOPreX/18%40tau1.ceti.pl.
