28. The First Arrest
Anna was soon arrested for her outstanding hotel bills. “WANNABE SOCIALITE BUSTED FOR SKIPPING OUT ON PRICEY HOTEL BILLS,” the newspapers heralded as soon as they caught wind of the story. Anna found herself a lawyer and got out on bail. From there it was back to the usual.
She somehow gathered some funds and took a trip to California where she was arrested again, in Malibu. She was forced to return to New York “to face six counts of grand larceny and attempted grand larceny, in addition to theft of services.”
29. The Truth
Anna was sent to Rikers Island jail without bail this time. She is currently awaiting trial and faces three to nine years in prison. And as it turned out, she wasn’t a German heiress after all. Her real name was Anna Sorokin and she was born in Russia in 1991. Her family later moved to Germany in 2007.
And she was certainly no heiress. She came from a working-class family. When they were asked about a trust fund, they reportedly said that it was the first that they ever heard of such a fund. Meaning, it doesn’t exist.
