Anna Sorokin
Appearances
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I guess it's just what people like to hear. They just looked at my Instagram, and this is what they, like, reality that they created.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
She was in touch with me for about a week, just asking me how I was doing and just pretending like nothing was off.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Actually, I had no idea about Rikers. I was really upset at the time, yeah. I just, like, learned to deal with it.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Not physically, no. I was just lucky I never met anyone who was awful to me.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
No, not really. Not at all. I mean, it all kind of happened. And even if I were to get like $100 million from Netflix, like my life in jail would not have changed.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I wanted to go to trial. I felt like it was the only way to tell my story. Most people go to trial to be found not guilty.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I felt like I knew my trial was going to last for a while, and you don't really get any clothes.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I don't know. I didn't have internet at the time to compare myself to other defendants, so I just kind of did what made sense at the time.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I mean, of course they would say something like this. That's their job, to accuse me of crimes.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Like a bank statement, a letter of credit from the bank.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
It felt great. It's exciting to be out, and I'm really happy.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I never had a fraudulent intent, and I guess that's what should really count.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I always knew that, and I was just always trying to fix that.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Yes, I grew up as a single child until my parents had another kid when I was almost 13. So I kind of see myself as a single child because I grew up by myself.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Well, my dad always worked in Germany, so we just moved with him at some point.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
My dad, he is like in infrared heating, solar energy business right now. And your mom? My mom, she's working with him.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I interned at Purple for almost two years. It was a great learning experience, but I always thought, like, I'd be working for Vogue or something like this.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I think it was about a new beginning and doing something new as opposed to escaping anything.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I knew she didn't really want to be there and they made her do it. She literally did not glance at me once except to like us to identify the defendant.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I felt it was like a great indicator that it took almost three days to decide. So it means like, it's not something, oh yeah, she's full of and we're going to find her guilty. So I guess it just like speaks volumes. It's like how I came across.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I mean, just deal with the consequences. What, am I supposed to collapse and cry? I don't know. I would. Well, they had, like, 100 cameras in my face, so...
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I was upset. I guess I felt like a bit misunderstood, but I felt like Rachel was a good victory.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I actually got on the phone with my lawyer and asked him, can I go back to Rikers?
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Because I felt like the beginning is always the hardest. Completely new set of people and new inmates.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I mean, this is just like my life, so I'm just trying to channel this attention into something good.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I guess it remains to be seen. I'm just trying to rewrite my story.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
No, you tell me. Do you feel scammed? Do you feel scammed?
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I feel they were encouraging me. It kind of helps for them to think, like, that I have more money than them.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I liked her and so we had a lot of fun together. She was just a nice girl and I felt she was sweet and she was interesting at the time to me.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Well, she gave me an impression that she only made whatever, $60,000 or $70,000 a year. It's not a big deal for me to, like, pick up a tab for just a couple hundred dollars. I thought it was a nice thing to do.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
God never says like, hey, I'm Anna, I'm a socialite. Like, who says that?
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Why not? I would like to show the world that I'm not this dumb, greedy person that they portrayed me to be.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Me and Rachel, like, kind of brainstormed where we should stay. We came up with La Mamounia in Marrakesh. OK. And they also brought along a film guy.
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Well, I had the money, I guess, at the time when I booked it, and I guess they gave me an impression that they pre-authorized my card or something like that.