![]() Indeed, many of the people surrounding Delvey identify themselves with only first names and are somewhat difficult to trace. We were told to contact various other lawyers and managers involved, but they were identified only by first names, such as “Blake” or “Gregori.” His office referred us to her commercial attorney, Ira Meyerowitz, who was not accepting phone messages and didn’t reply to emails seeking comment. Sorokin’s criminal attorney Manny Arora did not return calls seeking comment. ![]() She was released in 2021 for good behavior and was slated to be deported to Germany earlier this week but missed the plane, according to her immigration attorney. She was convicted of grand larceny in 2019 and sentenced to four years in prison. Sorokin was charged in 2018 for fleecing New York City’s high society, bankers, luxury hotels and restaurants by pretending to be a German heiress. But while in prison, she said, art became a comfort and a constant. Before incarceration, “I wasn’t necessarily an artist but I took some fashion illustration courses,” said Sorokin. Sorokin does indeed appear to identify herself as an artist, noting in a recent podcast interview from prison with Whitehot, that people are saying “I was just like Warhol, in a suit.” She’s not quite classically trained though, she admits. The O-1 visa “is for the individual who possesses extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or who has a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry and has been recognized nationally or internationally for those achievements,” according to the U.S. Immigration has an exempt category for “creatives,” a so-called O-1 visa, and Delvey might hope as an artist she meets its very specific criteria. Indeed, the art show could serve a deeper purpose for Delvey. Painter and Whitehot magazine founder and publisher Noah Becker, whose works will also appear in the exhibition, runs a buzzy Friday Art Gossip room with young Miami conceptual artist John Barrymore.īecker, founder of Whitehot and its podcast, says he talked to Sorokin from Orange County prison about the art show and she was looking forward to it–“She wants to make sure that whatever she does is legal.” She wants to “push her narrative away from her past behavior.” The art show was first leaked on the social-media app Clubhouse.
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