Pretend heiress Anna Sorokin cheated her lawyer out of greater than $152,000 in authorized companies, new lawsuit says
- Anna Sorokin’s ex-lawyer filed a grievance claiming she cheated her out of $152,000 in service charges.
- Audrey A. Thomas stated Sorokin filed false allegations towards her to the grievance committee.
- Thomas is going through felony prosecution herself and was disbarred in November final 12 months.
Anna Sorokin, who posed as a German heiress beneath the title “Anna Delvey,” cheated her lawyer out of greater than $152,000 in authorized companies, in line with a Manhattan Supreme Courtroom lawsuit submitted on Tuesday.
Sorokin employed lawyer Audrey A. Thomas in 2020 to signify her in her immigration case and to assist her attraction her felony conviction of getting defrauded an estimated $275,000 from inns, associates, and banks, the lawsuit stated.
The flowery four-year rip-off allowed Sorokin to stay an opulent life-style amid New York’s excessive society, which ultimately led to her arrest and subsequent conviction in 2019. She was launched from incarceration in 2021 and is at present beneath home arrest in her East Village residence.
Within the grievance, Sorokin’s lawyer argues that the pretend heiress lied to get out of paying “astronomical authorized charges” by submitting false allegations towards her to the grievance committee.
“The false statements by [Sorokin] towards Plaintiffs’ curiosity had been made for the only real objective of inflicting damage to Plaintiffs and to wreck Plaintiffs’ status and standing, in the neighborhood,” the grievance stated.
It’s unclear precisely what the false allegations are. Thomas didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.
Thomas herself is going through felony prosecution after she was accused of stealing cash from an aged shopper a number of years in the past, The New York Put up reported. In consequence, she was disbarred in November final 12 months.
The disbarment “was not associated to the info or circumstances that gave rise to this lawsuit,” Thomas stated in her grievance.
The lawyer additionally stated that Sorokin was nicely conscious of her authorized troubles after they began their attorney-client relationship, including: “Anna truly instructed me that she employed me as a result of she believed that if anybody would battle for her I’d as a result of I do know what it’s wish to be wrongfully accused and publicly shamed.”
Sorokin fired Thomas in April 2022. She took her to court docket final 12 months, claiming the lawyer hadn’t returned court docket information to assist her battle her deportation case in an appeals court docket, Regulation & Crime reported.
“[Thomas] is attempting to get as a lot as she will be able to out of being related to me and my story,” Sorokin instructed The New York Put up on the time.
Sorokin didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.
