Con artist Anna Delvey joins line-up Dancing With The Stars

Sorokin can be paired on the present with skilled dancer Ezra Sosa – and can be carrying an ankle monitor as she competes. She has worn the ankle monitor since 2022 when she began her home arrest, AP reported. She has been preventing a deportation order.

Her spokesperson Juda Engelmayer informed AP that she was capable of journey inside 70 miles (110km) of her residence and anyplace inside New York Metropolis below earlier home arrest circumstances, however couldn’t touch upon any modifications to these guidelines.

However talking to Leisure Tonight, exterior on the present’s launch, Delvey stated she needed to get permission to journey out of state to movie the present. She additionally stated she can be “bejewelling” her ankle tag.

Requested if she had any nerves forward of the present, she stated: “What is the worst that may occur? They can not arrest me for dancing badly.”

The fraudster was discovered responsible in 2019 of theft of companies and grand larceny, having scammed greater than $200,000 (£145,000) from banks and luxurious inns.

She would inform folks she had a $60m (£46m) belief fund and an bold undertaking to create an eponymous arts basis.

However she was, in actual fact, a latest journal intern, who got here from an abnormal household of Russian immigrants dwelling in Germany.

By staying in costly inns and presenting a jet-set life on Instagram, she managed to trick others into believing her fantasy and choosing up her payments.

Her story got here to worldwide consideration in 2018 after a New York Journal function by author Jessica Pressler.

It was then tailored by Shonda Rhimes, the artistic power behind Gray’s Anatomy, Bridgerton and Scandal, in a Netflix sequence the place Sorokin was performed by Julia Garner.

Sorokin was paid $320,000 (£230,000) by Netflix for Inventing Anna – however she was not capable of maintain all of the Netflix cash, owing to a New York regulation that stops criminals from taking advantage of their notoriety.

“I by no means requested for Netflix to purchase my story, it simply occurred,” Sorokin informed the BBC in 2021, following her launch from jail. “And all the things else, it simply spun out of my management.”

The BBC podcast sequence Faux Heiress is on BBC Sounds