'Fake heiress' Anna Sorokin speaks on her fight against deportation after release from ICE detention

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Video of Anna Sorokin from her East Village apartment

Video of con woman Anna Sorokin from her East Village apartment fresh after her release from prison.

"Fake heiress" Anna Sorokin, who was released late last week from U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody described in her first public interview her efforts to remain in the U.S. instead of being deported to her home country of Germany.

Sorokin, who also went by the name Anna Delvey, was sprung from ICE custody late Friday and was instead confined to house arrest, which she will carry out at an East Village apartment in New York City. Just Sunday, the 31-year-old could be seen partaking in a photo shoot in her apartment and on the rooftop of the building.  

Sorokin, whose story re-emerged after the release of the Netflix show, "Inventing Anna," reportedly spoke to The New York Times just hours after she was released. She told the newspaper she chose to dispute her immigration case in ICE custody, rather than from Germany, because she "did not want it to go down the way ICE wanted it to."

"Letting them deport me would have been like a sign of capitulation — confirmation of this perception of me as this shallow person who only cares about obscene wealth, and that’s just not the reality," she reportedly said. "I could have left, but I chose not to because I’m trying to fix what I’ve done wrong."

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Newly released Anna Sorokin waves from New York City window on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2022 (Credit: Dario Alequin for Fox News Digital)

Sorokin described how she has "so much history in New York and I felt like if I were in Europe, I’d be running from something." 

She told the Times: "But if jail does not prove people wrong, then what will?"

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She said she was most excited about "finding [her] way back," according to the report, and said she is "not a glam-it-up type of person, but the possibilities are endless." 

Asked about her plans for the future, she said she is working on several "projects," including "art," and added that she is working on a podcast.

Newly released Anna Sorokin waves from New York City window on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2022 (Credit: Dario Alequin for Fox News Digital)

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"I’d love to do something with criminal-justice reform to kind of highlight the struggles of other girls," she went on."

Sorokin was reportedly required to produce three months’ worth of her lease, which Fox News Digital learned was $4,500 per-month.

When asked in the New York Times interview where the money was "coming from," she responded: "I guess you’ll have to ask the government." 

Newly released Anna Sorokin waves from New York City Window (Dario Alequin for Fox News Digital)

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Sorokin went by the name Anna Delvey as she spent years posing as the rich daughter of a German diplomat. She boasted the bogus fortune of 60 million euros and was seen among the New York City social scene for years before her scheme was foiled. 

She was convicted in 2019 on theft of services and larceny charges, though she plans to appeal the conviction. She was released in early 2021 – but was taken into ICE custody just weeks later.

Anna Sorokin, who a New York jury convicted last month of swindling more than $200,000 from banks and people, reacts during her sentencing at Manhattan State Supreme Court New York, May 9, 2019. (Steven Hirsch/Pool)

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Last week, a judge granted her release on $10,000 under the condition of 24-hour house arrest and a social media ban as she fights her deportation, according to previous Fox News Digital reports. Immigration authorities are seeking to have her deported to Germany, where she has citizenship, for overstaying her visa. 

Fox News' Rebecca Rosenberg contributed to this report.