Russian-speaking swindler Anna Sorokina (Delvi) even from prison was able to pull off a scam: the victim lost $ 8000

If you're working with a notorious scammer, don't be surprised when something goes wrong. Julia Morrison, an artist from Los Angeles, California, claims she is owed $8000. We are talking about her participation in a recent art exhibition in support of the sensational Russian-speaking swindler Anna “Delvy” Sorokina in New York, who is now in immigration prison. According to Julia, the socialite blocked her text messages asking her to help her get the money owed to her. New York Post.

Morrison co-curated the "Free Anna" exhibition in March, which featured the work of 15 artists, including Sorokin herself. The exhibition was held at a gallery in the Lower East Side (New York). Morrison says she spent about $8000 on her credit card to cover the cost of decorating, printing, scanning, shipping, making t-shirts, and more. She claims that her curator Alfredo Martinez, a colleague of Sorokina, promised to return her money. There was no written agreement.

“I still have $8000 of debt on my credit card,” Morrison said. “I can't afford to cover Anna Delvey's expenses with my credit card. I spent this money not in order to become a good friend to her, but for the sake of the show, knowing that this money would be returned to me. At least that's what Alfredo promised."

“She (Julia Morrison) will get paid,” Martinez told reporters who contacted him. “We are still at the stage of spending the money allocated for the project.”

Morrison has already been paid 25% of the sale of Sorokina's only work that was sold on the show. Martinez also received 25% and Sorokina 50%.

Communication with Sorokina did not produce results

Morrison also claimed that there was an agreement between art dealer Chris Martin, Martinez and her that the curators of the first show would also curate Sorokin's solo exhibition "Allegedly". The exhibition was held last week at the Public Hotel. But for some reason Morrison was expelled from it.

When numerous calls and messages to art dealer Chris Martin (who said he owed nothing to anyone) went unanswered, Morrison turned to Sorokina, hoping she could convince someone to reimburse her.

“This is the first time I hear about this,” Sorokina wrote in a text message dated May 18, 2022. She then blocked Morrison's number.

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A spokesman for Sorokina confirmed that Morrison is owed reimbursement. But he added that Anna herself definitely did not promise Julia any money. He also said that Morrison was not asked to be a curator or involved in any way with Sorokina's solo exhibition, and that Anna had indeed stopped communicating with her because her collaboration had ended.

For her part, Morrison said she no longer wants to deal with Sorokina.

“I try to see the good in people, their potential,” Morrison said. Anna sees the good in people as something that she can use to enrich herself. So it’s best to just forget about it.”

As ForumDaily New York previously wrote, currently Sorokina is in immigration detention. She served time in prison for her scams and is now facing deportation. The woman has German citizenship and Russian roots.

Fraudulent adventures Sorokina attracted a lot of attention in New York. Her story has recently been in the spotlight Netflix series “Inventing Anna”.

A detailed description of her scams can be read here. In short, the list of charges against her looks like this:

• Tried unsuccessfully to get a loan of $ 22 million for her fund. To prove her worth, she produced fake bank statements. Since she never got the money, she was found not guilty for this episode.
• She managed to get an overdraft in the amount of 100 thousand dollars from City National Bank by presenting fake evidence that she has foreign assets.
• Within a month after that, Sorokina spent $ 55 on living in the luxurious 11 Howard Hotel, designer clothes, classes with a personal trainer and electronics.
• One of the witnesses said that Sorokina asked her to book a hotel room in Marrakech worth $ 7 per night with a pool and a personal servant. Sorokin was supposed to pay for all this, but her credit card did not work when she was checked out. As a result, the costs had to be covered by the witness herself - in total, it amounted to about 62 thousand dollars in six days.