Anna Sorokin has recently been found guilty of fraud and theft recently in New York in a case which the BBC summarized nicely as follows:
‘Incredibly far, in the case of Anna Delvey - real name Anna Sorokin - who tricked the city's elite into thinking she was a billionaire heiress. She hired a private jet, went to all the best parties, and threw cash at everyone she saw - a $100 (£78) tip if you carried her bag or were her Uber driver.
Yet, ultimately, her time at the top was short-lived. And it unravelled spectacularly.
In real life, Sorokin had no multi-million-dollar trust fund. According to New York Magazine, her father is a former trucker, who runs a heating-and-cooling business.
After her credit cards began to fail - repeatedly - and she was kicked out of the luxury hotels she lived in, other people were left to pick up the bills.
Following a month-long trial, Sorokin has now been found guilty of multiple offences, including stealing more than $200,000 - after racking up debts and fraudulently trying to secure major bank loans.’ (1)
Now one thing immediately came to my mind: is Anna Sorokin jewish?
Sorokin immigrated to the United States from Russia and reportedly comes from a ‘middle class Russian family’. (2) Sorokin is also a common jewish surname in Russia meaning ‘Magpie’ (3) – ironic in Anna Sorokin’s case – but is also widely in use among the ethnic Russian population. (4)
So therefore, it seems likely that Anna Sorokin is jewish, but we don’t have any definitive evidence that is the case only circumstantial evidence suggesting such a conclusion.
References
(1) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47741923
(2) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/anna-sorokin-trial-anna-delvey-new-york-fake-heiress-grand-larceny-a8887126.html
(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorokin; Benzion Kagnoff, 1978, ‘A Dictionary of Jewish Names and their History’, 1st Edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul: London, p. 198
(4) Ibid.