Anna Sorokin, whose remarkable story was made into the Netflix series Inventing Anna, has been released from prison in the US.
The Russian-born German citizen was arrested in 2017 after being accused of posing as a fake heiress called Anna Delvey and swindling over $275,000 out of major banks, hotels and friends on the New York social scene.
In 2019 she was convicted and sentenced to between four and 12 years in prison, but after two years inside she was remanded to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation back to Germany after overstaying her visa.
Now 31, Sorokin secured her release on Wednesday when an immigration judge ruled in her favour - albeit requiring her to pay $10,000 bail, wear an electronic tag and remain off social media.
"She hasn't been accused of committing a crime since 2017," her lawyer is quoted as saying by Bloomberg. "And the evidence clearly demonstrated that any risk she does pose can be adequately managed through supervision, electronic monitoring, parole, and the supervision of ICE."
Sorokin has already paid off her victims after receiving a reported $320,000 from Netflix for the dramatisation of her story.
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