Dancing With The Stars: Anna Delvey joins line-up

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Dancing With The Stars: Anna Delvey joins line-up

**** artist Anna Delvey, whose life story inspired the

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series Inventing Anna, has signed up to be a contestant on Dancing With The Stars, the US version of Strictly Come Dancing.

In the last few years, Delvey – whose real name is Anna Sorokin – has become infamous for her *******, pretending to be a wealthy socialite in New York.

This year’s Dancing With The Stars cast also includes two Team USA Olympians, rugby player Ilona Maher and gymnastic bronze medallist Stephen Nedoroscik, and Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Tori Spelling.

Also on the dancefloor will be Oscar nominee Eric Roberts and Real Housewives of Atlanta star Phaedra Parks.

Sorokin will be paired on the show with professional dancer Ezra Sosa.

The fraudster was found guilty in 2019 of theft of services and grand larceny, having scammed more than $200,000 (£145,000) from banks and luxury hotels.

She would tell people she had a $60m (£46m) trust fund and an ambitious project to create an eponymous arts foundation.

But she was, in fact, a recent magazine intern, who came from an ordinary family of Russian immigrants living in Germany.

By staying in expensive hotels and presenting a jet-set life on

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, she managed to trick others into believing her fantasy and picking up her bills.

Her story came to international attention in 2018 after a New York Magazine feature by writer Jessica Pressler.

It was then adapted by Shona Rhimes, the creative force behind Grey’s Anatomy, Bridgerton and Scandal, in a

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series where Sorokin was played by Julia Garner.

Sorokin was paid $320,000 (£230,000) by

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for Inventing Anna – but she was not able to keep all the

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money, owing to a New York law that prevents ********** from profiting from their notoriety.

“I never asked for

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to buy my story, it just happened,” Sorokin told the BBC in 2021, following her release from prison. “And everything else, it just spun out of my control.”

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