A judge has allowed Anna Delvey to return to social media, Page Six has learned. And the “fake heiress” tells us she’s relieved to be able to “control [her] own narrative again” after the ruling.
Delvey was famously jailed in 2019 for posing as an aristocrat to scam various businesses out of around $200,000.
When she got out of prison, Delvey was put under house arrest by immigration courts while she waited to discover whether she would be allowed to stay in the US or if she would be deported to Germany.
As well as slapping an ankle monitor on her, the judge banned Delvey — whose real name is Anna Sorokin — from posting online.
Last year her lawyers said in court papers that the restrictions “serve absolutely no purpose in mitigating any flight risk or threat to the community that Ms. Sorokin may present and clearly violate her constitutional rights.”
Now we’re told the court has finally relented and she’ll be back online Friday evening.
As well as a chance to begin rehabbing her image, the electronic emancipation may bring some business opportunities for Delvey.
As Page Six has previously reported, Delvey — who became know for her haute courtroom style during her trial — has been using her célébrité to make moves in the fashion biz.
She’s launched a “pop-up agency,” the OutLaw Agency, with fashion industry legend Kelly Cutrone, hosted a Fashion Week show for designer Shao Yang of Shao New York, and used one of her immigration court appearances to promote Yang’s work by wearing a custom outfit before the judge.
Delvey told us Friday, “I would like to thank the United States government court system and especially my lawyers John Sandweg and Catherine Hunstad they for fighting for my First Amendment rights. I’m also grateful and thrilled to be able to control my own narrative once again on social media.”
