♪ start my hustle at the crack of dawn ♪ >> it's pretty clear with everybody you dealt with there was no money. you're no german heiress. >> it's a story novels are made of. >> a globe at astroing life of glitz and glamour for one women living as an heiress. >> she woke up one morning, decided to be somebody else. >> somebody must have started the idea she was an heiress, and who would have decided that except for anna? >> it was the kardashian lifestyle. >> the wannabe socialite becomes a tabloid sensation. >> i wish i had never met her. >> rachel fell hook, line, and

sinker for the narrative she was in line to inherit tens of millions of dollars. >> she owed me more money than i made in a year. >> this was really high drama, seeing these two women coming face-to-face together in a courtroom. ♪ >> many people see you as the ultimate scammer. are you scamming us? >> do you feel scammed? ♪ pay me my money ♪ ♪ it was very cold. and it was snowing when we drove up to the prison. >> february 11th, you walked out of prison a free woman. >> hi, anna. >> what did that feel like? >> it felt great.

it's exciting to be out, and i'm really happy. >> what was the first thing you did? >> they brought me my phone, so i got on social media. >> she immediately goes back to both instagram and twitter. >> we drove with her, like, seven hours to new york. her intent was to go back to her life. >> she called herself anna delvey, who prosecutors say was petending to be a high-flying german heiress, living a fairytale life among manhattan's elite. >> let me just have you say, pronounce and spell your name please. >> my name is anna delvy. a-n-n-a d-e-l-v-e-y. >> how would you describe the real anna delvey? who is she? >> oh, that's such a loaded question. >> the wannabe socialite is actually on trial for swindling hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> prosecutors say the 28-year-old stole $275,000 from

banks, hotels, and friends. >> a german conartist has been sentenced to a minimum of four years in prison. >> this is a story about a woman who pretended to be someone that she's not. >> she woke up one morning, she decided to be somebody else, and she actually became that person. >> anna is a tricky woman to describe. she is like no one i've ever met before. she is the slipperiest of slippery fish, i would say. >> anna's story is a story that actually novels are made of. you envision a story like this, but this is not really a real-life scenario. >> anna was in her early 20s when she showed up in nyc from paris in 2013. she was from a middle class background and had no job, but once she was here through deception and assumptions people very quickly got the idea she was wealthy. >> she was really taking people for an absolute ride. she didn't do an honest day's

work in her life. the way she was living, dishing out $100 tips, living out of hotels, she was certainly living like she had that sort of money. >> she would tip the cab driver $100 in cash, and make sure everybody saw it. >> she was living at these high end hotels. how she supported that? i have no -- idea. she just didn't give a -- and at the end of the day that is what this is all about. >> if i do it, no one will care. no one will arrest me. >> i don't think anyone could place anna's accent. you weren't really sure where anna was from, but she was from somewhere else. >> very active on instagram and twitter. she would take pictures on planes or at a nice dinner. her instagram account actually helped build her image. >> i think for her it was more like you fake it until you make it. >> the impression is that you're kind of like sliding through life, you don't have to sign for anything, and people just kind of let you do what you want. >> i guess, yes. >> so if you're creating the

illusion that you have a certain amount of money, even though you don't, did you see that as a problem? >> not at the time. >> but it would soon become a big problem. a criminalat the trouble began when anna set her sights on this historic building in midtown manhattan. as outrageous as it sounds, this young unemployed newcomer with no business experience, believed she could fake her way into getting the millions of dollars necessary to turn it into her dream come true. >> so, her plan was kind of like a members only club, a very high-end members only club. arts, fashion, entertainment, music, restaurants, everything in one place. >> the name of this was the anna delvey foundation, the adf. >> anna needed money for her business venture, and she thinks that money is out there, you just have to find a way to get it. she was meeting with big important leaders of industry.

it was going to cost about $40 million to build, and anna had about $4. >> how did they treat you, this young 20-something with these grand ideas for a project? >> i felt they were encouraging me. it kind of helps for them to think, like, that i have more money than them. >> at some point somebody must have started the idea that she was an heiress, and who would have started that besides anna? >> did you tell people you were an heiress? >> absolutely not. >> a lot of times, people may be rich and have a personal wealth, but of course, if they have a business venture, they don't want to use their own personal money for it, so they go to a bank and they want to have a business loan. >> anna went to the most premiere investment banks in new york without a dollar to her name. the bankers were seduced by the glitz and glam. she came up in there stuntin'. she came in there with the right clothes and they were like, i love it. let's do it. >> there was something about

anna. she knew which people she needed to make feel important. and she also had this sort of aura about her where she's intriguing, and she used that. >> how did you meet anna dlvey? >> i met her out one night in new york. i was out with friends, and she just joined us late that evening. >> do you regret you met her? >> absolutely. i certainly wish i had never met her. >> rachel deloache williams was a picture editor at “vanity fair” magazine. what were your first impressions? >> she was slightly offbeat. she was quirky. her voice was high pitched. she had a hard to place accent, and there was something about her. you kind of just wanted to watch because you couldn't put your finger on it. >> they were both young, they were both in their 20s, they both recently moved to new york, and they wanted to be in circles that they didn't really belong to. >> i liked her, and so we had a lot of fun together.

>> she was just a nice girl, and i thought she was sweet and she was interesting at the time to me. >> so these two formed a friendship. and anna portrayed herself as having a lot of money and living a very lavish lifestyle. and rachel was into that. >> you would pay for things mostly when you two went out. why? >> well, she gave me an impression that she only made, whatever, $60,000 or $70,000 a year. it's not a big deal for me to, like, pick up a tab which is a couple hundred dollars. i felt it was a nice thing to do. >> she and i spent some time going to dinners and hanging out. during that time i learned she was working on an art foundation. club, restaurant, just everything. and the concept was really interesting and impressive and she referred to this trust she had, which i didn't pry about -- but it informed my understanding of her. >> so it was pretty casual but you figured she had money? >> yes.

>> rachel fell hook, line, and sinker for the narrative that she was in line to inherit tens of millions of dollars. >> she would later on say she just assumed you were a socialite. >> i would never say like “hey, i'm anna. i'm a socialite.” like who says that? >> rachel didn't know that her life was about to change. she trusted anna and she truly believed she was rich. >> people have asked, were there red flags? i never questioned that she was who she said she was. i never had reason to, and i wouldn't have thought that way. >> but she would soon learn that not everything was what it seemed. i mean, not even anna's last name. delvey? she made that up. her real name was sorokin. where does the the name delvey come from? >> i just came up with it. >> you just made it up? >> yes. >> it's not a family name? >> no. >> you just liked that better than sorokin? >> yes. >> whether you're talking about anna sorokin or anna delvey, she does not like to follow the rules. >> this is the first time you've sat down for a television interview. >> yeah. >> why are you talking with us? >> why not? i would like to show the world that i'm not this dumb greedy

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every three months in order to reset the visa. and instead of going back home to germany, she suggested we take a trip somewhere warm. >> they just somehow had the idea to go to morocco, seemed to be a nice destination. >> cheers. >> me and rachel, like, kind of brainstormed where we should stay. we came up with la mamounia in marrakesh. >> and they also brought along a film guy. >> she said that she wanted to make a documentary while we were there about her arts foundation and its creation, and she sort of framed it within this business expense. >> cheers. >> anna d. >> anna d. >> anna was thinking ahead i want to get money for my art foundation. if i film me, myself, being in morocco, if i can afford this

i must have money. >> this is some stunning top of the line, like, dripping in gold resort with butlers and private everything. it's a resort that's built for the one percent. >> khloe kardashian has stayed there once upon a time. quite a few decades before that, winston churchill would regularly stay there. you know, this is where the great and the uber-wealthy have hung out for decades. >> your eyes must have been popping out of your head. >> oh, absolutely. it was, um -- i mean it was amazing until it wasn't. >> anna, right from the get-go said that she's paying. >> why are you treating everybody? a $7,000 a night room. >> well, i had the money i guess at the time when i booked it, and i guess they gave me an impression that they pre-authorized my card or something like that. >> so the trip is going along, they're living it up. i'm not sure why anna had issues paying, but for whatever reason, her credit cards were not working. >> anna claims that her credit cards aren't going through

because she hasn't given the banks the heads up that she's going to be in a foreign country, so her banks have blocked it, which is just the type of thing that would happen, and it seems a kind of credible reason. >> so the hotel isn't getting any payment, and the bill is getting astronomical. >> so now you have a tab of $60,000 plus? >> yes. >> so they came, and they said, listen, what's going on? time to pay. >> well, of course there is a scene at this hotel. >> two of the hotel workers, were not going to let these women move until they had a working credit card. >> there was just this insane pressure and tension in the room, and i was very aware of us being young women in a foreign country. i just didn't know what to do. >> it's like, oh, my god, you know, nobody wants to go to jail, and i guess especially not in morocco. >> and the men said, do you have

a credit card? and she's like, can we just use it for now? >> anna wasn't thinking much. she was like, "well the money is gonna come, and of course i'm gonna pay rachel back." for rachel however, it was just really a very scary situation. >> she hands over her personal card, and she also hands over her corporate card. it makes me feel nauseous. how terrifying that must be. you know, your job is now on the line. >> rachel just footed the bill for both of them is what really happened. and this was a fissure in their friendship for sure. >> she owed me more money than i made in a year. >> she's reaching out to you to pay her back, do you know that she is beside herself with worry about the card? >> yeah, she she was telling me that every day, all day. >> you're texting anna, no reimbursement. what are you thinking? >> i'm thinking this is a rich girl who has never had to deal with monthly bills, who just doesn't understand what an

urgent situation. i'm late with my rent, i'm late with my credit card payments every night i'm awake in bed thinking, oh, this is serious. i'm in a lot of trouble. >> at this point you don't have the money to pay rachel? >> no. >> how was she responding? >> she had a billion and one excuses. i was suspicious at that point. >> anna paid rachel $5,000 through paypal, but that caused problems. she was wasn't allowed access to other funds. anna relied on her credit card to pay things. so she wasn't able to fulfill other obligations like her hotel bill. >> july 2017, she is arrested for the first time and it's for theft of services and it relates to three things in new york -- unpaid bills at the beekman, at the w hotel, and at le parker meridien. >> the day i met her, she had one open misdemeanor criminal case. i come to find out that there's a number of criminal investigations and active cases against anna for unpaid bills.

hotels, restaurants, other things of that nature. >> it's her first arrest, and everything really starts to kind of unravel. >> and that's when the story hits "the new york post." the wannabe socialite becomes a tabloid situation. >> you're beginning to make the press. there are newspaper headlines. what did you make of that? >> i guess it was just what people like to hear. they just looked at my instagram and this is what they -- like, reality that they created. >> you eventually go to the district attorney's office, and what do you learn? >> i learn that there is an ongoing investigation into anna delvey, whose real name is anna sorokin. >> but of course, anna, she doesn't want to stop living the life just yet. >> after her arraignment, she ditches and she goes to california. >> the district attorney is trying to track her down and you want to be helpful in this. >> yes. if she did this to me and i was her friend, she would do it to anybody, and i just wanted to

protect other people. >> and rachel set her up. >> suddenly the gullible fool is no longer so foolish. so, they're messaging back and forth, but every single time that anna messages rachel, rachel is screenshotting it and sending it straight to the d.a. >> she was in touch with me, like, for about a week. just asking me how i was doing and, like, just pretending, like, nothing was off. >> she had asked if we could get together, so i asked her if she could meet me at a restaurant in los angeles and we set a time. >> that's where actually anna was headed to when she was arrested. >> so you're arrested again? >> yes. >> what did you think? what did you feel? >> i was surprised. >> i was so afraid. i was afraid she'd find out that it was me. >> rachel sends a message to anna saying, "i'm at the restaurant. where are you?

is everything okay?" because she didn't want anna at that point to know that, that she had played her, but she did, she played it like an absolute fiddle. >> at this moment, it's pretty clear to everybody you've dealt with that there is no money, that you're no german heiress. were you living a lie? >> i don't feel i was, no. ♪ i can't believe it ♪ ♪ i can't believe it ♪ >> if anna wasn't living a lie, what was she living? the prosecution has quite the case to make to a jury to try to prove just how fake this would be heiress actually was. ♪ just watch me fake it, fake it ♪

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masquerading as an heiress. >> can young woman who duped people out of thousands of dollars. >> falsified bank records, forged her identity. >> pretending to a high-flying heiress. >> this lavish lifestyle that anna had been living all comes crashing down when they bringer back to new york. her lodgings are rikers correctional facility. >> you were take ton rikers island, one of the most frightening jails in the country. what was that like for you? were you terrified? >> actually, i had no idea about rikers. i was really upset at the time. i just learned to deal with it. >> the nature of her crimes meant -- was easy for the judge not to grant bail. >> you were there 19 months.

>> yes. >> did you feel that you were in danger, ever? >> not physically, no. i'm lucky i never met anyone who was >> while at rikers island, anna survived unscathed. again, i've said this before, anna is very charismatic and charming. >> did you have celebrity status in the jail? >> i definitely did, yes. >> and then you strike a netflix deal. >> sorokin's case even capturing hollywood's attention. "grey anatomy's" creator shonda rhimes, behind an upcoming project for netflix. >> she was offered over $300,000 for the deal. >> so you're essentially making money off of this. i mean, was it kind of a joke to you? >> no, not really. i mean, it all kind of happened. even if i were to get like $100 million from netflix, my life in jail would not have changed. >> you were still behind bars. >> absolutely. definitely. >> anna was offered a plea bargain of three to nine years to resolve all of the criminal liability, and she ultimately rejected it and said, i'd rather

go to trial. i'd rather roll the dice. let's go. >> i wanted to go to trial. just, like, i felt like it was the only way to tell my story. >> most people go to trial to be found not guilty. she went to trial for the story. >> now facing charges of grand larceny and theft, she could spend up to 15 years in prison if convicted. >> she knew that the world's media were focusing the spotlight on her, and there was no way she was going to look bad at trial. >> sorokin always looking glamorous on her social media pages. her defense team even hiring a stylist to help her prepare for court appearances. >> she was wearing victoria beckham and micheal kors. the choker became such a look. there was so much media attention on what she was looking like. >> i felt like i knew my trial was going to last for a while, and you don't really get any clothes. >> but anna, what defendant has clothes brought in by a stylist? >> i didn't have anything at the time to compare myself to other defendants, so i just kind of did what me sense the t

how focused she is on vanity and narcissism and putting on a show. >> the prosecution, of course, told the jury that anna was living a double life and used her lies to cheat banks and even her personal friend, rachel, out of a lot of money. >> prosecutors said that your story was lie after lie after lie. that's what they told the jury. >> i mean, of course they would say something like this. that's their job to accuse me of crimes. >> remember anna was supposed to be opening this arts foundation. she went to banks and told them she had money overseas. >> what were you expected to provide as proof that you have these millions and millions of dollars overseas? >> like, a bank statement, a letter of credit from the bank. >> so anna was definitely really starting to spin the lies at this point, and stepping up her con a level. she was creating faked documents to try and persuade bankers that

she was worth around 60 million euros. >> so anna was charged with certain crimes that had evidence that we couldn't dispute. the fake documents were the fake documents. we were stuck with them. there's nothing we could do about it. these documents were very realistic. i would have fallen for it, and obviously the bankers did, too. >> anna never testified in court, and during our interview her lawyers wouldn't let her answer many of my questions about those dealings with the banks. >> the impression that they get from documents is that you have a lot of money in accounts. was that by design? >> um -- yes. >> so you wanted them to think that you had a lot of money to put up? >> the first one is fine. don't answer the second. >> did you have that amount of money in overseas accounts? >> i can't answer that. >> how do you come up with bank statements? >> i can't answer that. >> how were you able to falsify documents? >> my lawyer would not allow me to answer that. >> from my review of the

evidence, there is really no direct link between her and the documents. so that's why i did not want her to answer. >> the banks never gave anna the loans, but she did get a line of credit, and prosecutors say she used that money and bad checks in order to fund her lavish lifestyle. >> when you look at the evidence that the prosecution presented, it looks like this was a scam. >> but there are different ways to tell a story. >> the other way to tell the story is that anna had every intention of doing things the right way. but she couldn't open certain doors without doing something a little bit gray to open that door. everyone creates the version of themselves that they want the world to see. everyone is lying a little bit. everyone lies when it's convenient to them, some more than others, but we all do it. and anna did the same thing. she couldn't be 100% honest because no one would listen to her. >> your lawyer at the time said

that you did nothing wrong, that you exploited a system easily seduced by glitz and glamour. that you told little white lies. is that what happened? >> yes, that's how i see it, too. >> anna is accused, essentially, of misleading people to think that she had more money than she has. isn't that what all of us do everyday when we use our credit card to buy something we can't afford? where's the crime? >> i never had a fraudulent intent, and i guess that's what should really count. >> when did you begin to realize you could not afford your life and pay people back? >> i always knew that, and i was just trying to fix that. >> but the one thing anna couldn't fix was the actual truth behind her identity. who was this heiress and where did she come from? surely not from wealth. got directv stream. now we can watch live tv and on demand. serena... scary movie... serena... scary movie... serena williams ready to serve. ahh!

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that's what the d.a. -- actually, it was intentional to have rachel as the poster child of this trial to make it more human. >> this was really high drama. seeing these two women, former friends, coming face-to-face together in a courtroom. >> you had not seen anna for a long time. what was it like when you walked in that courtroom to testify? >> it was really hard. i didn't look at her until i was on the stand and was asked to identify the defendant. and then when i did look her at her, she was smirking at me. i had a friend who turned out to be not at all who she said she was. >> if she wasn't born an heiress, then who exactly was she? the woman who claimed to be anna delvey was actually born anna sorokin. far from the skyscrapers of manhattan in a small town in russia. >> you were born in russia? >> yes.

>> what was your childhood like? were you happy? >> yes. i grew up as a single child until my parents had another kid when i was almost 13, so i kind of see myself as a single child because i grew up by myself. >> how did you wind up in germany as a family? >> well, my dad always worked in germany, so we just moved with him at some point. >> anna lived in germany in eschweiler, which is, as anna would say, more like upstate new york. to her, it was very boring. >> what did your parents do? >> my dad, he is like in infrared heating, solar energy business right now. >> and your mom? >> my mom, she's working with him. >> hardworking people. good people, but certainly not rolling in dough. >> she clearly felt that she was above it and was a woman who dreamed far bigger than her horizons. ♪ >> those dreams would eventually lead to paris.

following her lifelong interest in fashion, she eventually got a position at a glossy magazine called "purple," and anna sorokin morphed into anna delvey. >> i interned at "purple" for almost two years, which was a great learning experience. i always thought i'd be working for "vogue" or something like this. >> we all watched "the devil wears prada." so i can imagine her job was similar to that. >> that's all. >> if you work for a magazine like that, you meet everyone. kind of like in the fashion world, that's what she did. anna created this name, anna delvey, which is for her an alter ego. just another personality that she could present to the outside world. >> were you trying to escape something? >> i think it was about a new

beginning and doing something new as opposed to, like, escaping anything. >> escape or no escape, next thing you know, anna crosses the ocean. she jumps into new york, becomes anna delvey, this larger-than-life persona. >> and that's when she began telling everybody about the idea for that arts center, the anna delvey foundation. she had to come up with money to make it happen. everything after that leads back to that courtroom in lower manhattan and rachel taking the stand in an emotional moment telling about that trip to morocco. >> she claimed to be worth about $60 million, convinced these people she was the daughter of a diplomat. >> stealing more than 200 grand and attempting to steal millions more through elaborate scams. >> what was that like for you

as you watched her, your friend, testifying against you? >> i knew she didn't really want to be there and they made her do it. she literally did not glance at me once except to identify the defendant. >> rachel gets on the stand and bursts into sobs and says, this is the worst thing that ever happened to me in my life. >> she said, what was i supposed to do? i didn't want to sit in jail, and be in morocco for months or even years. i believe rachel that it was the most traumatic moment in her life. >> i understand the word trauma is relative. to have someone that i had put so much goodwill into turn out to just be like a liar and who had willfully hurt me was very painful. >> how are you gonna get on the witness stand and say, "this is the worst thing that ever happened?" the woman sold her story across the board. she literally was like, what's up? i got to story. who wants it? >> there are some people who would say you benefitted from her greed. they don't see you as a victim. >> i understand that, but this

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this morning, the fate of an alleged scam artist is now in the hands of a jury. >> what are you feeling as the jury is deliberating? >> i felt it was, like, a great indicator that it took almost three days to decide. so it means, like, it's not something, oh, yeah, she's full of [ bleep ]. we're going to find her guilty. so i guess it just, like, speaks

volumes as, like, how i came across. >> we hoped for the best, but planned for the worst. >> a new york city jury finding socialite, anna sorokin, the so-called soho grifter, guilty on eight counts including grand larceny, attempted grand larceny, and theft of services. >> when you hear "guilty," what do you think? >> i mean, you just deal with the consequences. what, am i supposed to collapse and cry? i don't know. >> i would. >> there are like 100 cameras in my face, so i don't know. >> ultimately, it was a mixed verdict. some counts they convicted her on, and two counts they acquitted her on. >> sorokin was acquitted of two charges, including the most serious, attempting to steal more than $1 million from a bank. still she faces deportation and up to 15 years in prison. >> were you crushed? >> i was upset. i guess i felt, like, a bit misunderstood. but i felt like rachel was a good victory. >> despite rachel's emotional testimony, the jury did not find anna guilty for the alleged theft, that $62,000 bill at the

hotel in morocco. >> i think the jury would have liked to care about rachel. if she had gone on the stand and said, look, like, i got caught up. i had no business going on a trip i couldn't pay for myself. this sounded like a lot of fun, and it turned into a nightmare. i think that she could have brought the jury along with her on that, but there was none of that. >> some of the jurors didn't feel sympathetic for your situation with anna. how did that feel for you? >> oh, that was -- that was devastating. it was devastating to have taken the witness stand and to have felt so exposed and to have shared so publicly something that was so deeply personal and painful for me was extremely hard. and then to have that come out as the takeaway was extremely upsetting. >> the fake heiress sentenced here in new york city today. anna sorokin in tears learning she will spend up to 12 years in prison. >> her ultimate sentence was 4 to 12 years state prison. >> in addition to her prison sentence, anna's order to pay

$200,000 in restitution and an additional $24,000 in fees, but interestingly anna is not ordered to pay back rachel's $62,000 credit card bill. >> did you have to pay that money? >> ultimately, thank goodness, american express did protect me from the hotel charge, which was the bulk of the expenses. >> do you think that her sentence was just? >> i am relieved. i think it's appropriate she's doing time for having committed crimes, but i do think that she will continue to manipulate other people for the rest of her life. >> even in prison? >> absolutely in prison, yes. i think that she has a problem with authority. and i don't -- i don't suspect that will change in prison or in the future. >> after the guilty verdict, you are sent to albion correctional facility. >> i actually got on a phone with my lawyer and ask him, can i go back to rikers? >> you wanted to go back to rikers? why?

>> because i felt like the beginning is, like, always the hardest, completely new set of people and new inmates. >> anna's story becomes bigger after her incarceration than she ever was before. >> and remember that netflix deal of more than $300,000? well it runs out that new york state law won't let anna profit from her crimes, so that money first has to be used to pay back her victims. >> once the victims were paid, anna would receive the balance. >> on february 11th, after spending just under four years of her 4 to 12-year sentence in prison, anna is released early for good behavior. ♪ i'm the type of girl that goes above and beyond ♪ >> she goes straight to a posh hotel in new york city. >> anna was intent to continue with her anna delvey persona. after her release she was told that she could actually stay in america at least for six weeks.

there was a date at the end of march where she needed to talk to an immigration officer. >> i said to her, lay low. get off of parole. sort out your immigration affairs, and then you'll have plenty of time to build whatever you want to build. but lo and behold, anna is not one to heed my advice, and she decided to do what she wanted to do. >> you're just a few weeks out of prison, but yet you're still active on social media. >> yes. >> she was giving interviews on social media, really living the high life. pictures on instagram of drinking champagne in a footed tub, and you know, the whole gamut. >> sins are forgiven. [ laughter ] >> anna even goes so far as to call herself a professional defendant. this doesn't look like a woman who has been through prison and who has learned something from prison. you're casually, happily back on social media. >> i mean, this is just, like,

my life, so i'm just trying to channel this attention into something good. >> but anna, you have people following you on social media who say things like, "queen," and, "i'm so pleased for you." i mean, it almost seems like this is just sort of a game to you. >> i mean, i cannot be responsible for what people say. >> this of course was not looking like she was actually remorseful and felt sorry. >> well, she ended up in trouble. some of her media posts were sarcastic and, like basically she didn't learn her lesson, you know, she's not remorseful, you know, and when she actually showed up to her appointment at immigration, they apprehended her. >> i just think how stupid can you be, that you were that indiscrete? she didn't think of the consequences. >> i believe that she will be deported. >> anna does not want to go back to europe. >> an that will fight being deported to germany tooth and nail.

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that level of disconnect allows her to operate without feeling too much, ever. >> who is the real anna delvey? >> i guess it remains to be seen. i'm just trying to, like, rewrite my story. >> the next step is to keep fighting. she's resilient, and she's determined. >> i would say that anna delvey is not done. anna delvey is not going to be deported. anna delvey is going to reinvent herself as someone she chooses to be on her terms and we're going to continue to help her until she says no more. >> new york is the ultimate comeback place, but she would have to show real contrition to persuade people to take her seriously. and she's going to have to do that wherever she goes, but i

think maybe she has more of a shot at it at it at the city that she didn't dupe. >> i'd love to say the lesson in this story is you can't just lie and get away with it. anna went to prison. anna paid some restitution, but i think this story is as old as time. that's part of what draws us to it. we want to believe that justice will be served, we want to believe that it will deter anybody else from coming along, but there's always another anna waiting in the rafters. >> many people see you as the ultimate scammer. are you scamming us? >> no. you tell me, do you feel scammed? [ laughs ] do you feel scammed in? >> so what about it? do you feel scammed? >> that is a very good question a lot of people are going to be asking after debra's report tonight. if and when she's released from jail, she could stay in the u.s. and fight deportation.

>> or could immediately be deported back to germany. only time will tell. >> i'm david muir from all of us here at "20/20" and abc news, good night.

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