Con artist Anna Delvey, whose life story impressed the Netflix collection Inventing Anna, has signed as much as be a contestant on Dancing With The Stars, the US model of Strictly Come Dancing.
In the previous few years, Delvey – whose actual title is Anna Sorokin – has change into notorious for her crimes, pretending to be a rich socialite in New York.
This yr’s Dancing With The Stars solid additionally consists of two Staff USA Olympians, rugby participant Ilona Maher and gymnastic bronze medallist Stephen Nedoroscik, and Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Tori Spelling.
Additionally on the dancefloor shall be Oscar nominee Eric Roberts and Actual Housewives of Atlanta star Phaedra Parks.
Sorokin shall be paired on the present with skilled dancer Ezra Sosa.
The fraudster was discovered responsible in 2019 of theft of providers and grand larceny, having scammed greater than $200,000 (£145,000) from banks and luxurious inns.
She would inform folks she had a $60m (£46m) belief fund and an bold challenge to create an eponymous arts basis.
However she was, in reality, a current journal intern, who got here from an strange household of Russian immigrants dwelling in Germany.
By staying in costly inns and presenting a jet-set life on Instagram, she managed to trick others into believing her fantasy and choosing up her payments.
Her story got here to worldwide consideration in 2018 after a New York Journal function by author Jessica Pressler.
It was then tailored by Shona Rhimes, the inventive pressure behind Gray’s Anatomy, Bridgerton and Scandal, in a Netflix collection the place Sorokin was performed by Julia Garner.
Sorokin was paid $320,000 (£230,000) by Netflix for Inventing Anna – however she was not capable of maintain all of the Netflix cash, owing to a New York legislation that stops criminals from benefiting from their notoriety.
“I by no means requested for Netflix to purchase my story, it simply occurred,” Sorokin advised the BBC in 2021, following her launch from jail. “And every thing else, it simply spun out of my management.”