ICE said Tuesday that Anna Sorokin, the fake German heiress in Netflix’s “Inventing Anna,” is still in their custody.
According to a class-action lawsuit she filed with several other immigration detainees earlier this month, Sorokin, 31, has been in ICE custody at the Orange County Correctional Facility in upstate New York since June 7 of last year.
ICE spokesman Emilio Dabul told CNN Tuesday that “She remains in ICE custody pending removal.”
Her Attorney Manny Arora told NBC News on Monday that he hadn’t been able to reach Sorokin and was “working under the presumption that she is being deported.”
According to Arora, lawyers were given a month to appeal the deportation order signed on February 17.
“Legally, they should not be able to deport her until the 19th. … But we are dealing with bureaucracy, and there are numerous filings in her case, so you just never know if there was a paperwork error,” Arora said.
After spending nearly four years in prison on theft and robbery charges, Sorokin was released in February 2021.
It wasn’t long before she was back in prison. On March 25, 2021, ICE took Sorokin into custody.
Sorokin has been battling her deportation and has just joined a class-action lawsuit against the agency, alleging they were denied Covid booster shots while in custody.
