Pretend German heiress Anna Sorokin has filed go well with in opposition to her former lawyer, asking a decide to carry her in contempt for allegedly withholding recordings of her deportation hearings and a few of her private belongings, new court docket papers present.
The 31-year-old “Soho Grifter” — who was the topic of Netflix present “Inventing Anna” — says lawyer Audrey Thomas is violating a July 27 court docket order that she switch all court docket information to Sorokin’s new lawyer by Aug. 5, in line with her Manhattan Supreme Court docket lawsuit from Friday.
Whereas Thomas despatched two batches of paperwork on Aug. 8 and 9 to Sorokin’s new lawyer, she allegedly hasn’t turned over “any of the digital audio recordings of [Sorokin’s] Immigration Court docket hearings. Nor did the packages include any of [Sorokin’s] private belongings,” the go well with claims.
Regardless of requests for the alleged lacking data, Thomas claims she offered all of the paperwork she has.
Sorokin says Thomas has a vendetta in opposition to her for having referred to as her an “ungrateful b—h” within the media.
“Thus, it's clear that [Thomas] continues to be intentionally withholding objects from [Sorokin’s] case file,” the submitting claims.
Thomas “has not complied with the phrases of that order, and for that motive [Sorokin] institutes this particular continuing to punish [Thomas] for contempt of court docket,” the go well with claims.
Sorokin additionally desires the decide to drive Thomas to show over the audio recordings and her private belongings, the court docket papers says.
Sorokin has beforehand made comparable accusations in opposition to Thomas in her legal case however the decide instructed her to file a separate lawsuit with a purpose to pursue a contempt order in opposition to Thomas, the court docket papers say.
Thomas advised The Put up if Sorokin’s civil legal professional “would make investments his time in getting the paperwork from Immigration … he would have secured them months in the past.”
“However that is all part of his plan responsible me for his failure,” Thomas stated.
Sorokin — who went underneath the alter ego Anna Delvey with a 60 million euro fortune — served 4 years in jail after she was convicted of scamming $200,000 from banks and companies.
After Sorokin was freed in February 2021, she surrendered to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March 2021 for allegedly overstaying her visa along with having a felony conviction on her file.
She is at the moment being held in an Orange County, New York, lockup as she appeals deportation.
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