Anna Sorokin—higher identified in some circles because the would-be artwork basis doyenne Anna Delvey—might be a contestant on the subsequent season of Dancing with the Stars.
The art-world fraudster beforehand tried to recruit buyers to create an unique social membership and exhibition area in New York Metropolis, earlier than your entire scheme unravelled and she or he was discovered responsible of grand larceny and theft (your entire saga was the topic of the hit Netflix sequence Inventing Anna). For her subsequent act, Sorokin might be paired with the dancer Ezra Sosa and competing towards different celebrities of varied stripes together with the Beverly Hills, 90210 star Tori Spelling, the US Olympic rugby sensation Ilona Maher, the Actual Housewives of Atlanta star Phaedra Parks and others, in response to BBC Information.
Sorokin has parlayed her notoriety into numerous ventures past the Netflix sequence—for which she was paid $320,000, although she was not allowed to maintain the cash because of a regulation in New York stopping criminals from cashing in on their infamy. Final yr, whereas nonetheless below home arrest, Sorokin launched the podcast The Anna Delvey Present. In 2022, she joined the NFT (non-fungible token) gold rush, launching her personal sequence of digital belongings. Earlier the identical yr, a pop-up present of her jail drawings was staged throughout Frieze New York—its curator, Julia Morrison, subsequently claimed Sorokin owed her 1000’s of {dollars} she had put as much as organise the present. (Sorokin’s personal lawyer sued her in 2023 over round $150,000 in unpaid authorized charges.)
Sorokin’s flip as a primetime dancer will doubtless be a significant monetary windfall. The beginning wage for celeb members on Dancing with the Stars is reportedly $125,000, with numerous bonuses and prizes for advancing within the competitors from one week to the subsequent, in response to Selection.
