She walked into my life in Gucci sandals and Céline glasses Rachel DeLoache Vanity Fair followed up with an account of how the woman invited a friend on a lavish Marrakech holiday, then left her to foot the bill. The name Anna Delvey first became public a year ago, in a New York magazine story titled How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People. The story of Anna Sorokin, or Anna Delvey, as she presented herself to the highest echelons of the art world, is about a young woman accused of using a sheen of sophistication to perpetrate a two-year, $275,000 scam of friends, banks, private jet companies, designers and upscale hotels. The obsession with presentation is oddly appropriate. ( GQ reported she had hired a stylist.) For much of the last week, Sorokin’s wardrobe has been informing hearings that have given New York light entertainment between the El Chapo case and the start in June of the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault trial.Īnna Sorokin in New York state supreme court on 27 March. It wasn’t the Miu Miu she wore on Tuesday, or Thursday’s Saint Laurent. She was wearing a white shirt and black trousers. An hour later, the defendant was brought in. Kiesel directed court officers to give Sorokin coffee or water and ordered a break. She’s not being treated well by other inmates and some officers …” It was true, he said, that the 28-year-old dubbed the “socialite scammer” by the New York tabloids “didn’t want appear in Rikers clothes and her clothes were dirty and not pressed”.īut, he said, it was “an aggregate of things, not just her clothes. ![]() ![]() Are you asking me to stop this trial because of her wardrobe?” I’m sorry, her clothing is not up to her standards. ![]() Her self-obsessed ways are in direct conflict with what a socialite is supposed to be.“This is a trial,” Kiesel told Sorokin’s lawyer, Todd Spodek. “America’s idea of a socialite is Paris Hilton. But other society blogs derided her as a self-promoter. Almost immediately, publicists began offering her free shoes, dresses and jewelry, said Rose. Rose was labeled a socialite by blogs such as “The Quest for ‘it”’ when she began serving on the boards of charities two years ago. “Because it’s not exclusive anymore, nobody wants to be a socialite.” “Anyone who’s not a celebrity, who’s being photographed going out, becomes a socialite,” Rose told Reuters. “And, you know, they’re not.”įor Devorah Rose, editor-in-chief of Social Life magazine, being known as a socialite is a mixed blessing. “These girls who want to be called handbag designers, they’re basically expressing their sense that they’re not taken seriously because they’re called socialites,” said Columbia. Patricia Duff is a political fund-raiser, Fabiola Beracasa a jewelry executive.ĭavid Patrick Columbia, the editor of the New York Social Diary website, calls Mortimer the “successor” to Paris Hilton. Most high-profile socialites - men are almost never called socialites - now have an alternative title. The word socialite “smacks of unseriousness,” he said. “They would rather be known as handbag designers or dress designers or social activists,” said Lloyd Grove, a gossip columnist for New York Daily News until 2006. Indeed, in many cases professional socialites are calling themselves by other names almost as a ruse, according to social commentators. Mortimer is “lifestyle director” for a Manhattan condo development, designer for the Japanese label Samantha Thavasa, and Christian Dior’s “U.S. Mortimer, along with many women who attend charity functions in the high-society circles of Manhattan, has aggressively marketed herself in other roles - even as she keeps up an almost frenetic social schedule. But these days few socialites apply that moniker to themselves: many feel the once-glamorous tag has been spoiled by the antics of Paris Hilton and others. To most people, she is the epitome of a socialite. Tinsley Mortimer prepares backstage before the Heatherette show at the Spring 2007 Fashion Week in New York City September 12, 2006.
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