Anna Sorokin—higher recognized in some circles because the would-be artwork basis doyenne Anna Delvey—can be a contestant on the following season of Dancing with the Stars.
The art-world fraudster beforehand tried to recruit traders to create an unique social membership and exhibition area in New York Metropolis, earlier than all the scheme unravelled and he or she was discovered responsible of grand larceny and theft (all the saga was the topic of the hit Netflix sequence Inventing Anna). For her subsequent act, Sorokin can 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 on account of a regulation in New York stopping criminals from cashing in on their infamy. Final yr, whereas nonetheless underneath 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 property. 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 hundreds 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 serious monetary windfall. The beginning wage for celeb contributors on Dancing with the Stars is reportedly $125,000, with numerous bonuses and prizes for advancing within the competitors from one week to the following, in response to Selection.
