‘Heiress’ is really a con artist: DA

A German woman known as a high-living heiress was really a con artist who scammed her upper-crust friends, banks and credit card companies, prosecutors said at the start of her trial Wednesday.

Anna Sorokin, 28, who also goes by Anna Delvey, is on trial in Manhattan Supreme Court for stealing about $275,000 through loans she didn’t pay back and unpaid bills in 2016 and 2017, according to court papers.

“You are going to learn how throughout all of New York County, the defendant was actually able to live the fantasy of an extravagant lifestyle beyond her means,” Assistant District Attorney Kaegan Mays-Williams told jurors in her opening statement.

While “most of us have to work for a living,” Sorokin was dining at top restaurants and staying at the “most luxurious hotels” without any income.

“She stole from banks. She stole from hotels. She stole from friends. She tried to steal from a hedge fund,” the prosecutor added.

Sorokin (photo) shamelessly posed as a trust fund beneficiary who inherited $40 million to $60 million from her wealthy German family when she was actually a fraudster who fooled several members of the city’s upper class into going into business with her based on her bogus background, prosecutors say.

Her lawyer Todd Spodek said Sorokin “believed she would have the funds to pay every single person back.” He said Sorokin came to the city at 25 hoping to make it and surrounded herself with likeminded superficial people.

“In her world this is what her social circle did,” he said Wednesday morning. “Everyone’s life was perfectly curated for social media. People were fake . ... And money was made on hype alone.”

Her charges include grand larceny, attempted grand larceny and scheme to defraud. She faces up to 15 years in prison on the top count alone.