Glamour gone: ‘Fake’ heiress goes on trial

0 Anna Sorokin sits at the defence table in New York State Supreme Court, in New York. Russian-born Sorokin, who claimed to be a German heiress, is on trial on charges of grand larceny and theft of services. Lawyer Todd Spodek told jurors she exploited a system ‘easily seduced by glamour and glitz’.