Anna Delvey, 33, debuted a new look on Thursday as she walked the runway to court on Thursday, wearing a custom-made Shao New York outfit, which included a bedazzled ankle monitor.
Delvey, a Russian native whose real name is Anna Sorokin, is famously known for falsely posing as a German heiress to gain social status. She is currently under house arrest for overstaying her visa.
The convicted con-artist stepped out in New York City ahead of an appearance at immigration court yesterday – sporting a sparkly letter A to adorn her ankle monitor.
Ankle monitors are devices worn by some criminal defendants who are released from jail pretrial.
Along with the accessory, Delvey wore a cream-colored mini-dress and matching neck scarf, which she co-designed with the label Shao New York. She completed the look with beige heels.
The fashion brand re-posted a video taken by fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone of Delvey in her court-room outfit on their Instagram story.
This is not the first time Delvey has sported a look by the fashion brand on her way to court.
Last month, she was photographed wearing a white button-down shirt with a black bow, black pencil skirt and black pump. She also wore a black blazer with a red ‘A’ stitched on her chest, referencing Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel, ‘The Scarlet Letter’.
This comes after Delvey and Cutrone announced last year that they were joining forces to form the Outlaw Agency to help fashion designer Shao Yang to launch her label.
Delvey later hosted the brand’s first fashion show on the rooftop of her apartment building in New York, due to her house arrest.
The fraudster, who inspired Netflix’s 2022 hit series ‘Inventing Anna’, posed as a wealthy heiress to access the upper-class New York social scene from 2012 to 2017, when she was arrested in a NYPD sting operation.
During her prosecution, it was estimated that she stole around $275,000.
Throughout her trial, Delvey’s courthouse fashion made headlines, and there was even an Instagram account that documented her outfits.
She was convicted of larceny in the second degree, attempted grand larceny, and services theft and served almost four years in prison after her 2019 conviction.
She was taken back into custody by ICE six weeks after her release in 2021 for overstaying her visa. She was then released in October 2022, but has been holed up in her $4,250-a-month apartment in New York’s East Village ever since.
According to Ira Judelson, who has handled bail arrangements for high-profile criminal defendants, such as Lindsay Lohan and Lil Wayne, there is a team of people tracking your ankle bracelet and knows where you are at all times.
‘When criminal defendants get their GPS ankle bracelet, everyone feels a little violated. They feel constricted. They feel not in control. They feel like people are watching them and know where they go and what time they go there. And that’s all true. It really is a GPS-tracker, and I have a team of monitors who are watching where every bracelet is at all times,’ he told Business Insider.
In regards to how an ankle monitor might feel, he said: ‘At first when you have it on, and you’re walking around, and you feel something heavy on your ankle, it’s not a great feeling. It’s like you’re carrying a radio around on your ankle. It might be an embarrassment. And it’s also a reminder that you’re in trouble.’
Earlier this year, she launched a legal bid to quash her 24/7 confinement by claiming her ‘draconian’ house arrest serves ‘absolutely no purpose’ and ‘breaches her constitutional rights’.
Her lawyers filed a habeus corpus petition – a civil suit used to assess whether an imprisonment is lawful – claiming that Delvey suffered from ‘severe emotional distress and stress’ because of her bond conditions.