In maybe essentially the most fever-dream improvement of 2023, a pretend heiress below home arrest has contributed her vocals from a jail name to a single launched with a TikTok star, and which can function a podcast theme tune.
Anna Sorokin, the convicted German-Russian whose scheme to go herself off as a German heiress impressed Netflix collection, <em>Inventing Anna</em>, options on new single What the Hell? from TikTok star and nation singer Brooke Butler, in response to Deadline.
The single dropped on Friday and can function the intro and theme tune to Ms Sorokin’s new podcast The <em>Anna Delvey</em> Show, from AudioUp and Reunion Audio – which she might be producing whereas nonetheless below home arrest in New York.
“My name is Anna Delvey,” she says on the only.
The 32-year-old was convicted of larceny and fraud in 2019 after swindling New York socialites, buddies, accommodations and banks out of $275,000. She served three years in jail, about half at Rikers Island. After ending her sentence she was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and posted a $10,000 bond final 12 months pending a deportation listening to.
She was portrayed by Ozarks star Julia Garner within the 2022 nine-part collection, which adopted an explosive 2018 expose in New York Magazine, additionally titled Inventing Anna – firmly establishing Ms Sorokin in popular culture.
Her new weekly podcast will supply her an opportunity to inform her facet of the story in addition to interview some well-known – and notorious – names, she lately informed The Associated Press from the East Village residence the place she’s below home arrest. The podcast might be recorded from the identical location, although she’d hoped to pursue the challenge even whereas behind bars, she mentioned.
“I wanted to start recording in jail, actually over the jail phone because, you know, there are some rappers who record whole albums while being incarcerated. I was like, ‘Why not record a podcast?’” Ms Sorokin informed AP. The podcast firm mentioned this plan was too “logistically difficult to implement.”
What the Hell?, a tune from TikTok star and nation singer Brooke Butler, options vocals from Anna Sorokin, 32
Guests will embody Emily Ratajkowski, Julia Fox, “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli and Ottessa Moshfegh on upcoming episodes, Reunion Audio informed AP.
Ms Sorokin bragged that her notoriety was an asset – that she “can get pretty much anybody up here”.
More troublesome can be her fellow in infamy Elizabeth Holmes, the founding father of the as soon as billion-dollar tech firm, Theranos, who lately started a jail sentence for wire fraud and conspiracy.
“I’d love to speak to Elizabeth,” she informed AP. “I definitely think she’s an interesting person. I can relate a little bit more … we’re both females and have been trying to build something.”
She known as her personal jail time “transformative.”
“It’s been five years, a bit more than five years since I got arrested,” she mentioned. “So, I just like – I changed. I learned to much.”
Sorokin was convicted of larceny and fraud in 2019 after swindling New York socialites, buddies, accommodations and banks out of $275,000
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She mentioned the primary theme of her podcast can be “productive rule-breaking.”
“So many people become famous for bad things and were able to kind of segue it into something different,” she mentioned.
Her segue, nevertheless, is not going to be a bodily one for the time being.
“I’m on 24/7 house arrest,” she mentioned, sporting an ankle monitor. “I’m only allowed to leave for my parole check-ins, my ICE check-ins and for medical emergencies.”
In the meantime, the podcast – and new tune – will supply folks the prospect to listen to Ms Sorokin’s personal voice.
It was written by Audio Up CEO and producer Jared Gutstadt, who has labored with Lil Wayne, Jelly Roll, DJ Khaled and Machine Gun Kelly, alongside his longtime writing associate Scarlett Burke, Deadline reported.
“What the Hell? is authentic to the type of music I like to make,” Mr Gustadt informed the outlet. “It’s a fun song and I know a lot of folks will be curious to hear this side of Anna. My hope is that the TikTok world will have some fun with this as well.”