Convicted con artist Anna Sorokin releases single while under house arrest

"Fake heiress" Anna Sorokin, the convicted con artist and fraudster who fooled New York's social elite, released a country song on Friday. 

Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey, teamed up with TikTok songwriter Brooke Butler and the band Audio Chateau for the song while under house arrest in Manhattan. Titled, "What the Hell," it will be featured as the intro and theme song to Sorokin's podcast, "The Anna Delvey Show," according to Deadline.

The roughly two and a half-minute track includes vocals by Sorokin recorded from a phone call she made while imprisoned on Riker's Island. She can be heard saying, "My name is Anna Delvey." 

AudioUP CEO Jared Gutstadt co-wrote the song with Butler and country songwriter Scarlett Burke. Gutstadt told NBC News that Sorokin "curated" the song by listening to demos he sent her and decided which one would become "the brand" for her podcast. 

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"Songs are songs, I've written lots of them," Gustadt told NBC News. "But without a sort of brand where people could latch on to, you're competing with hundreds of millions of new songs coming out every year on Spotify."

He said the new track will get radio airplay, thanks to Sorokin's notoriety, which got boosted by the hit Neftlix limited series "Inventing Anna." The series dramatized her infiltration into New York society by pretending to be a wealthy heiress, chronicling how she ripped off major financial institutions, banks, hotels and individuals for a total of $275,000.

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"Typically you have to work really, really hard at radio to get on there," Gutstadt said. "I think her name captures some people's imagination and attention." 

"The Anna Delvey Show" podcast is distributed by AudioUp with producer Sean Glass.

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"This is the first time that people are hearing from her directly, allowing her to actually have a voice," Glass told NBC News.

Sorokin went by the name Anna Delvey as she spent years posing as the rich daughter of a German diplomat. She boasted the bogus fortune of 60 million euros and was seen among the New York City social scene for years before her scheme was foiled. 

She was convicted in 2019 on theft of services and larceny charges, though she plans to appeal. She was released in early 2021 after serving just three years of her four- to 12-year sentence but was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody just weeks later. 

Sorokin was released from jail on a $10,000 bail bond in October and is required to remain in 24-hour home confinement with electric monitoring and no access to social media, under the terms of her release. 

Fox News' Stephanie Pagones and Rebecca Rosenberg contributed to this report. 

Declassified Richard Nixon letter to President Clinton proves prophetic on Russia

A month before he died in April 1994, former President Richard Nixon wrote a letter to then-President Bill Clinton offering what Clinton later called "wise counsel, especially with regard to Russia." The contents of that letter have now been declassified by the Clinton presidential library and appear prophetic.

In the seven-page letter, dated March 21, 1994, and discussed by history professor Luke Nichter in the Wall Street Journal, Nixon gave a blunt assessment of the political situation in Russia, predicting accurately that relations between Moscow and Kyiv would deteriorate and that someone like Putin could come to power. Nixon, 81 at the time, wrote the letter after he returned from a two-week trip to Russia and Ukraine. 

While the former president is infamous for departing the White House amid scandal in 1974, his legacy includes being the architect of détente with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In 1972, Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit Moscow, where he signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Nixon spent the years following his presidency taking foreign trips on behalf of the United States and offering counsel based on decades of experience to guide U.S. policy in the post-Cold War era. 

Nixon considered the survival of political and economic freedom in Russia "the most important foreign policy issue the nation will face for the balance of this century." With that understanding, he told Clinton that based on what he saw in Russia, a fledgling democracy under former Russian President Boris Yeltsin was in danger. 

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"As one of Yeltsin’s first supporters in this country and as one who continues to admire him for his leadership in the past, I have reluctantly concluded that his situation has rapidly deteriorated since the elections in December, and that the days of his unquestioned leadership of Russia are numbered," Nixon wrote. "His drinking bouts are longer and his periods of depression are more frequent. Most troublesome, he can no longer deliver on his commitments to you and other Western leaders in an increasingly anti-American environment in the Duma and in the country."

Nixon foresaw that relations between Russia and Ukraine would dissolve. He called the situation in Ukraine "highly explosive." 

"If it is allowed to get out of control," Nixon told Clinton, "it will make Bosnia look like a PTA garden party." 

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The former president advised Clinton to strengthen American diplomatic representation in Kyiv, recounting conversations with American businessmen who complained that the embassy was "understaffed and inadequately led." 

Nixon also urged Clinton to develop relationships with Yeltsin's potential successors. "Bush made a mistake in sticking too long to Gorbachev because of his close personal relationship. You must avoid making that same mistake in your very good personal relationship with Yeltsin," he wrote. 

He was unsure who would rise to power next. "There is still no one who is in Yeltsin’s class as a potential leader in Russia," Nixon wrote. He informed Clinton that a nationalist and populist tide in Russia could produce a "credible candidate for president" — a mere five years before Putin's Russian nationalist regime took hold. 

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"The Russians are serious people. One of the reasons Khrushchev was put on the shelf back in 1964 is that the proud Russians became ashamed of his crude antics at the U.N. and in other international forums," Nixon wrote.

The letter also reveals some of Nixon's dislike for career diplomats. "I learned during my years in the White House that the best decisions I made, such as the one to go to China in 1972, were made over the objections of or without the approval of most foreign service officers," he wrote. Nixon advised Clinton to chart his own course and not to be held back by his staff. "Remember that foreign service officers get to the top by not getting into trouble. They are therefore more interested in covering their asses than in protecting yours."

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Clinton in later years would remember Nixon's advice fondly. "After he died, I found myself wishing I could pick up the phone and ask President Nixon what he thought about this issue or that problem, particularly if it involved Russia," he said in 2013. 

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