News about beautiful scammers and scammers ingratiating themselves with the American elite has been constantly appearing in the media space lately. It would seem that American prominent figures and the rich should have become more careful long ago, not to trust the allegations of “millionaires and heirs”, but they still fall for this bait. REN TV brought together the most famous swindlers of recent years.
Anna de Rothschild – Inna Yaschishin
Once a wealthy heiress, Anna de Rothschild played golf with former U.S. President Donald Trump and senators at his estate in Mar-a-Lago, and today the FBI is investigating her for fraud. This is because the girl who ingratiates herself with the ex-leader of the United States has nothing to do with the Rothschild family or a rich inheritance. She is a scammer.
Anna boasted of her family roots and belonging to a European dynasty of bankers, spoke several languages fluently, wore designer clothes, Rolex watches, and drove a black Mercedes-Benz SUV worth $170,000. She told her wealthy friends about projects to build a high-rise hotel in Monaco, luxury housing in the Emerald Bay in the Bahamas and the Formula 1 race track in Miami.
However, the real name of this 33-year-old woman is Inna Yashchishina and she is a native of Ukraine. The real Anna de Rothschild practically does not show up at the get-togethers of the American rich and most of the time is mainly engaged in science. Yashchishina took advantage of this by rudely forging documents for the name Rothschild.
Her fraudulent activities began seven years ago with the Children’s Hearts for Mercy charity foundation. Yashchishina called for donating money to poor families, but in reality she only appropriated it. When she could no longer manage to hide it, complaints fell upon the woman. Inna changed her name and tactics, and then went on the hunt for the former American president. Friendship with Yashchishina greatly damaged Trump, who himself is now suspected of taking secret documents from the White House. Whether the fraudster got access to these papers will now have to be dealt with by American law enforcement officers.
Anna Delvey – Anna Sorokina
Wealthy German heiress Anna Delvey arrived in New York in 2016 and quickly entered the local fashion circle. She told her friends that at the age of 25 she would inherit 60 million euros. She also showed supporting documents. Only they were fake.
The heiress from Germany turned out to be Anna Sorokina, a native of Domodedovo near Moscow. She was born in January 1991. In 2007, her family moved to the small town of Eschweiler in Germany. The girl’s father is a truck driver, and her mother is a housewife.
Her path to New York, where Anna’s machinations were revealed, began from London, where she was supposed to study in college, continued in Paris, where she received an internship at the famous Purple magazine and made friends with the editor-in-chief, Oliver Zam.
Always smartly dressed, Anna appeared at parties in brands such as Alexander Wang, Supreme and Celine, inspiring confidence not only in celebrities and wealthy people, but also in investors, entrepreneurs and banks. Among her victims was even former federal prosecutor and well-known lawyer Joel Coen. She allowed friends to pay for herself at parties, restaurants, and even trips, pledging to return the money later or accepting such gestures as a gift. She constantly took out loans and overdrafts, presented fake documents, and spent the money on luxurious outfits.
Later, her friends will tell that the girl held herself in such a way that no one could even think that she was not who she claims to be. However, one day the series of people who believed in her ended.
Anna’s rich life came to an end when huge debts came to light. The girl owed the hotel $30,000, and her loans totaled about $275,000. In 2017, the former socialite was charged with several counts, including illegal receipt of services (theft of services) and embezzlement on an especially large scale.
In 2019, a jury found her guilty on eight counts and sentenced her to 4 to 12 years in prison. The fraudster served four years in prison. In February 2021, she was released for good behavior.
All the time the girl was in prison, she kept her blog “Anna Delvey’s Diaries”, as well as an Instagram page (owned by Meta, a recognized extremist company in Russia), where she described her life in custody. The girl has a lot of fans. After leaving prison, Sorokina became very popular. Many American women were so inspired by her that they dressed up in her image on Halloween.
In 2018, Netflix announced that it had bought the film rights to a New York Magazine article. In 2019, a podcast about Sorokin’s life was released on the BBC. The American actress, director Lena Dunham, who is working on a project dedicated to fraud, also became interested in Delvey’s life.
Elizabeth Holmes and her fake startup
In 2003, at the age of 19, Elizabeth Holmes arrived in Silicon Valley with her startup Theranos. The project promised to revolutionize the world of medicine and allow hundreds of diseases to be detected based on the analysis of just a couple of drops. Over the first year, investors invested more than $90 million in the project.
At its peak, Theranos was valued at $9 billion. Holmes herself graced the covers of magazines everywhere and was considered the youngest self-made billionaire on the planet. Everyone called her the rising star of Silicon Valley. In 2015, Time magazine named Holmes one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
American celebrities were on the board of directors of Theranos: two former secretaries of state – George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, former head of the US Department of Defense William Perry. Investors in the company included publisher and businessman Rupert Murdoch and billionaire Betsy Devos.
Theranos started having problems after an investigation by The Wall Street Journal all the same in 2015. The revelatory article showed the world that the technology did not work, the analyzes were carried out on the equipment of competitors, and the startup itself and the entire campaign turned out to be a “soap bubble”. Holmes herself did not admit her failure until the last.
In January 2022, a jury in San Jose, California found Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos blood testing startup, guilty of fraud. The jury listened to the testimony of the parties for three months. Holmes was found guilty of four of the 11 counts of conspiracy and fraud and acquitted of four counts. The jury failed to reach a verdict on three counts. Holmes was found not guilty on all charges related to deceiving patients.
“We want to deceive further”
All these stories show only one thing: any pretty swindler who introduces herself as a smart and rich woman is able to confuse the heads of the American elite. Even better, if her name is Anna, then she will only have to say that she has a lot of money. And if in the case of Holmes, politicians and businessmen, it seems, were able to justify themselves in court that they fell under the spell of a beauty and sincerely believed in the success of her company, then with Donald Trump the situation looks much more complicated. His connections with Inna Yashchishina could hurt not only himself, but the entire Republican Party if the most popular representative is arrested.
It is not surprising that members of the Democratic Party are actively using the situation for their own purposes: they are spinning a scandal in the controlled media and are criticizing. Meanwhile, the congressional elections are already in November and it is not yet known how the situation with Trump playing golf with a fraudster will affect them.
Source: Ren.tv
Ashley Fitzgerald is an accomplished journalist in the field of technology. She currently works as a writer at 24 news breaker. With a deep understanding of the latest technology developments, Ashley’s writing provides readers with insightful analysis and unique perspectives on the industry.