Scam The Scammer: Wannabe Socialite Swindler May Accept Bilked Fyre Festival Fraudster

From Page Six:

Anna Sorokin in addition to Billy McFarland

We convey a winner inward the Scammer Olympics — afterward Page Six learned that “socialite grifter” Anna Sorokin managed to bilk months of costless accommodation inward a Soho loft out of a immature human being (alleged) heavyweight con artist, Fyre Festival organizer Billy McFarland.

In May 2017, it was revealed that Sorokin had posed every bit a High German heiress called Anna Delvey to allegedly trick banks, businesses in addition to friends into giving her hundreds of thousands of dollars inward cash in addition to goods.

But nosotros remove heed that New York’s about honey swindlers went caput to caput dorsum inward 2013 when Sorokin — who managed to remain at high-end hotels such every bit eleven Howard for months earlier beingness discovered — moved into the Wooster Street headquarters of McFarland’s dubious credit carte society Magnises for 4 months.

“Anna knew people on Billy’s team,” explains an insider. “She but asked to remain for a few days … hence she wouldn’t leave.”

Magnises — which McFarland i time notoriously said is “Latin for absolutely nothing” — produced “black cards” linked to members’ regular credit carte accounts. It besides threw bashes at the Soho loft....MORE