![]() Will the events be ticketed, then, if you’re planning to raise money for these causes? No. What’s your vision for the events? In an ideal world, we would bring celebrities and influencers into the same room as people from charities and causes that are important to me personally. People assumed that this was already in the works, and I was like, “Somebody just leaked it.” When are you hoping to host your first dinner? As soon as possible. I’m just in my apartment all the time, and this is really the only possible solution that I have. ![]() I’m sure this is going to get pretty old pretty fast. I cannot go to anybody’s dinner party, so I have to do something of my own. Why host a dinner in the first place? I’m operating within my existing constraints because I’m on house arrest. “It’s up to me to show the world what I’m going to do with all this attention.” Sorokin, who used the $275,000 she’d swindled from rich friends and established financial institutions to fund her glamorous lifestyle, became infamous for these exact kinds of lofty ideas-lofty regardless of whether she had the funds to realize them or not. ![]() ![]() “I see it as an opportunity to bring attention to causes that are bigger than me and not just use it as, like, ‘What am I going to wear?’” she tells me over Zoom. And the aspirational and undisclosed guest list will include a curated group of celebrities, journalists, founders, and CEOs.Īccording to Sorokin, the dinners aren’t just about social clout and reestablishing herself in New York’s most elite networks post-prison. Her publicist is reaching out to partners who can sponsor lush tablescapes for the dinners. If all goes to plan, she hopes to serve food from upscale restaurants such as the omakase spot Shuko and Le Coucou-which is housed inside the 11 Howard hotel, where Sorokin lived out many of her scammer days and racked up a $30,000 tab (which she did eventually pay off). “Ideally in the long term, my goal is obviously to get a bigger place,” she says.Īfter the tour, Sorokin sits down in her small living room to talk about the upcoming dinners. Prep work will be tricky too: A Marguerite Wibaux sculpture of a naked figure (worth $2,500, according to the price tag) currently sits on her stove next to a bowl of what look to be mandarins. When Sorokin gives me a virtual tour of her kitchen over Zoom, her fridge appears to contain mostly beverages, such as LaCroix, San Pellegrino, and a bottle of cold brew. With no group dining table in her barely furnished apartment, which allegedly costs $4,250 per month, it’s not exactly dinner-party ready. The logistics around these dinners also raises questions. Another key component that remains to be seen: Who will show up for a meal with perhaps the most notorious grifter of the last decade? She allegedly scored $320,000 from the Netflix deal, but that money has since been used to pay legal fees and remunerate her victims. Who exactly she plans to invite and how much money she has to cover these dinners is unclear during my interview on Tuesday morning with Sorokin, her publicist cut her off from answering a handful of my questions surrounding the specifics. Only a select few will be invited to the lavish dinners, which Sorokin claims will be entirely free for her guests.
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