He raised his arms in a dramatic shrug: “I thought you’d find that funny.”

“So you forged Anna Delvey?” I clarified. But I wouldn’t have known the difference between the drawing she made for Cosmo and the larger 22'-by-30' version framed before me at the pop-up gallery had a man scooting around the exhibition in a chair with wheels and his feet covered only in socks not said to me, slyly: “I recreated the artwork for her.” The original ICE sketch now lies on my desk in the priority mail envelope she’d sent to me in February, complete with $26.95 of postage. With limited supplies, she made just one test drawing, completing it in a day: “I was still finishing the shadings when the mail officer called for me to fill out the mailing forms,” Sorokin recalled, adding, “I made her wait a little bit.” From her cell in Goshen, New York, and without access even to an eraser, Sorokin had drawn Cosmo her first published sketch since being detained by those authorities for overstaying her visa in March 2021. Courtesy of Alfredo Martinez and Anna SorokinĪs a crime reporter, I had followed her case-and her drawings about it-since covering her Manhattan trial and conviction for financial crimes for the New York Times in 2019, and we had met at Rikers several times for interviews during her incarceration.

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