Fake heiress Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey, says she received hundreds of death threats after being accused of abandoning rabbits she posed with for a photoshoot in a New York City park. Sorokin, 34, borrowed the bunnies from acquaintance Christian Batty, who unbeknownst to her, had abandoned them in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park after the shoot. After initially denying it, Batty eventually fessed up to abandoning the animals, but that didn’t stop irate Instagram users flooding Sorokin’s inbox with threats. “It just seems to me like everything I do is just wrong,” Sorokin said, sharing screenshots of the hateful messages from a deluge of animal activists which had rendered her Insta unusable. “I can never do right by these people,” she added. “It seems like a lot of these people, just because they’re engaged in animal rescue, they feel like they’re entitled to insult you or talk to you or say anything because they’re hiding behind this thing that they’re doing,” she continued, highlighting threats she should take her own life or get someone to “make a carpet out of your skin.” Sorokin was jailed in 2019 for defrauding investors of tens of thousands of dollars after posing as a fake heiress named Anna Delvey, with her exploits later depicted in the hit 2022 Netflix drama, Inventing Anna. The rabbits used in the shoot are currently in foster care until they can find their forever home.
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