Anna Sorokin, who once pretended to be a fake, wealthy German heiress to scam friends and banks out of significant cash, has been released from prison early due to good behavior.
Sorokin was released Thursday from the Albion Correctional Facility in upstate New York after serving a fraction of her four- to 12-year sentence behind bars, according to a statement from the New York State Department of Correction obtained by Oxygen.com.
Netflix paid fake heiress Anna Sorokin $320,000 for her life story to be adapted for a new Shonda Rhimes show - and she used the money to pay off her victims
Anna Sorokin, 29, has already used the money to pay $199,000 in restitution to the banks she scammed
Another $24,000 has also been paid in state fines
Her funds were initially frozen by New York state in May 2019 under the Son of Sam law
Ahead of her expected release, however, Albany County judge Richard Platkin ordered the Office of Victim Services (OVS) Thursday to unfreeze her accounts
In April 2019, Sorokin was convicted of multiple counts of attempted grand larceny, theft of services, and larceny in the second degree