Please look up the difference between “sociopath” and “psychopath”; for one thing, the former are not murderers.

Please get your facts in order. NOT a freelancer, but a longtime Vanity Fair staffer. And the 62K that she was out is more than she NETS in a year, not more than she earns (big difference). She charged the 62K to her company AmEx, and I’m sure that V Fair has forgiven the debt now that she has written a compelling…

No such thing a a victimless crime. Who do you think pays for the banks’ losses? You do, though increased service charges. Rich individuals are insured up the wazoo against all sorts of losses (and they know how to manipulate Loss A so they can claim it as Loss B) — and there too the rest of us pay, through higher…

If she were another race, she couldn’t have passed herself off as a European heiress, which was key to the story. It’s a story of a grift of great complexity, which is rare and fascinating, AND a story of a grifter conning people who ought to know better and who think they *do* know better. That’s partly why this is…

And who do you think pays for all that she ripped off from banks? The rest of us, through increased service charges and other fees. There’s nothing admirable about Sorokin — and, no one is planning a docu. Shonda Rhimes is planning a TV minseries, which will distort and glamourize the truth. If you want to understand…

I can understand why you don’t want to spend more time reading about her, but if you don’t then you’ll have to believe the people who’ve read more and say that she’s fascinating — not admirable or charming, but fascinating, as a case study in human abnormality. I find her repugnant; I think she should get a long senten…

FVI: They had no credit card on file for her, because of an office screw-up (this detail is specified in either NY mag or V Fair); if they’d had a card, they would have tried to run it earlier and they would have ejected her (for nonpayment) earlier.

For the record: Not a freelancer but a longtime staffer at Vanity Fair. And the $62K is more than she NETS a year, not EARNS (big difference). Plus, she wrote a long piece about the experience for Vanity Fair, and I’m guessing that went a long way toward repaying the debt (she had charged the $62K to her workplace…

Oh no no no no no. Some details I remember from a longer profile: She presented forged documents (forged bank transfers, I think); she was depositing fraudulent checks and withdrawing funds before they cleared; and she had someone who was pretending to be her family’s money manager “verify” to bankers and lawyers that…

Narcissism isn’t vanity, so aging isn’t going to affect it. A narcissist is someone who is masks an intolerable sense of shame (which is the result of very early and very deep attachment disorder) by manipulating others. Narcissists exploit others for their own gain (sometimes that gain is admiration) or to satisfy…

That was my initial response, but I think she objects to the idea that someone that “old” could play her at 20-25, which is when some of the action (and the backstory) occurred. Regardless, she is one sick human, and ?Neff? Davis, the former concierge who was her friend, seems almost as sick in her comments about Anna…

My understanding is that Sorokin is selling her story — so she’ll profit from whoever wants to rubberneck. She shouldn’t be permitted to profit from her self-aggrandizing, sociopathic crimes, nor should anyone else.