Dancing With The Stars: Anna Delvey joins line-up

Sorokin will be paired on the show with professional dancer Ezra Sosa.

The fraudster was found guilty in 2019 of theft of services and grand larceny, having scammed more than $200,000 (£145,000) from banks and luxury hotels.

She would tell people she had a $60m (£46m) trust fund and an ambitious project to create an eponymous arts foundation.

But she was, in fact, a recent magazine intern, who came from an ordinary family of Russian immigrants living in Germany.

By staying in expensive hotels and presenting a jet-set life on Instagram, she managed to trick others into believing her fantasy and picking up her bills.

Her story came to international attention in 2018 after a New York Magazine feature by writer Jessica Pressler.

It was then adapted by Shona Rhimes, the creative force behind Grey’s Anatomy, Bridgerton and Scandal, in a Netflix series where Sorokin was played by Julia Garner.

Sorokin was paid $320,000 (£230,000) by Netflix for Inventing Anna – but she was not able to keep all the Netflix money, owing to a New York law that prevents criminals from profiting from their notoriety.

“I never asked for Netflix to buy my story, it just happened,” Sorokin told the BBC in 2021, following her release from prison. “And everything else, it just spun out of my control.”