If there’s one thing Anna Delvey hates, it’s a fake! Delvey has sent a cease-and-desist to Walmart, Page Six hears, after the big box began selling T-shirts and sweaters with her name and image on them — because it turns out that she trademarked her criminal alias just before she left prison. Delvey’s real name is Anna Sorokin, and she famously went to the slammer for posing as a “fake heiress” to scam businesses and individuals out of more than $250,000 between 2013 and 2017. Since leaving prison , she’s successfully reinvented herself as a fashion insider.
And after the Walmart site began offering cheap-looking clothes with the name “Anna Delvey” on them, as well as pictures taken at her 2019 Manhattan trial, her lawyer Duncan Levin went into action. Calling it an “egregious..
. infringement of her federally registered trademark,” he said that “this infringement is highly damaging to Ms. Sorokin’s brand and reputation.
” The “Anna Delvey” trademark was registered to Anna Delvey LLC with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on September 3, 2022 (about a month before she was released from prison and put under house arrest in her East Village apartment) and it was approved in July of this year. Per the filing, it covers; “Dresses; Gloves; Hats; Hoodies; Pants; Rompers; Scarves; Shirts; Shoes; Shorts; Skirts; Socks; Bottoms as clothing; Tank tops; Tops as clothing; Under garments and Waist belts.” “Ms.
Sorokin holds an exclusive righ.
