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 right to market her brand’s apparel under this Mark, which includes but is not limited to items such as hoodies, t-shirts, tank tops, hats, dresses, and other clothing,” he wrote.
“A search of Walmart’s website and app reveals an alarming minimum of 53 listings advertising apparel and related items that unlawfully display the “Anna Delvey” Mark. These include ‘ANNA DELVEY Sweatshirt,’ ‘Anna Delvey Foundation Hoodie,’ ‘Funny Anna Delvey T-Shirt,’ and ‘Fashion Sweater For Her with Anna Delvey Sorokin’,” he wrote, adding that “Ms. Sorokin demands that Walmart immediately cease and desist from all sales, distribution, and advertising of any items bearing the ‘Anna Delvey’ Mark.”
The letter gave Walmart 24 hours to take the goods off the site and demanded “an immediate and comprehensive accounting of all sales data related to the infringing items, which includes but is not limited to, the quantity of units sold, revenue generated, detailed customer information, and inventory on hand for each infringing listing.”
“Should Walmart fail to deliver this data by November 20, 2024, Ms. Sorokin will have no choice but to proceed with court action against Walmart,” Levin said.
She’s been on a bit of a legal tear of late. Page Six previously reported that Delvey threatened to sue the “View” after Whoopi Goldberg said on air that Delvey “still owes people money.” (She’s actually paid back all the money she… acquired). In a later episode, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin read a statement saying, “we heard from Miss Delvey’s lawyer who strongly objected to our saying that. He argued that statement falsely suggests she still owes restitution to her fraud victims. And he provided a document from the Office of Victim Services that he says proves, quote, all of Miss Delvey’s restitution has been repaid in full and all the victims have been fully compensated, end quote.”
Walmart didn’t respond to our request for comment.
We have also reported that she’s set up a fashion PR firm, the OutLaw Agency with industry guru Kelly Cutrone.
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