{"id":1340,"date":"2025-08-13T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:04:26","slug":"fake-heiress-anna-delveys-photoshoot-bunnies-dumped-in-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=1340","title":{"rendered":"Fake Heiress Anna Delvey\u2019s Photoshoot Bunnies Dumped in Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The convicted Russian con woman known as Anna Delvey, sporting a strapless sundress, white pumps, and an ankle monitor, posed glamorously in a recent photoshoot on the streets of New York City, holding two rabbits on a hot pink leash. Then, the rabbits were abandoned in a nearby urban park.<\/p>\n<p>The SoHo scammer, who is currently serving house arrest for\u00a0defrauding banks, hotels, and New York City elites by posing as a German heiress, can now add animal negligence to the controversies she is associated with.<\/p>\n<div class=\"instagram-media-wrapper caas-loaded\" data-embed-anchor=\"78e4d4ff-452c-5c12-b472-23ae79a3092a\" data-caas-lazy-loading-init=\"1\"><iframe class=\"caas-iframe-instagram\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNEHuyKudbm\/embed\/captioned?cr=1&amp;v=12\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>After Delvey posted her photoshoot, Terry Chao, a vegan influencer and blogger, realized that Delvey\u2019s rabbits were the same rabbits she rescued earlier that week, whom Chao named Moon and Parker.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving an alert from her neighborhood Facebook group, Chao teamed up with two other Brooklyn locals to rescue the rabbits from Prospect Park, as\u00a0she explained in an Instagram post. After seeing Delvey\u2019s post, Chao contacted Christian Batty, who Delvey had credited as her rabbit scout in the photo caption. Coincidentally, Batty had previously reached out to Chao to ask if they could borrow her pet rabbit for the photoshoot.<\/p>\n<p>A heated back-and-forth ensued. Batty insisted to Chao that the rabbits were safe, even sending her what appeared to be a forged text exchange to \u201cprove\u201d it, Chao wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"instagram-media-wrapper caas-loaded\" data-embed-anchor=\"a4e1a22b-fc24-51b4-bf7f-aea1d953329a\" data-caas-lazy-loading-init=\"1\"><iframe class=\"caas-iframe-instagram\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNMlfBZJDtu\/embed\/captioned?cr=1&amp;v=12\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As outraged animal rights defenders flooded Delvey\u2019s comment section, Delvey responded with anger in equal proportion. \u201dI will find and sue dimwits like yourself who simply refuse to accept that the bunnies that were borrowed for our shoot are safe at home with their owners,\u201d Delvey replied to one commenter.<\/p>\n<p>By Sunday, the jig was up. Batty issued a public apology for the incident and stated that Delvey had no part in the rabbit dump or the failed cover-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I realized the rabbits were being surrendered to me, I panicked. At 19, with no experience caring for animals, no pet-friendly housing, and no knowledge of available resources, I felt overwhelmed and made the worst possible choice,\u201d Batty wrote. \u201cBelieving, mistakenly, that there were existing rabbits in that area, I released them there, thinking that was my best option.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-lightbox portrait\" data-lightbox-src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/d72k.s7fDyQBf2h.FbVrjA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTE3NjI7aD0yOTk2O2NmPXdlYnA-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/thedailybeast.com\/cb5c1bc16b5570738a6ddd6ff343bb27\">\n<div class=\"caas-img-underlay\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"caas-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/JeoAwye70x.N5GnbffgQpQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTE2MzI7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/thedailybeast.com\/cb5c1bc16b5570738a6ddd6ff343bb27\" alt=\"Batty issued a public apology about the incident and claimed that Delvey was not involved with the bunny dump. \/ Christian Batty\/Instagram\" data-caas-lazy-loading-init=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image\"><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\" data-id=\"m-1\">Batty issued a public apology about the incident and claimed that Delvey was not involved with the bunny dump. \/ Christian Batty\/Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Batty also helped Chao rescue a third lost rabbit, whom Chao named Joaquin. All three rabbits are now in foster care until they find a permanent home, according to Chao, who is also raising donations for the rescued pets.<\/p>\n<p>In a written statement to the Daily Beast, Delvey wrote that Batty, whom she knew only tangentially, claimed he \u201cknew someone who could lend us bunnies for a few hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-lightbox\" data-lightbox-src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/DTNK9k0UOuuqCL4Y7YBB_Q--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTI0MDA7aD0xNzEwO2NmPXdlYnA-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/thedailybeast.com\/4b9e8bcc577beea3cc44483a803944ae\"><span class=\"caas-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview caas-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/CvJ_YlCy5cYBPlG80T0jng--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY4NDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/thedailybeast.com\/4b9e8bcc577beea3cc44483a803944ae\" alt=\"Anna Delvey, whose legal name is Anna Sorokin, was charged with grand larceny, second-degree larceny, and theft of services in 2019. Her story was developed into the 2022 Netflix miniseries \" data-caas-lazy-loading-init=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\" data-id=\"m-2\">Anna Delvey, whose legal name is Anna Sorokin, was charged with grand larceny, second-degree larceny, and theft of services in 2019. Her story was developed into the 2022 Netflix miniseries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI later discovered that, instead of borrowing animals from a legitimate source, he had obtained them via Facebook Marketplace and intended to release them into Prospect Park, a plan of which I had no knowledge,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not eat meat, and I had no involvement in the acquisition, transport, or return of these animals. I would never condone these actions,\u201d Delvey wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Delvey posted screenshots of text exchanges on her Instagram story throughout Monday to proclaim her innocence after Chao made her complaints public, and screenshot a picture of a $1,000 donation to a rabbit rescue nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Beast has reached out to Batty for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure they\u2019re all pretty complicit, and if they had wanted to do the right thing, they could have, and they didn\u2019t,\u201d Chao told the Daily Beast on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Jenna Goins, who helped Chao rescue the rabbits, claims that the animal mistreatment started during Delvey\u2019s photoshoot. \u201cBunnies should not be kept on leashes like that. And then in another photo, she had the bunny upside down on its back,\u201d Goins said, explaining that placing rabbits in that position unnecessarily puts them into a state of fear and induces an involuntary state of paralysis.<\/p>\n<p>Chao added that rabbits are \u201cone of the most abused animals,\u201d and that Delvey\u2019s photoshoot controversy illuminates how pets can be mistreated out of ignorance. \u201cIt\u2019s never okay to dump your pet, ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the best possible outcome out of a heinous action that happened,\u201d Chao said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The convicted Russian con woman known as Anna Delvey, sporting a strapless sundress, white pumps, and an ankle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}