Where is Anna Sorokin’s ex-boyfriend now? Inventing Anna’s Chase Sikorski is based on Hunter Lee Soik, who worked for Kanye West, was an expat in Dubai and founded a Hong Kong-based company

Mar 17 , 2022

Learn more about the real Chase Skorski from Inventing Anna, Hunter Lee Soik. Photos: @hunterleesoik/Twitter, @Phabpresh/Twitter

Anna Sorokin (aka Anna Delvey) currently faces deportation from the United States back to Europe after years in prison on charges related to scamming the New York social elite out of millions of dollars.

A former boyfriend is said to have introduced her to many of her contacts who helped her climb the social ladder in an effort to start a private member’s club in the Big Apple. So where is the man said to have helped the fake German heiress now?

1. Who is Anna Sorokin’s ex-boyfriend?

In an Instagram post, Sorokin offered to reveal the name of her former flame to the highest bidding media outlet, with bids starting at US$10,000. However the New York Magazine article that exposed much of the scammer’s wrongdoings revealed that he is Hunter Lee Soik, a futurist on the TED talk circuit, whose idea for an app that’s a database for dreams never came to fruition. The publication described him as running around with Sorokin in 2015 and 2016.

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2. Is Chase Sikorski based on Hunter Lee Soik?

Saamer Usmani plays Chase Sikorski in Inventing Anna. Photo: Netflix

The character Chase Sikorski in Netflix series Inventing Anna is based on Lee Soik, according to media reports in February, which stated that he’s very well connected in the tech space. A source is quoted as saying he got Sorokin into the scene, always giving her advice about how to climb the ladder.

Saamer Usmani as Chase Sikorski and Julia Garner as Anna Delvey in Inventing Anna. Photo: Netflix

Just like how Chase did a TED Talk about Wake, Lee Soik had Shadow – an app that would allow users to record dreams and compare and contrast them via a cloud-based system.

3. What is he known for?

Hunter Lee Soik was born in South Korea. Photo: @johnmaeda/Twitter

Lee Soik was born in South Korea, then got adopted and moved to Wisconsin, US. He moved to California as an adult, but a Fast Company profile from 2014 reported that he lives out of temporarily rented homes in Berlin, San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. The publication said he often finds the homes via Airbnb – and that he wears only black.

Hunter Lee Soik during his TED talk. Photo: @hunterleesoik/Twitter

Lee Soik has worked as a photographer and a model in the past, even appearing in a Coca Cola commercial. He was a creative consultant on Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Watch the Throne” tour and, under his production company, he also collaborated with Stella McCartney and Vans.

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4. What role did he play in Sorokin’s life?

Hunter Lee Soik. Photo: @ravikarkara/Twitter

“For about two years, they’d been kind of like a team, showing up in places frequented by the itinerant wealthy, living out of fancy hotels and hosting scene-y dinners where the futurist talked up his app and Delvey spoke of the private club she wanted to open,” The New Yorker wrote.

However, a source close to them said the pair were irritating to those who saw through them. “Anna and her boyfriend were not glamorous, they were just annoying,” an insider told the media in February.

5. Where is Lee Soik now?

Hunter Lee Soik relocated to Dubai after his split with Anna Sorokin. Photo: @NeilKNet/Twitter

The Korean-American was living in Dubai by the time Jessica Pressler – the journalist who inspired Vivian Kent in Inventing Anna – tried to track him down.

New York Magazine also said that Sorokin’s mystery boyfriend ended up moving to the United Arab Emirates after he split from Sorokin in 2016.

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His latest role is the “founder and executive chairman of the Enso Group, a Hong Kong-based family office focused on investing in frontier technology and breakthrough product experiences”, according to his LinkedIn profile. However the link to the company he started at in 2018 is now defunct.

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Fame and celebrity

Hunter Lee Soik reportedly dated Sorokin (aka Anna Delvey) for two years until 2016 and introduced her to many of the New York socialites who became victims of her scam
Lee Soik once worked as a creative consultant for Jay-Z and Kanye West, modelled for a Coca-Cola commercial and collaborated with Stella McCartney and Vans