It sounds like a rejected spy thriller script: a Brooklyn socialite with Kremlin ties, a code name straight out of central casting, and late-night drunken texts to an FBI agent that read like a chaotic rom-com gone wrong.

But in a Manhattan federal courtroom this week, the story of Nomma Zarubina turned from bizarre spectacle to criminal conviction.

The 35-year-old Russian native, who had been living in Sheepshead Bay, pleaded guilty to two counts of making false statements — one to the FBI about her contacts with Russian intelligence operatives, and another to immigration officials after denying involvement in prostitution on her naturalization paperwork.

Her sentencing is set for June 11, and she faces up to 10 years in prison. Deportation is also expected to follow.

Zarubina was first arrested in November 2024 on charges that she lied to federal agents about her dealings with Kremlin-linked operatives. She was released on $20,000 bond — but her freedom was short-lived.

Prosecutors say that while out on bail, Zarubina began sending a string of bizarre, flirtatious, and at times hostile text messages to the very FBI agent investigating her.

“Catch me baby,” she texted the agent at 4:17 a.m. one September morning, according to court records.

“I am sooooo bad,” she added in the same late-night thread — later acknowledging she had been drinking heavily when she sent the messages.

The texts continued despite repeated judicial warnings to stop contacting the agent. In one November 2025 episode, she allegedly sent him 65 messages in a single night, declaring “I love you” and, when he failed to respond, calling him an “expletive.”

In another exchange, she sent a photo of herself drinking red wine in a cowboy hat, captioned simply, “mmmmm.”

At one point she even referenced Maria Butina — the admitted Russian agent who served 15 months in a U.S. prison for infiltrating conservative political networks.

“I guess Butina got more attention,” Zarubina reportedly huffed to the agent.

Behind the theatrics lies a much more serious allegation: that Zarubina had been operating as a Kremlin-linked asset under the code name “Alyssa” since December 2020.

According to a federal complaint unsealed in Manhattan, Zarubina admitted during summer 2024 meetings with the FBI that she had been tasked by Russian handlers with networking inside Washington, D.C. political and media circles. Court papers say she was encouraged to build relationships at think tanks, within military communities, and among journalists.

Her handlers allegedly asked her how to contact some of her American connections — individuals they hoped to invite to Russia to “convert” to what was described in court documents as the “Russian way of thinking.”

She reportedly succeeded in persuading several Capitol Hill insiders to pose for photos with her, bolstering her credibility.

Dmitry Valuev, president of Russian America for Democracy in Russia, told The New York Post that his organization had flagged Zarubina as suspicious for years. He claimed they tracked her work for what he described as a “shady Russian nonprofit,” where she allegedly acted as a representative to the United Nations.

The FBI’s interest in Zarubina began as early as October 2020, when agents interviewed her regarding her association with Elena Branson — a close friend who was later indicted in 2022 for allegedly spreading Russian foreign influence through an organization called the Russian Center New York. Branson fled to Moscow and remains at large.

During interviews in 2021, 2022, and 2023, Zarubina denied contact with Russian intelligence agents. But in June and July 2024, she changed course, admitting to communications with Kremlin-linked operatives.

In court, Zarubina attributed her cooperation — and much of her unraveling — to her emotional attachment to the FBI agent.

“He influenced me,” she told the judge. “I don’t know how — how to explain that. But my life became so different after I met him.”

She described feeling emotionally controlled, though she insisted she was not a spy.

“My life now seems like a tragedy because I get almost every day threats from many people from many countries who think that I was a spy but they don’t know the whole story,” she said.

At another point, she offered a defiant comparison between U.S. and Russian authorities: “They frame people, they build cases, you know.”

Judge Laura Swain was unmoved by the late-night messages and courtroom monologues. After finding that Zarubina violated the terms of her release by drinking and repeatedly contacting the agent, the judge revoked her bond and ordered her detained.

“I hear the pain that you’re in,” Swain told her. “But you’re not helping yourself.”

Complicating matters further, federal prosecutors in April 2025 accused Zarubina of participating in a scheme to transport women for prostitution at a massage parlor in East Brunswick, New Jersey — allegations she referenced during one of her drunken text tirades.

Her defense attorneys emphasized that she had been the primary caretaker of her young daughter while the case was pending in Brooklyn. They declined to comment publicly following her guilty plea.

Now, what once looked like a strange subplot of flirtation and bravado has hardened into federal convictions.

The woman who texted “Catch me baby” is no longer playing cat and mouse. Instead, she awaits sentencing — and likely deportation — in a case that blends espionage intrigue, social climbing ambition, and self-sabotage in equal measure.