Anna Sorokin, better known to some as Anna Delvey, still insists she’s not a con artist.
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the 9-episode series tells the story of the fake German (really Russian) heiress named Anna, who swooped into Manhattan in 2014 and set about establishing herself as an ‘It’ girl with big business plans and a huge trust fund. The trust fund did not exist, month long stays at various swanky hotels were never paid, and somehow, the check — or in this case, the German wire transfer — was always in the mail.In reality, she was a Russian-born girl named Anna Sorokin, who moved to Germany as a teen.
As a young woman, she decamped to Paris, started using the last name Delvey, made her way to New York and a grifter legend was born, with an Instagram account that depicted a glamorous, jet-setting life. If you find yourself desperate for more Anna content after finishing the series, look no further than “My Friend Anna: The True Story of the Fake Heiress Who Conned Me and Half of New York City” (Gallery Books) by Rachel DeLoache Williams. (Bizarrely, Williams is depicted unsympathetically in the series, while Anna is, at times, presented as some sort of feminist antihero rather than a lying thief. Published in 2019, the book is the account of Williams’ friendship with Delvey — who invited Williams on a trip to Morocco, where they stayed at a $7,500-per-night private villa at five-star La Mamounia hotel.
But complications arose — as they always did with Anna — and it turned out her credit cards did not work. Faced with the possible involvement of the Moroccan police over nonpayment, Williams produced her own credit cards and was assured by Anna that she would pay her back as soon as they returned to the US.
This was a lie, and Williams was left with a bill of $62,000, much of it on her corporate credit card. Williams would
.Anna Sorokin, better known to some as Anna Delvey, still insists she’s not a con artist.
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Inventing Anna is the latest Netflix series to have us gripped to our TV screens.The new binge-worthy series tells the story of Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, who defrauded New York’s elite by pretending to be a German heiress. She posed as a heiress who hailed from Europe with a trust fund of $60 million (£44million), and lived a life of luxury thanks to her fake persona.
trashy new Netflix series “Inventing Anna.” The show focuses on the infamous Anna Sorokin (aka Anna Delvey), who was sent to the clink in 2019 for remorselessly defrauding friends, banks and hotels out of a total of $275,000 by pretending to be a wealthy German woman.Shonda seems to think that deep down the deranged Sorokin wasn’t a fabulist who lied with abandon and cruelly used everyone she met at all. No! She was a modern-day Gloria Steinem who was held back by our inhospitable world of horrible men.
Wyatte Grantham-Philips editorWhen bringing a “whole story [that] is completely true, except for all the parts that are totally made up” to life, “Inventing Anna” costume designers Lyn Paolo and Laura Frecon had to dive into Instagram.“The very beginning of the project was actually more about research and matching everything that the real Anna wore for her Instagram — which sort of became our Greek chorus,” Paolo told Variety. “And that was extensive research… Even before we got into the fashion elements, we had to recreate that whole Instagram wall, and also all of the court looks.”“Inventing Anna” follows faux-heiress Anna Delvey (née Anna Sorokin) (Julia Garner) as she awaits trial for grand larceny and theft of services.
Shonda Rhimes’ limited Netflix series about Anna Delvey above the typical true-crime drama is the designer fashions the characters wear onscreen. Like, which Delvey watched to learn English, and, directed by David Frankel, who helms two of the series’ episodes, is as much about the fashion as it is about a young woman who pretended to be a German heiress to con her way through the rich and elite of New York City.
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, celebrity trainer Kacy Duke is sharing how she really feels about the Netflix series. Portrayed by Laverne Cox, Duke was one of the many people sucked in and then conned by Anna Delvey, aka the “Fake German Heiress” convicted of scamming some of New York’s elite, high-end hotels and restaurants and banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. “Wow, what a ride it’s been,” Duke tells ET’s Lauren Zima after watching all nine episodes of the binge-worthy.
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Inventing Anna is , but perhaps none as heart-pounding and relatable as episode six, which takes place in Marrakech at the ultra luxurious . In the episode, Anna Delvey—who scammed nearly everyone in her path by pretending to be an heiress from Germany—takes “friends” Rachel, Kacy, and Noah to Morocco for a swanky getaway.
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, Arian Moayed has joined another high-profile series,, creator Shonda Rhimes’ true-crime drama about Anna Delvey, the convicted fraudster popularly known as the Fake German Heiress. Moayed, the 41-year-old actor who was also recently seen in and, talks to ET about his scene-stealing performance as Delvey’s no-nonsense lawyer, Todd Spodek, and having to perform his big courtroom scenes in front of his real-life counterpart.Initially hired when Delvey, portrayed here by Julia Garner, was first arrested for not paying for an outstanding hotel bill, Spodek is eventually tasked with defending her against multiple larceny charges related to her attempt to secure a $20 million loan for her elite club, the Anna Delvey Foundation (ADF), as well as sticking one of her friends with a $60,000 bill after failing to pay for their lavish trip to Morocco. Unlike members of New York society, the city’s high-end hotels and restaurants, or even the bank executives who fall under the guise of this German heiress, her lawyer was not enchanted by any of that.