On February 11, Netflix launched ‘Invented Anna’, a new miniseries by Shonda Rhimes, creator of iconic shows like ‘Scandal’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’. The series is based on the true story of Anna Delvey, a supposed German heiress who conquered the upper echelons of the United States and carried out millionaire scams.
Julia Garner, who we already saw in the series ‘Ozark’, plays Anna since she arrives in New York, without having a single contact, where, based on deception, she manages to rise like foam: she leads a life of luxury, She rubs shoulders with the most prestigious families in the country and with celebrities… until she is discovered and taken to prison.
But, who really is Anna Delvey, or rather, Sorokin -her real surname-?, and how did she manage to be “friends” with the most influential people in the United States? Here we tell you about Anna’s background, what her methods were to achieve fraud and how she ended up sentenced from 4 to 12 years in prison.
The Real Story of Inventing Anna: The Birth of Anna Delvey
It all started when, in 2018, Jessica Pressler published in New York Magazine “Maybe She Had So Much Money that she lost track of it”, an article (what can you read here) about a woman who in a few years managed to integrate into New York upper-class groups, whom she named as her friends, with whom she traveled the world, stayed in luxury hotels and ate in the best restaurants.
Anna said that she was a German heiress and that her father had businesses related to the solar panel industry. In some cases she mentioned that her money came from oil or that she was the daughter of a German diplomat residing in Russia.
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None of this was true: Anna Sorokin changed her last name to Delvey, was not German, but of Russian origin, and came from a middle-class family. No inheritance, no easy money, no diamonds. She made it all up, after analyzing high society and figuring out how to climb up to be one of them.
In Pressler’s publication, it is narrated how people who knew Anna noticed strange attitudes in the unexpected socialite. She was unkind, she never used a credit card, so as not to leave a trace, and she always asked her companions to pay the bills under the pretext that she would deposit her part, a situation that never happened, but everyone used to. ignore.
Anna went to all the fashion weeks, lounged on yachts, surrounded herself with art experts, celebrities, and planned to open a very select type of club or foundation, without anyone suspecting that it was all a farce.
Nothing Lasts Forever: The Fall of Anna Delvey
Gradually people close to her became suspicious. Art collector Michael Xufu Huang realized something was wrong: Anna had celebrated her birthday with a big party at a restaurant in Soho, New York, but she hadn’t paid her bill.
That was how his “friends” began to distance themselves and the debts came closer than ever. He owed money to the people who had believed and invested in his project, he had a debt of 30,000 dollars with a hotel in Soho, and many problems with the banks that he had defrauded with false checks.
In 2019, Anna Sorkin was found guilty and sentenced to years in prison for fraud, theft, and embezzlement. Her story became popular thanks to the article by Pressler, who is part of the production team of the Netflix series.
And now you will ask yourself: how did Anna Sorokin manage to conquer the “coolest” and richest people in the world? The answer is mentioned at the end of Jessica’s article. Anna was not incredibly beautiful or charming or possessed of extraordinary intelligence, this is what she did: “she saw the soul of New York and recognized that if you distract people with shiny objects, wads of cash… if you show them the money, they will be virtually unable to see anything else.”
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Posted by Netflix on Tuesday, February 8, 2022
If the real story of Inventing Anna caught your attention and you like stories of scams and fraud, another option -sure, you’ve already seen it, but it’s worth recommending it- is to see ‘The Tinder Swindler’, an original documentary by Netflix that tells the story of Simon Leviev, a man who posed as a millionaire heir and scammed women out of approximately 10 million dollars.
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