Inventing Anna

Julia Garner plays Anna Delvey in the new Netflix drama.

“But is Anna New York’s biggest con woman or is she simply the new portrait of the American dream? However, it would prove that none of that was true. Others claim they understood that her family was “big in antiques in Germany”.

Anna Delvey (AKA Anna Sorokin) was paid six figures by Netflix for the rights to make 'Inventing Anna.'

She's also paid $75,000 in attorney fees, and will have more to pay once her legal matter has resolved/concluded. With her fees being paid, her funds were unfrozen in 2021, but she won't have much, if anything, left over from that payday. She was first arrested in 2017, before sitting trial in 2019, when she was found guilty of defrauding hotels, restaurants, banks, and more out of more than $200,000. Well, for the most part; as text at the beginning of every Inventing Anna episode says, "This whole story is completely true.

This Super Bowl weekend, super showrunner Shonda Rhimes has a new Netflix drama series, "Inventing Anna," inspired by a real-life grifter who scammed the ...

The new season started streaming Friday. What did we miss? What did you like about today's newsletter? a few years ago, and it was one of the highlights of my career. That was the premise of the first season of "Love Is Blind," which took fans by storm back in 2020 and resulted in some marriages Let's go ahead and declare "super-ness" as the theme of the week.

Shonda Rhimes's Netflix series about New York's fake heiress can't fight its adoration of fake-it-til-you-make-it capitalism.

In the end, ‘the Anna Delvey story’ is just glossy, gossipy entertainment, and this series is at it’s best when the money is flowing, things are fun, and death and taxes are out of sight. But, perhaps it is the perfect portrayal of the Anna Delvey story, which is, of course, the Jessica Pressler story, and the Vivian Kent story. Why are Delvey and the journalist portrayed as flawed but striving girlbosses, trying to prove their ambition and talent to the male ‘powers that be’? Why is Rachel’s Vanity Fair piece portrayed as a bit of bitchiness, and the New York piece as an exemplary work of narrative journalism? Anna’s ‘business’ might be revealed as a pipe dream, but the validity of striving to be a famous, wealthy entrepreneur is taken as a given. A tantalising exchange at a gallery between Anna and a lifestyle-brand millionaire about the value of an early Cindy Sherman self-portrait gestures towards a broader take-down of the art market as a fraud, and contemporary art itself as a scam. Could it have anything to do with that Netflix contract perhaps, and the fact it’s an adaptation of Rachel’s piece that is supposedly making its way to HBO? At the heart of all grifts, scams and hustles is old-fashioned competition. But, what he’s not saying – what he’s trying to gloss over – is that not everyone lies about being an heiress to a fortune in the multi-millions, and not everyone tries to skip out on hotel bills totalling tens of thousands of dollars. It’s worth keeping in mind the trash fire that was Fyre Festival while watching Inventing Anna. Not just because the series features Delvey overstaying her welcome at Billy McFarland’s live-work loft space, throwing shade on his scheme for what she disparagingly calls ‘a party’, but also because, behind the scenes, ‘the Anna Delvey story’ is also the story of a rapid cash-grab and a streaming services bidding war. This perfect storm of contemporary personalities is why I’m not going to explain any further who Anna Delvey is, because, frankly if you don’t already know you must have been living under the proverbial rock for the last three years (lucky you, to be honest). Suffice it to say, within a few weeks of Pressler’s story breaking, the broke ‘heiress’ was big business. Despite attempts to construct itself as an ensemble piece – the series follows journalist Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky) in her investigation into Delvey (Julia Garner) and each episode trails the perspective of a different Delvey acquaintance, or witness, if you will – really Inventing Anna is a one-woman show. As the spawn of this marketplace, perhaps it is unsurprising that Inventing Anna seems confused about where it stands on the big money question – on whether, to update Gordon Gekko’s famously misquoted catchphrase, grift is good. Don’t expect an interrogation of US incarceration, or a deep-dive into the notoriously hellish conditions at New York’s mammoth jail complex, because Inventing Anna only has time for one entity renowned for exploitation and misconduct, and that’s Delvey herself.

Anna Delvey aka Anna Sorkin, the fake German heiress, was paid a hefty sum of money from Netflix for her story in a Shonda Rimes...

After she paid the restitution, the courts let her keep what little is left. Of the $320,000 Sorokin received from Netflix she paid 199,000 in restitution, $24,000 in state fines, and $75,000 in attorney fees. Her story became national headlines in 2018 after New York Magazine ran a story about her plan to create a mixed use space by borrowing money from banks.

Like, it's so shocking, the first episode should have a 5-minute opening scene explaining that this is what the real Anna Delvey sounds like.

I tried to sound a little more Russian in those scenes because she was emotional." Once she had that down, she transitioned to learning the classic American accent, saying, "Then she learns English. People in Europe learn English in the British way. And then she comes to America, and the musicality is not European. So she speaks like an American, and, in America, people end every sentence with a question mark? Then I had to incorporate Russian." "First, I had to learn a German accent," she explained. different. Garner admitted that it's hard to believe this is what she sounded like but insists she's done her research.