V.vat the spectacular scams, and how the platforms return them to us. The last is that of Anna Delvey illustrated in Inventing Annasecond series by Shonda Rhimes for Netflixavailable from today.
That is the story of the Russian girl born Anna Sorokin as the daughter of a truck driver, who later went on to be a student of the St. Martin of London as an intern in the prestigious Parisian magazine Purple.
In the end skilled socialite from New York as a Russian heiress in search of affirmation. And capitals. An adventure ended behind bars with an accusation of fraud and embezzlement. But let’s go in order.
Inventing Anna: who is Anna Delvey?
It all started with a long article by Jessica Pressler released on New York magazine in 2017. Anna Delvey is the genius alter ego invented by Anna Sorokinlass born in 1991 in Domodedovoa desolate town south of Moscow to escape from which he convinced (and already here we have a first taste of his incredible manipulative skills) parents to invest in her future by paying her the prestigious Central St. Martin.
The real Anna Sorokin after her sentence in 2019. (Getty Images)
From there to be admitted in the editorial office of Purplethe step is short, but since the apprenticeship is tiring Anna Sorokin studies a plan, a shortcut to the glossy world who has always dreamed of. He moves to New Yorkchanges her surname to Delvay and starts living a millionaire’s life thanks to an almost perfect scam against three banks.
Howard 11 and Neff
Anna enters the high society of the Big Apple in style by renting a deluxe suite from $ 400 a night at Howard 11 in Sohodistributing like rain $ 100 tip a blow and starting to give dinners and parties to which it ends as well Macaulay Culkin.
To act as an unconscious assistant / secretary at first is Neffconsierge of the hotel that even becomes her friend but that, when things start to go wrong, he finds himself having to pay $ 300 bills instead of Annawhich with his salary are madness.
Julia Garner as Anna Delvey in “Inventing Anna”. (netflix)
Anna Delvay / Sorikin’s game is simple: flaunt a jet set lifestyle so that no one doubtsnot even the luxurious hotel he chose as his first victim, the fact that the one who is passes off as the heiress of a Russian solar energy magnate doesn’t actually have a dime.
New York is the world homeland of the rich kids and, as long as the bills are paid, no one really asks where the money comes from even if, as in Anna’s case, astronomical figures are strictly paidn cash.
Delvay is so good at storytelling people that it even convinces the entrepreneur Richie Notar (one of the founders of Nobu so to speak), the real estate developer Aby Rosen and the hotelier Andrè Balasz to enter into partnership with her to build the ambitious project of a cultural center that even bears her name, la Anna Delvey Foundation.
Julia Garner and Katie Lowes in “Inventing Anna”. (Netflix)
The bluff
The continuous bleeding of money from Anna’s hands brings out, one after the other, the huge amount of debt that the girl has contracted by triangulating loans on three banks. Thanks to the trust granted to him by a first bank he was in fact able to obtain loans from a second bank and then to deposit the money in yet another but, in response to the request for payment by the hotel of a 62 thousand dollarsthe game is over.
The elusive curator of the family affairs of which he brings as proof of promissory note emails made out to a Swiss bankclearly does not exist and its insolvency becomes more and more evident.
Until the friends, who at first always covered the costs of his accounts as a gesture of gratitude, slowly they begin to download and finally, no New York hotel accepts a promise to pay by wire transfer in lieu of a working credit card.
The trial and conviction
The debts contracted by Anna touch the astronomical figure of 270 thousand dollars, amount for which she was called to answer in the trial for fraud and embezzlementwhich ended in 2019 with a conviction that he could have kept her behind bars for 12 years and instead he saw her as a recluse for less than two.
Exit for good behavior Anna Delvay / Sorokin first picked up hers Instagram profiletelling his followers, which they now have passed the hundredhow stressful, but also useful in terms of a social experiment, her time spent in prison was for her.
Fun fact: during the trial it was also opened @annadelveycourtlooks an Instagram page that reviewed i look of the Sorokin in court. A barrel of Balenciaga And Alaia accumulated over the years were clearly noteworthy.
Inventing Anna: Did Sorokin make it?
As in the case of the Tinder scammerwho posing as a millionaire stole mind-boggling figures from women he knew on the dating app and who, after his arrest he returned to a successful life after allAnna does not seem to want to abandon thataura of glamor that it had built in the New York years.
The story, after all, has attracted attention of none other than Shonda Rhimes (Scandal And Grey’s Anatomy) and Netflix therefore not exactly the first unprepared, and landed on the streaming platform on February 11 in the form of a mini series: Inventing Annain fact, where the fake heiress is interpreted by Julia Garner. The hype and our attention, after all, Anna Sorokin got them anyway.
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