![]() While the series is lightly fictionalised - a few characters are composites, some incidents made up - all the best and least believable parts are true. She used a voice distortion app and a burner phone to impersonate her “family banker,” an apparently fictitious German. Best of all, Delvey came close to convincing major hedge funds and banks to invest millions of dollars in her start-up, an exclusive international art space and social club (think Soho House plus art and culture, or Fotografiska without the proles). As Anna Delvey, she successfully created a moneyed vibe. ![]() Real finance capitalists thought they’d make money off her (and some thought they’d become even richer by marrying her). Rich people liked her because she seemed to have social capital. As Pressler noted in her New York magazine article, Anna Sorokin wasn’t unusually pretty, charming, or even nice. She had a sense of entitlement without the title. She stays in some of New York’s fanciest hotels without paying. She uses a real heiress’s yacht without permission. The even bigger source of delight here, however, is Anna Delvey’s chutzpah. Inventing Anna features some of the best clothes ever seen in a TV series, better even than Sex and the City. She was even taken seriously as a client by major banks and hedge funds, including a fund called Fortress. Inventing Anna, a lightly fictionalised TV series based on Jessica Pressler’s long New York magazine cover story, chronicles the rise and fall of Anna Delvey, née Anna Sorokin, a young middle-class, Russian-born woman who pretended to be a German heiress and lived large for about four years, hobnobbing with Manhattan’s rich and famous. The moment captures instantly the amusement and admiration behind the public response to this real-life story. Sorokin was detained for a time until ICE released her on house arrest in October 2022.In the Netflix series Inventing Anna, just after a magazine publishes the dramatic story of Anna Sorokin’s impressive fraud, a woman walks out of a store wearing a T-shirt that says “Fake German Heiress.” Because who wouldn’t want to be a fake German heiress? She was released on parole in early 2021 before ICE took her into custody for overstaying her visa. Sorokin was convicted of grand larceny and theft in 2019 and sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison, including time already served while awaiting trial. She is breaking her story in her own words and we believe she will defy viewers’ expectations.”Īs for who some of her dream guests would be, Sorokin revealed a few to Page Six, mentioning Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Madonna, Serbian artist Marina Abramovic, Elon Musk, and The Big Short author and journalist Michael Lewis, among others. Delvey’s Dinner Club will reveal the actual woman behind everything we’ve read and watched about Anna. We’re all desperate to know who Anna really is. White commented on the upcoming project as well, stating, "It’s often said the best way to get to know someone is to share a meal with them. Sorokin is teaming up with ex-president of the Food Network Courtney White and her media company Butternut. I’m grateful for the opportunity to work with Wheelhouse and Butternut to bring my vision to a wider audience and share a glimpse of the real Anna Delvey.” The 32-year-old said in a statement: "There’s nothing like the experience of bringing together a curated group of friends to share life stories and enjoy a great culinary experience. Delvey's Dinner Club will reportedly give viewers an inside look as Sorokin "reinvents herself and her name."
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