Anna Delvey explains how she’s dropping her ‘fraudster’ image after Netflix reinvented Anna
Anna Delvey may have been well-known in some New York circles over the past decade, but she rose to national and international prominence this year after her story was told in the Netflix series Inventing Anna. Delvi (real name Anna Sorokina, alias the fake German heiress) served four years in prison after being found guilty of theft and other crimes. But even when she’s stuck in an ICE detention facility fighting deportationshe is working on her next project, saying she hopes to move on from the “con artist” image she has acquired.
Topic Shonda Rhimes Netflix series released a collection of NFTs she called “Reinventing Anna”. The title is obviously inspired by the show, which starred Julia Garner as a fake socialite who lied about having a $60 million trust fund to swindle hundreds of thousands of dollars from banks and her friends. NBC News reports that Anna’s access card can be purchased with cryptocurrency and unlocks features including exclusive live streams or one-on-one phone calls with Anna Delvey. She said she hoped to overcome the reputation she had in her 20s and through Inventing Anna:
Hopefully I’ll be given a chance to put all my energy into something legal. I would like people to have the opportunity to not just fire me as a fraud, but just see what I’m going to do next.
The Netflix show may have played a role in establishing her reputation as a woman who doesn’t repay people and institutions (along with convictions), but there’s no doubt that it also boosted her fame and created a fan base for her. Anna Delvey says she receives hundreds of letters a day at the ICE facility, where she has been held since 2021 for an overstayed visa, and even several marriage proposals. According to her, her NFT venture gives her the opportunity to connect with people who are connected to her story:
I just got so much support. People, for example, really go to great lengths to contact me. But when people, for example, write you a letter when you are in prison, it takes up a lot of your time. It’s just like staying in touch with the people my story inspires.
It is very characteristic of Anna Delvi that she has found a way to keep her hustle and bustle while she waits for progress on the visa issue. She also sold artwork created in the prison and pre-trial detention center. Delvey continues to fight deportation and her lawyers are reportedly working all summer on her visa issue. Perhaps if she can stay in the country, she can give a concert The Real Housewives of New York?
Inventing Anna was created by Shonda Rhimes and inspired by the 2018 New York Magazine article “How Anna Delvey Scammed New York City Party People”, written by Jessica Pressler and published in 2018. Inventing AnnaAnna Chlumsky plays Vivian Kent, a journalist based on Pressler.
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