Sorokin, after selling her life story rights to Netflix for $320,000, provided information to lay out the scope of her deceit.
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Pressler - a talented journalist who also wrote the story that was the basis for the movie "Hustlers" - produced "Inventing Anna" with Shonda Rhimes. Sorokin left hotel bills unpaid, took a trip to Morocco and left a friend with the $62,000 bill, and pretended to be an heiress with a $60 million fortune in order to try to convince financial institutions to loan her money for the Anna Delvey Foundation, a plan to develop a mixed-use arts and restaurant space in Manhattan.
The Netflix show, starring Julia Garner, is based on a 2018 New York magazine article by Jessica Pressler about Sorokin - who also goes by Anna Delvey - scamming Soho until it caught up with her. Though Sorokin hasn't been able to watch the show, I spoke with her about some of the scenes and broke down fact from fiction.
The introduction of every episode of "Inventing Anna" carries the same message: "This whole story is completely true, except for all the parts that are totally made up."Īs a person who covered the real-life Anna Sorokin's trial in 2019, reported on documents from her legal troubles, and interviewed her and people close to her in the years since, I can tell you: It's more true-to-life than you can imagine. Here's how it stacks up to reality, according to a journalist who covered the saga and Sorokin herself. It's based on a viral article by journalist Jessica Pressler, who also produced the show. Netflix's new show "Inventing Anna" is about scammer Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey. Julia Garner as Anna Sorokin - also known as Anna Delvey - in "Inventing Anna." Netflix
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