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East 11 of February finally premiered the long-awaited series of Netflix “Inventing Anna”, which tells the story of a Russian swindler who pretended to be the millionaire Anna Delvey, with Julia Garner and Anna Chlumsky as the protagonists.
The series, based on the article ‘How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People’ which was published by Pressler in the New York Times Magazine at 2019, has 10 chapters that tell the story of rise and hard fall of a woman who always dreamed of having a high social status.
But how serious were Anna’s events that led her to have her own series on Netflix? Keep reading here we tell you.
The true story that inspired ‘Inventing Anna’
The series, which has caused a stir just a few hours after it premiered on the platform, is based on a true story, that of Anna Delvey.
Anna Delvey is a woman of Russian-German origin who moved to New York in 2013, whose real last name is Sorokin, but changed it to pretend to be a German heiress, this in an attempt to rub shoulders with the elite from ‘the city that never sleeps’.
For several years, the young woman managed to make her way among wealthy people in New York with the idea of establishing an art foundation, for which he needed investors. While selling the idea of her foundation, Anna entered the wealthy social circles, scamming businessmen and “friends” from whom he borrowed money, trips, hotels or food in expensive places that he never paid.
Within Anna’s history there are records with false credit cards in luxury hotels and loans to banks that she never paid, to name a few. However, he began to raise suspicions by accumulating debts in several establishments, being the Beekman and W New York Union Square hotels the ones that filed charges against him under the crime of “theft of services”.
It is known that Anna Sorokin scammed banks, companies and people with money for more than 275 thousand dollars between the years 2016 and 2017, the latter being the one in which she was eventually detained during an undercover operation while staying at Passages Malibu Rehabilitation Center.
Two years later, the young woman was sentenced to between 4 and 12 years in prison pled guilty to charges of grand theft in the second degree, attempted grand theft and theft of services. In addition, he had to pay a fine of 11 thousand dollars, as well as a compensation for the scams of 199 One thousand dollars.
To the surprise of many, Sorokin was released in February 2021, but a month later she was arrested again for staying longer time in the United States than your visa allowed.
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