New Netflix drama Inventing Anna stars Julia Garner as Anna Delvey, or Anna Sorokin, a young woman who invented a fake socialite persona to scam her way to hundreds of thousands of dollars while living the high life in New York. She is currently in prison in the US awaiting deportation.
When Anna Sorokin stood trial in New York in the spring of 2019, charged with fraud after scamming hotels, banks and other members of Manhattan's elite out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, she reportedly employed the services of a stylist to ensure she looked the part., a wealthy German heiress with a taste for expensive wine, private jets and designer clothes.
Sorokin used forged bank statements to seek a loan of £16m from a bank to fund a private arts club she wanted to open in Manhattan, prosecutors said. While this was denied, she did persuade one bank to give her a loan of £74,000 - and used about £22,000 of this to cover overdue bills at the fashionable 11 Howard hotel, where she was living.
She was eventually arrested in 2017 with"not a cent to her name, as far as we can determine", prosecutor Catherine McCaw said at the time.At the end of her trial, Sorokin was found guilty by a jury of four counts of grand larceny and four counts of theft of services. Todd Spodek, Sorokin's defence attorney, told the court Sorokin had been"buying time" and always intended to settle her debts, portraying her as an ambitious entrepreneur rather than a criminal - but this characterisation was rejected by prosecutors.What has Sorokin said about Inventing Anna?
"Nearly four years in the making and hours of phone conversations and visits later, the show is based on my story and told from a journalist's perspective. And while I'm curious to see how they interpreted all the research and materials provided, I can't help but feel like an afterthought."'I wanted to see her as unfiltered as possible' - Julia Garner
"Obviously I wanted to ask Anna certain questions, but you also want to feel it out because they're sensitive questions and... you don't want to push things too much. But I kind of anticipated that she wasn't going to give the answer to certain questions just because Anna is such a private person and doesn't give all of the information about herself in a way. But I really wasn't expecting any answers. I just wanted to see what her energy was like and her spirit.
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