Anna Sorokin, Fake Heiress & Subject Of ‘Inventing Anna’, Docuseries In The Works From Bunim/Murray Productions

the 9-episode series tells the story of the fake German (really Russian) heiress named Anna, who swooped into Manhattan in 2014 and set about establishing herself as an ‘It’ girl with big business plans and a huge trust fund. The trust fund did not exist, month long stays at various swanky hotels were never paid, and somehow, the check — or in this case, the German wire transfer — was always in the mail.In reality, she was a Russian-born girl named Anna Sorokin, who moved to Germany as a teen.

Julia Fox and Anna Delvey are two viral sensations of 2022 and apparently, they are friends. Kanye West’s former muse and the fraudster are even working on a secret project together.

Laverne Cox is revealing what Kacy Duke said to her after watching her performance in Inventing Anna.

Anna Delvey is continuing to rack up numbers.

Inventing Anna, the based on the viral New York magazine article about con woman Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, I thought, “That was fun. I’m sure other people will feel the same, because I understand such things.” After all, Hustlers, the 2019 movie based on another New York magazine feature (written by Jessica Pressler, who also covered Delvey) had been . And scammers like Elizabeth Holmes, Billy McFarland (the Fyre Fest guy, who is a minor character in the show), and the Operation Varsity Blues parents were all hot topics.

Anna Sorokin, the real person who used to go by Anna Delvey and became the inspiration for Netflix’s Inventing Anna series, is speaking out in a lengthy message about her former friend Rachel DeLoache Williams.

Inventing Anna is the latest Netflix series to have us gripped to our TV screens.The new binge-worthy series tells the story of Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, who defrauded New York’s elite by pretending to be a German heiress. She posed as a heiress who hailed from Europe with a trust fund of $60 million (£44million), and lived a life of luxury thanks to her fake persona.

trashy new Netflix series “Inventing Anna.” The show focuses on the infamous Anna Sorokin (aka Anna Delvey), who was sent to the clink in 2019 for remorselessly defrauding friends, banks and hotels out of a total of $275,000 by pretending to be a wealthy German woman.Shonda seems to think that deep down the deranged Sorokin wasn’t a fabulist who lied with abandon and cruelly used everyone she met at all. No! She was a modern-day Gloria Steinem who was held back by our inhospitable world of horrible men.

Inventing Anna subject Anna Sorokin, who pretended to be a German heiress named Anna Delvey, was reportedly paid $320,000 for the rights to her life story, but she didn’t get to keep all of that money from Netflix.

curiously accented faux socialite Anna Delvey, née Sorokin, managed to swindle hotels, banks, investors and many a jetsetter into believing she was an entrepreneurial German heiress on a mission to build a cultural arts mecca. In reality, she is the Russian-born daughter of a truck driver whose ambitions exceeded her means. Sorokin lived the high life before being convicted of grand larceny and serving time in prison.

The new series Inventing Anna is currently number one on Netflix and fans want to know more about the real-life people who inspired the characters.

Inventing Anna is TV creator Shonda Rhimes‘ second series as part of her Netflix deal and she hired a lot of her friends for the new show.

Wyatte Grantham-Philips editorWhen bringing a “whole story [that] is completely true, except for all the parts that are totally made up” to life, “Inventing Anna” costume designers Lyn Paolo and Laura Frecon had to dive into Instagram.“The very beginning of the project was actually more about research and matching everything that the real Anna wore for her Instagram — which sort of became our Greek chorus,” Paolo told Variety. “And that was extensive research… Even before we got into the fashion elements, we had to recreate that whole Instagram wall, and also all of the court looks.”“Inventing Anna” follows faux-heiress Anna Delvey (née Anna Sorokin) (Julia Garner) as she awaits trial for grand larceny and theft of services.

Shonda Rhimes’ limited Netflix series about Anna Delvey above the typical true-crime drama is the designer fashions the characters wear onscreen. Like, which Delvey watched to learn English, and, directed by David Frankel, who helms two of the series’ episodes, is as much about the fashion as it is about a young woman who pretended to be a German heiress to con her way through the rich and elite of New York City.

Inventing Anna subject Anna Sorokin is set to receive her own docuseries courtesy of Bunim/Murray Productions.The fake heiress who conned banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars will be the main focus of a new project, after Shonda Rhimes’ scripted Netflix series starring Julia Garner aired last week.Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, is currently being held in detention by immigration authorities as she awaits the verdict after overstaying her visa. She was sentenced in 2019 and released in 2021, for the crimes portrayed in Inventing Anna.The new series is set to “begin where Inventing Anna” ends, reports Deadline.“It will follow the fast-moving events as her future changes day-to-day.

No thank you. Playing the faux German heiress Anna Delvey on Inventing Anna has made star Julia Garner realize that fame is often more trouble than it’s worth.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentTwenty years ago, “Crossroads” hit theaters. The first feature film to star Britney Spears, the teenage road trip movie was panned by critics, but loved by audiences.

“Inventing Anna” may be based on true events, but it heightened the drama according to Jessica Pressler.

Only one degree separates fraudster Anna Sorokin from entertainment megastar Kanye West.

they were friends?“Fake heiress” Anna Sorokin has revealed she’s pals with Kanye West’s ex Julia Fox — and teased that they’re even working on a top-secret project together. The Russian-born fraudster made the surprise announcement during an interview with the New York Times on Monday as she remains behind bars awaiting deportation to Europe after serving two years in prison for fraud.

, celebrity trainer Kacy Duke is sharing how she really feels about the Netflix series. Portrayed by Laverne Cox, Duke was one of the many people sucked in and then conned by Anna Delvey, aka the “Fake German Heiress” convicted of scamming some of New York’s elite, high-end hotels and restaurants and banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. “Wow, what a ride it’s been,” Duke tells ET’s Lauren Zima after watching all nine episodes of the binge-worthy.

Inventing Anna sees Ozark star Garner playing fraudster Anna Delvey – whose real name is Anna Sorokin – in a new Netflix series about her life.The show tells the true story of how Sorokin scammed banks, businesses and acquaintances out of money under the fake guise of her being a wealthy German heiress.In 2019, she was convicted of crimes including grand larceny, and sentenced to four to 12 years in prison. She was initially released in 2021, but was then taken back into custody for violating the terms of her visa.Earlier this month Sorokin wrote an open letter about her feelings on the show, to which Garner has now responded.In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, Garner said: “I respect whatever Anna does in terms of whether she wants to watch the show or doesn’t want to watch the show.“That’s her choice and that’s totally fine.

Inventing Anna, while —the Netflix series on which he played Bash—had just aired its third season and was scheduled to begin filming its fourth and final one later in the spring. Fast forward to the present day: After pandemic-related delays, Inventing Anna is finally available to stream on Netflix, but GLOW's fourth season frustratingly .On the brighter side, Lowell has since had a memorable turn in the Oscar-winning film (as Al Monroe) and is currently starring as Uber driver Jesse opposite Hilary Duff in .

Netflix series Inventing Anna.The series, which was released last Friday (February 11), chronicles the rise and fall of scammer Anna Delvey (aka Anna Sorokin) who is played by Ozark star Julia Garner.Williams who is a journalist played by Katie Lowes, makes an appearance in episode six of the series, as the show goes on to document a disastrous holiday that the real-life Williams went on with Sorokin in 2017.The journalist wrote in detail about her trip to Marrakesh in a 2018 article for Vanity Fair titled ‘My Bright-Lights Misadventure With A Magician Of Manhattan‘ and in a 2019 book titled My Friend Anna.She has since responded to her portrayal in the series in an article for Time Magazine in which she clarified that she “was not involved with the show”.Williams explained that she “expected there would be times when the dramatisation of my experience would make me uncomfortable” and added she “understood that stepping into the spotlight came with certain risks”.“I would only have so much control over how I was portrayed,” she wrote but added that “this Netflix description felt shocking”.She went on to quote one section of her character’s description which states that “the woman she becomes because of Anna” and said that these “seven little words in one fell swoop stripped me of my agency, accomplishments, and truth”.Williams added: “Were we meant to believe that the woman I had become was not on account of the parents who raised me, the love I shared with family and friends, my own efforts or personal growth, but because of Anna?” As reflected in Inventing Anna, the journalist was pressured into footing the bill for the lavish holiday when Sorokin said she was experiencing trouble with her bank.

Critics might have found fault with Shondra Rhimes‘ admittedly bloated Anna Delvey miniseries “Inventing Anna,” but after early screenings, it was obvious to any member of the media it was going to be a smash. That prediction has easily come to pass with the limited series landing at the top spot of the streaming service the entire weekend.

Anna Sorokin aka Anna Delvey, the fake German heiress, was paid a hefty sum of money from Netflix for her story in a Shonda Rhimes produced series titled, . 

Anna Chlumsky is getting candid about her career.

Inventing Anna is , but perhaps none as heart-pounding and relatable as episode six, which takes place in Marrakech at the ultra luxurious . In the episode, Anna Delvey—who scammed nearly everyone in her path by pretending to be an heiress from Germany—takes “friends” Rachel, Kacy, and Noah to Morocco for a swanky getaway.

Netflix is releasing a brand-new drama for February about the life of a German heiress who stole the hearts of many of New York’s socialites.

Anna Delvey, who swindled New York’s elite out of hundreds of thousands of dollars  – if only the show had faith in its own premise. Now streaming on Netflix, “Inventing Anna” is based on a viral 2018 New York Magazine article about Delvey (nee Sorokin), 31 — Russian-born and raised in Germany — who defrauded banks, hotels and acquaintances while posing as a trust-fund heiress in New York between 2013-2017. She was convicted for multiple accounts of grand larceny, indicted in 2017 and incarcerated from 2019-2021. Helmed by Shonda Rhimes and starring Julia Garner (“Ozark”) — a skilled actress who seems to have been given bad directing to hide behind a distracting marble-mouthed accent to play Delvey — “Inventing Anna” is a bloated affair, with episodes regularly clocking in at over an hour, which feels punishing.

With viewers around the world watching Netflix’s Inventing Anna, it’s worth taking a glance at what Anna Delvey’s net worth really looks like today—and how much she stole while pretending to be an heiress in New York City for years.

, Arian Moayed has joined another high-profile series,, creator Shonda Rhimes’ true-crime drama about Anna Delvey, the convicted fraudster popularly known as the Fake German Heiress. Moayed, the 41-year-old actor who was also recently seen in and, talks to ET about his scene-stealing performance as Delvey’s no-nonsense lawyer, Todd Spodek, and having to perform his big courtroom scenes in front of his real-life counterpart.Initially hired when Delvey, portrayed here by Julia Garner, was first arrested for not paying for an outstanding hotel bill, Spodek is eventually tasked with defending her against multiple larceny charges related to her attempt to secure a $20 million loan for her elite club, the Anna Delvey Foundation (ADF), as well as sticking one of her friends with a $60,000 bill after failing to pay for their lavish trip to Morocco. Unlike members of New York society, the city’s high-end hotels and restaurants, or even the bank executives who fall under the guise of this German heiress, her lawyer was not enchanted by any of that.

Inventing Anna, about socialite scammer Anna Delvey. In the episode, written by Shondaland vet , Delvey takes her “friends,” Kacy Duke (Cox), a celebrity fitness trainer and life coach, as well as magazine photo editor Rachel (Katie Lowes) and videographer Noah (Chris Lowell) to Morocco under the guise that she has to travel abroad for visa purposes. They decide to capture footage for her burgeoning social arts club back in New York along the way—but unbeknownst to everyone, Delvey can't pay for any of it. Kacy is the first to sense that something is amiss. “These are palatial digs, you know? This is incredible,” Cox says as we sit down on one of the many plush couches inside the architecturally stunning Moroccan abode.

By In Inventing Anna, aspiring filmmaker/New York City hotel concierge Neff Davis controls access to the hottest restaurants, clubs, and event spaces for a few hundred hotel guests at any given time. But it's who has control over Neff every time she slides a $100 bill across her desk.

Netflix show about her, she has a ridiculous tech entrepreneur boyfriend.On the series, which stars Julia Garner in the title role and is out Friday, Anna’s on-screen love interest is Chase Sikorski (Saamer Usmani, “Succession”). Chase is introduced to the audience in episode 2, when he’s giving a Ted Talk about the potential to “cloud source” your dreams.