When Anna does have money, she spends lavishly and generously, tipping staff $100 bills and buying friends designer gowns. Her biggest victims are supremely wealthy: vast, faceless corporations and luxury hoteliers. We also covertly rejoice in Anna’s fraudulence because her marks simply are unlikeable. Julia Garner’s depiction of the fraudster is captivating: despite being rude, unforgiving and unrepentant, Anna is not unlikeable: she’s so excessive, extravagant and exaggerated in her self-created role as conceited heiress, she’s more like Selling Sunset’s Christine Quinn: a parody of the ultimate #girlboss rather than a femme fatale who relies on her feminine wiles to seduce her prey. Inventing Anna’s producer Shonda Rhimes certainly encourages viewers to root for Anna’s ruthlessness as her master plan unfolds. This perceived intelligence and ability to world-build gives grifters a wider space to be romanticised.
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Pressler is a producer on the series and an inspiration for the character of Vivian, while Netflix is reported to have paid Sorokin $320,000 for the rights to her story.Īmanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes in the forthcoming The Dropout / HULU Her story was brought to the wider public by journalist Jessica Pressler’s sensational feature in The Cut in 2018, and afforded her instant notoriety. Anna Delvey, real name Anna Sorokin, was a fake ‘heiress’ who smoothly navigated her way through the upper echelons of Manhattan society, conning everyone she met. It does make you wonder how someone so unpleasant could have spent years sweet-talking New York’s financial elite into parting with hundreds of thousands of dollars by means of nothing more than a fancy wardrobe and a hazy story about funds “tied up” in trust. Peering at Vivian from behind a pair of thick black Celine frames, she asks: “Are you pregnant or are you just so very fat?” After tearfully confessing she’s done “nothing wrong” to Vivian, a Manhattan magazine journalist desperate to profile the shameless scam artist as she awaits trial, Anna has just one final question for her before she agrees to the exclusive interview.
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