THE unbelievable story of Anna Delvey takes to the silver screen in Friday’s release of the long-awaited series Inventing Anna.
The Netflix series tells of Delvery’s fall from grace from a seemingly elite Manhattan socialite and fashionista to an exposed scammer with a terrible reputation after being arrested in 2018.
The 31-year-old German-born fake heiress, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, was found guilty of eight charges in 2019 including grand larceny in the second degree, attempted grand larceny, and theft of services.
Sorokin stole a total of $225kΒ from Manhattan socialites, banks, and hotels.
Sorokin, who’s played by Julia Garner in the new series, was sentenced to four to 12 years in state prison, fined $24,000, and ordered to pay restitution of about $199,000.
But the con woman was released on parole in February of last year when she temporarily went to live at a luxury hotel in New York and hired a film crew to document her post-prison life.
In her freedom, Sorokin traipsed around New York and posted on her Instagram account, where she’s reposted news articles about herself as well as posts that seem to flaunt her “wealth” to her over 152,000 followers, including videos of her eating…