![]() ![]() “Definitely not in public or in front of strangers.” (If anything, she hides behind her cutting humor when she’s uncomfortable, I’ve noticed she laughs-often at herself.) Her frailty is depicted in buckets of tears, but “I don’t really cry that much,” Sorokin said. She didn’t consider herself as entitled, demanding, or shameless as she is onscreen. “I speak four languages-in three voices.” Netflix Anna claims to have a photographic memory and to speak seven languages. When not incarcerated, both Annas are glued to their phones: scrolling through Instagram, looking up the next hot place-encyclopedic reels of who’s who and what’s what. She would be content to leave Netflix Anna alone. “It’s tempting to try to correct the narrative, but I’m trying to resist because that was never the point of the show,” Sorokin said after watching several scenes with me. While other Netflix consultants were sometimes on-set, from jail, Sorokin wrote out and recorded answers to questions about her life. “Can you imagine? Who would say that?” (A careful study of character and with ample supply of $100 tips and insinuation, Sorokin could easily lead them to her desired conclusion.) “I never told anyone I was a German heiress,” Sorokin, who is originally from Russia, told me the first time we spoke at Rikers years ago. The thing about Anna Delvey-both the real one and the Netflix version-is that people saw who they wanted to see. Here’s a look at the real people behind the characters in Anna’s world-some as they see themselves, others as they presented themselves in court, and still others as Sorokin, in a series of calls from Orange County Correctional Facility in Goshen, New York, describes them. All the while, she was bilking banks and fleecing friends to finance the illusion…and that’s the true story, as I reported it from a Manhattan courtroom in 2019. And in the new Netflix series by Shonda Rhimes, hardly anyone is left standing.įor years, a New York socialite with a hard-to-place accent introduced herself to Manhattan’s elite as Anna Delvey: a young businesswoman who became the fiction she created by convincing the right (wealthy, powerful) people that’s who she already was. For a show named after one person, Inventing Anna is really a story about many others, or rather, the effect con artist Anna Sorokin had on them. ![]()
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