There are, however, many real events depicted in the series, and while some names and identifying features have been changed, the story of Anna Sorokin/Anna Delvey-at least according to Pressler’s article-shares verisimilitude with the public accounts of those she knew. Perhaps because the series also relies on such reporting, an opening title screen makes clear the veracity of the drama: “This whole story is completely true, except for the parts that are totally made up.” That’s certainly one way to avoid defamation lawsuits. She was arrested in October 2017.īecause the article relies mainly on accounts given by Sorokin’s acquaintances, and because the interviews with Sorokin-including phone calls and “several” visits to Rikers over the course of three months-occurred before trial, the details about her life remain uncertain. For nearly an entire year, Delvey led them on. It includes interviews with New York acquaintances of Sorokin, several of whom had lent her money at one time, assuming the German heiress and trust fund kid Sorokin presented herself as would be able to pay them back. The New York story ran almost a year before Sorokin went to trial. (As in the series, Sorokin rejected a plea bargain shortly thereafter.) Sorokin was then awaiting trial for charges of theft of service and grand larceny. The opening moments of the series dramatizes those first Rikers Island meetings between Sorokin and Pressler-whose character is named Vivian Kent in the series and works for Manhattan (the series' stand-in for New York Magazine). Serious or not, Sorokin’s story soon became entertainment fodder it is now the basis of Inventing Anna, Netflix’s latest true crime drama series. “I had dinners, but they were work dinners,” she told writer Jessica Pressler. Sorokin insisted instead that she was trying to build something, a business. New York media had called her a “wannabe socialite” and a “greedy idiot”-a fraud who rubbed shoulders with the city’s rich and powerful simply to go shopping. When Anna Sorokin, known to those she swindled as Anna Delvey, spoke with New York Magazine from Rikers Island prison in late 2017, she disavowed her public epithets. The following contains spoilers for Inventing Anna.
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