

She ultimately scammed her friends and New York businesses out of a total of $275,000. If some cast members of Inventing Anna look familiar to you eagle-eyed Shondaland viewers, well, that’s because they are. Sorokin claimed to be on a fast track to a $67 million trust fund, but in reality, she hailed from a lower-middle-class family from Russia. What's it about?īased on Jessica Pressler's 2018 New York article "How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People," Inventing Anna will chronicle the real-life story of Sorokin, a 28-year-old who posed as a German heiress by the name of Anna Delvey and invaded the New York social scene sometime in the mid-2010s. Her goal, she claims, is to set up the Anna Delvey.
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Despite Julia Garner, the series lacks focus. The Netflix series, titled Inventing Anna, comes from Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and Bridgerton creator Shonda Rhimes, so we can expect a program with equal amounts of intelligence and allure. Netflix's 'Inventing Anna' is the first show Shonda Rhimes has made for the streaming service. The Hollywood Reporter first revealed that Garner will take on the role of Sorokin, the scammer who conned Manhattan socialites out of thousands of dollars using the name Anna Delvey, and who became the subject of a hugely popular New York Magazine article in 2018.

Sure, the New York con-woman known as Anna Delvey was eventually unveiled as Anna Sorokin-but Emmy winner Julia Garner just might be able to convince us she's really Anna Delvey.
