the newest hit from shonda rhimes on
netflix is inventing anna which tells
the true story of anna sorokin who under
the name anna delvey scammed her way
through new york city posing as a
socialite to steal millions of dollars
as anna is on trial for her various
scams and frauds manhattan magazine
reporter vivian begins looking into
anna's story and sees it as an
opportunity to revitalize her career
vivian faces a lot of opposition from
her bosses at work who'd rather her
cover other timelier stories and her
husband jack would rather vivian take a
step back from her hectic and stressful
job to focus on her pregnancy but vivian
does receive support from manhattan
magazine senior writers who have been
pushed aside to a back corner of the
office known as scriberia soon vivian is
teaming up with anna's lawyer todd and
interviewing anna and her various
friends and acquaintances to discover
the truth behind this mystery woman
early in her arrival to america anna
links up with chase inventor of an app
called wake that purports to track your
dream data anna claims to have a large
family trust fund which appeals to chase
who begins whisking anna away on
romantic getaways chase's app is a bit
of a scam itself so he and anna make for
a perfect pairing as they try to
manipulate their way up the social
ladder to secure investors but anna
proves herself much more socially savvy
and eventually cuts things off with
chase to pursue her own vision the anna
delvey foundation an exclusive social
club for artists and patrons in new york
city anna sets her sights on a massive
property to house her foundation that
comes with a 40 million dollar price tag
so she next sets her sights on bank of
america lawyer allen reed to help secure
a loan she quickly charms allen and
fakes a phone call as a family business
associate to confirm her false claims of
a vast fortune with alan's support
investment company fortress comes on
board to loan anna the 40 million
dollars contingent on their own
investigator traveling to germany to
personally confirm anna's supposed
assets during anna's various exploits
and social climbing she also makes some
friends while staying at a nice hotel
anna befriends the concierge neff who
gets anna's name on exclusive social
databases in exchange for large tips
that neff puts towards funding her dream
film project and also crosses paths with
some other real-life scammers including
billy mcfarland who you may recognize
from the infamous fire festival scandal
and martin shkreli who you might
remember as the infamous farmer bro that
jacked up the prices of prescription
drugs on a getaway trip with friends
casey and rachel anna begins to unravel
knowing that fortress looking into her
finances would bring down her entire
life when anna can't pay the bill on the
lavish trip rachel is forced to put the
entire 62 thousand dollar expense on her
company credit card when anna fails to
pay rachel back rachel betrays anna and
turns her over to the authorities who
arrest her for various financial crimes
and this catches us up to the present
day story when rachel publishes her own
story in vanity fair recounting her
experience with anna vivian is forced to
expedite her own story publishing her
investigative piece the same day she
gives birth to her daughter vivian and
todd's investigation into anna delphi
has become a bit of an obsession putting
a strain on both of their marriages
while on trial anna's main goal is
spectacle she wants a media frenzy
outside the courtroom and inside the
courtroom she wants validations that her
dreams for the anna delvey foundation
had almost come to fruition neff still a
loyal friend to anna helps achieve the
social media buzz anna desired but in
todd's defensive anna he throws her
aspirations for adf under the bus
despite his best efforts anna is
convicted of 13 out of 15 charges facing
4-12 years in prison vivian's piece on
anna is a massive success but vivian
can't help but see the court's verdict
as a massive defeat and makes note of
the countless men who have done much
worse things than anna delvey and
suffered little to no consequences in
real life vivian is based on reporter
jessica pressler who now works as a
writer for vanity fair and has a new
book about anna delvey titled bad
influence set to be published soon
rachel williams had her own book on anna
delvey published titled my friend anna
todd spodak is now the defender of
choice four frosters in new york neff
moved to los angeles to pursue her film
career casey duke is a celebrity trainer
who counts dakota johnson and bb rexa as
some of her clients and as for anna
delvey while she was released from
prison in february 2021 but arrested
again by ice a month later for
overstaying her visa she is currently in
custody awaiting deportation back to
germany
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