Ozark‘s Julia Garner was cast in the titular role.
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The Netflix limited series based on the original article will explore how the European managed to get away with her get-rich scheme for so long - and how she got caught. In the end, she swindled her friends and New York businesses out of a total of $275,000 during a 10-month spree. The con artist, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, looked to secure loans for a lavish art club she was looking to open. In 2018, New York magazine published an article about the Russia native, who posed as a rich German heiress with a $67 million trust fund in the mid-2010s in order to invade the wealthiest corners of the city. That really sends you into a ricochet of memories, looking back trying to look for all the signs you missed.Stranger than fiction! The Netflix series Inventing Anna is centered on Anna Delvey, an infamous scammer who tricked New York City’s elite out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Her entire identity had been a complete sham. Having been betrayed by someone I trusted - and to have been betrayed in a huge way.
“As I’ve said one too many times, this is the hardest thing I’ve gone through - the betrayal as much as the money. In the interview, Williams alludes to the negative consequences of her relationship with Sorokin. Williams didn’t get into any specific details over what the Netflix series got right or wrong, but she explained that the narrative is “designed to create empathy for a character who lacks it” and called the whole project “very problematic.” Plus, it affected real-time criminal-justice proceedings.” I think that’s really dangerous territory. “That disclaimer gives the show enough credibility so that people can believe more easily. “I think it’s worth exploring at what point a half-truth is more dangerous than a lie,” says Williams in the interview. “This story is completely true, except for all the parts that aren’t,” reads a disclaimer in the show itself. In a recent Insider essay while in ICE custody in New York, she said she doesn’t plan on watching the series.Īccording to Williams, the Netflix series blurs fact and fiction in a way that is concerning.
She was released in 2021 after serving under four years, but was then taken back into custody for overstaying her visa. You watch the spectacle, but you’re not paying attention to what’s being marketed.”Īmong Sorokin’s eight crimes, she was convicted in 2019 of second-degree grand larceny and first-degree attempted grand larceny, and sentenced to a four to 12-year prison term. “I think promoting this whole narrative and celebrating a sociopathic, narcissistic, proven criminal is wrong,” Williams told Vanity Fair. “Having had a front-row seat to for far too long, I’ve studied the way a con works more than anybody needs to.
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But more broadly, Williams raised concerns about the narrative itself. “The fact that she financed a private criminal defense attorney, and chose to spend the money that way, doesn’t mean it wasn’t money,” she told the outlet. According to Vanity Fair, Netflix paid Sorokin $320,000 for her life rights, which meant that she profited from her story, as Williams references ( The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Netflix for comment).
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