Anna Delvey: The Fake Heiress Who Scammed New York | #447
4/23/20261 hr 27 min
In the summer of 2017, 26-year-old Anna Sorokin was arrested in Manhattan with a stack of unpaid hotel bills and fraudulent loan requests in her wake. She’d been calling herself Anna Delvey: an uber-wealthy German heiress. In reality? She didn’t have a penny to her (fake) name.
Armed only with an untraceable accent and a passion for fashion, Anna tried to pull the designer wool over the eyes of some of America’s biggest financial institutions, in her bid to secure multi-million-dollar loans…
And the worst part? She almost got away with it.
Was Anna a con artist? An inspirational Robin Hood in high heels? An insufferable wannabe? Or all of the above?
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First 90 secondsHannah Maguire· Host0:00
[gentle music] The elite fashion scene of New York City, where it girls and celebrities rub shoulders with designers and trust fund kids have a ball spending daddy's money like they can't get rid of it fast enough. Until April 2019, Anna Delvey moved through that world like she was born into it, stylish, aloof, and just enough of a bitch. She seemed every inch the spoiled European heiress, taking Manhattan as her personal playground. The only problem was that it was all made up, because Anna Delvey wasn't born into money, and Anna Delvey wasn't even her real name. Instead, she built an elaborate house of cards out of thin air, playing the rich girl shtick so convincingly that she fooled a whole city, almost. Because now, in a federal courthouse facing multiple charges of grand larceny and theft of services totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, time's up for the so-called fake heiress. But who is/was Anna Delvey? How did she con the New York elite and some of the biggest financial institutions in the world? Despite all of the public attention, Anna Delvey is still a mysterious character, and her true motivations are far from those we