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  1. Jun 10, 2018 · June 10, 2018 by Jessica Pressler. It started with money, as it so often does in New York. A crisp $100 bill slipped across the smooth surface of the mid-century-inspired concierge desk at 11 Howard, the sleek new boutique hotel in Soho. Looking up, Neffatari Davis, the 25-year-old concierge, who goes by “Neff,” was surprised to see the ...

  2. Feb 14, 2022 · Jessica Pressler, the author of ‘New York’ Magazine’s original piece on Anna Delvey, discusses what is real and not about the Netflix series ‘Inventing Anna.’ And the surreal experience ...

    • Jackson Mchenry
    • Critic
    • Did Anna Delvey Steal A Jet?
    • Did Anna Delvey Know Fyre Festival Founder Billy McFarland?
    • Was Anna Delvey Friends with “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli?
    • Did Anna Delvey Hire A Professional Stylist For Her Court Appearances?

    Viewers may think “steal” is too strong a word for what Anna did. Garner’s Anna requests a private jet to take her to Omaha, NE for billionaire businessman Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Conference by pretending she was friends with the jet company’s CEO. Anna is basically able to walk onto a jet without paying, no questions asked. Sorokin real...

    In episode 4, Anna is working in a communal workspace alongside a guy named “Billy,” who is putting together a luxury music event called Fyre Festival with “Ja freaking Rule.” When he tells Anna about the name of the fest, she poo-poos the whole thing. “Fyre with a ‘Y’?” she asks as he lets her know the letter is important in numerology. “Are you s...

    In episode 5, Anna’s friend Neff—played by Alexis Floyd and inspired by Sorokin’s real friend Neffatari “Neff” Davis—recalls a rather eventful night out with the fake German heiress. She claims they partied with a Culkin (she’s not sure which one) and Martin Shkreli, better known as the “Pharma Bro,” the former drug company executive who, in 2018, ...

    In preparation for her trial, Garner’s Anna enlists a stylist friend of Neff’s to help her look like a “HBIC, but also young and coquette.” In real life, Sorokin’s personal dresser, a close friend of the real Neff, was more of a rocker at heart. In 2018, GQ revealed that Sorokin was being dressed by Anastasia Walker, a stylist whose celebrity clien...

  3. Aug 15, 2023 · New York magazine’s Jessica Pressler scored the first interview with an incarcerated Delvey, and her subsequent feature served as the basis for “Inventing Anna.”

  4. Feb 12, 2022 · Inspired by a 2018 New York magazine article by Jessica Pressler (a producer of the series), “Inventing Anna” tells the story of Sorokin’s climb through the uppermost circles of New York ...

  5. Feb 11, 2022 · It was a court photographer, Steven Hirsch, whom she met while researching the “Hustlers” story, who tipped her off to Delvey. And when the movie Hustlers was being filmed in 2019, Anna Delvey’s — or Anna Sorokin’s, actually — trial was underway, and the Inventing Anna writers’ room opened.

  6. Feb 14, 2022 · Jessica Pressler, the real-life journalist whose investigation inspired the hit Netflix series Inventing Anna, has cleared up what’s real and what’s not in the drama. The series tells the incredible true story of Anna Sorokin, a twenty-something socialite who successfully posed as a rich German heiress under the name Anna Delvey in New York ...

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