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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 ...
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.’
- 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...
Feb 12, 2022 · A reporter who has followed the scammer Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey, for years watched the new Netflix series about the scandal. The reporter has thoughts. Julia Garner plays the con artist ...
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.
Feb 15, 2022 · Jessica Pressler Vivian Kent Anna Delvey. When asked whether she lent Sorokin clothes for the trial in real life, Pressler said: “Yes, but it wasn’t a fraught situation for me the way it was ...
Mar 5, 2022 · Pressler is a journalist, graduate of Temple University and a producer of Inventing Anna. In 2018, New York Magazine published her viral article “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party ...
