Delvey arrived in Manhattan in 2013 and charmed the art and fashion world, posing as a Gatsbyesque German heiress with plans to open The Anna Delvey Foundation, a private members’ arts club to compete with Soho House. On Instagram, she documented a glitzy safari of parties, fashion shows and trips on private jets. She splurged on outfits from Net-a-Porter, $400 eyelash extensions and cryotherapy, and she tipped lavishly, which made it less suspicious when she couldn’t pay the bills for dinner or needed a loan for her business. Her lies unravelled in 2017 when she was caught with unpaid hotel bills. Delvey, it turned out, was a creation; the real woman was Anna Sorokin, the Russian-born daughter of a former truck driver who emigrated to Germany, with a gift for getting other people to fork out for what she wanted.
