And makes her victims look like rubes.
You may or not know about Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey, but she’s a convicted con artist who managed to convince numerous people, from Joe Blow on the street to the likes of Martin Shkreli that she was a German heiress primed to inherit a massive fortune. Well, Netflix paid her $320,000 for her story. And the Shonda Rimes created and produced Inventing Anna, which paints her rather sympathetically, is the result. And, while it’s hard to imagine Shkreli cares, several of her victims probably do.
For example, Rachel Williams, who Sorokin managed to take to the cleaners to the tune of $62,000, and whose writing for Vanity Fair exposed Sorokin’s crimes to a vast audience. Needless to say, the show didn’t treat her all that well. As a matter of fact, it seems to go out of its way to shit on her, based on its description of her character:
“a natural-born follower whose blind worship of Anna almost destroys her job, her credit, and her life. But while her relationship with Anna is her greatest regret, the woman she becomes because of Anna may be Anna’s greatest creation.”
Jesus. To put it bluntly, because I’ve never seen a Shonda Rimes show I like, the trailer is… difficult to get through. Mostly because every line of dialog is pain.
The flipside is that Sorokin is clearly one hell of a con artist. Probably up there with the likes of Anthony Gignac. Which is likely why, when asked by the BBC after it came out how much Netflix paid her in the process of making this crapfest whether crime pays, she responded: “In a way, it did.”
Well, yeah, it did. Minus whatever amount of that had to go to restitution for her victims.
Source: BoingBoing
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