So why did Delvey do it? For somebody who stole an estimated $275,000 from friends, businesses and hotels, how could this not be all about cold, hard cash? She insists when we speak, ‘it was never about money.’ I’ll try to explain what I think she means. One of Delvey’s friends was left over $60,000 out of pocket. She tells me that she’s trying not to ‘glamorise the bad act itself,’ especially since she has faced criticism for her seeming lack of remorse. ‘I was always focused on turning it around and making something out of it.’ Still, there’s a degree of repentance. Delvey doesn’t want to dwell on these hardships: ‘There are many people that go through situations and events of adversity,’ she tells me. Just six weeks after her early release for good behaviour, Delvey was taken back to jail after ICE took her into custody. Anna turned up and was arrested for second-degree grand larceny, theft of services and first-degree attempted grand larceny. Rachel alerted the police and lured Delvey to her catastrophic downfall under the pretence that the pair were going for a nice lunch. After a few days, the hotel staff alerted the group that they weren’t able to charge Delvey’s credit card, at which point she convinced her friend Rachel DeLoache Williams to pay the $62,000 bill, promising to reimburse her when they returned to New York. It was all going swimmingly until she invited three friends on an ‘all-expenses-paid’ trip to Marrakesh in May 2017. To recap, briefly: Delvey conned her way into New York society and managed to defraud hotels, banks and her wealthy circle of marks.
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‘That way it matches everything I wear.’ĭelvey was released from jail in February 2021, after serving just under four years for a scandalous series of crimes. I comment that the black device is pretty plain-looking, and that she could decorate it to go with different outfits. As part of Delvey’s ongoing battle with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for overstaying her visa, she is now trapped in her apartment 24 hours a day, monitored through an electronic ankle tag.
It’s a surprisingly positive outlook from somebody unable to leave her home. ‘Look what I managed to get out of it,’ she tells me with a much more believable German twang than her Netflix character’s. And after doing time, earning global notoriety and under house arrest in a tiny apartment in Manhattan’s East Village, Anna Delvey insists she has become everything she has ever dreamed of. But, after nearly four years in prison, that Anna appears to be a thing of the past - if she ever really existed. The Netflix version is consumed by the fantasy of who she wants to be, unable to see who she really is. That Anna demands VIP treatment and calls herself an icon and a legend. If you’ve seen the extravagant Delvey portrayed by Julia Garner in Netflix’s Inventing Anna, you know about the fake heiress who infiltrated New York’s rich set, flitting between boutique hotels with a bizarre ‘German’ accent and Chanel sunglasses bigger than her skull. If you’ve read anything about her, you probably think her plan was all about money to extract millions of dollars from unwitting marks before knocking them to the sidewalk in her hurry to zoom around in private jets with other brainless socialites. Everything is going according to Anna Delvey’s plan.
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