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Trust But Verify: Lessons Learned From "Inventing Anna"

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If "fake it till you make it" were a person, she would be fake German heiress Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey. Netflix's latest viewer obsession Inventing Anna, created by Shonda Rhimes...

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If "fake it till you make it" were a person, she would be fake German heiress Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey. Netflix's latest viewer obsession Inventing Anna, created by Shonda Rhimes, tells the "completely true, except for the parts that are totally made up," story of Anna's elaborate get-rich-quick schemes. The show is based on Jessica Pressler's 2018 New York magazine article "How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People." It stars Julia Garner (Ozark), Anna Clumsky (My Girl), Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black), Katie Lowes (Scandal), Arian Moaeyd (Succession), and Alexis Floyd (The Bold Type).

Between 2013 and 2017, Anna, a Russian-born, broke, 20-something woman with caviar dreams and champagne tastes, convinced luxury New York hotels, private equity firms, banks, elite law firms, and the most influential members of elite society that she had a $60 million trust fund. Throughout the show, Anna racks up tens of thousands in unpaid hotel charges,

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