What is the story of Anna Delvey? Is Anna Delvey a true story?

Anna Sorokin is a Russian-born German convicted con artist and fraudster.

Between 2013 and 2017, Anna Sorokin pretended to be a wealthy German heir under the name Anna Delvey.

Anna Sorokin was arrested on October 3, 2017, in a sting operation planned by Michael McCaffrey, a police officer with the New York Police Department working with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.

In order to facilitate the “sting,” McCaffrey worked closely together with Sorokin’s former friend, Rachel Williams.

At the time, Sorokin was staying at Passages Malibu, a luxury rehab/addiction treatment facility near the beach in Los Angeles County, California.

In 2019, Anna Sorokin was convicted in New York state court of attempted grand larceny, larceny in the second degree, and theft of services, and was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison.

Netflix purchased the rights to a production relating to Sorokin and developed a television adaptation of her story entitled Inventing Anna, which was released in 2022 starring actress Julia Garner.

Netflix’s 9-episode series titled Inventing Anna, created by Shonda Rhimes and in which Sorokin was played by Julia Garner, was released in February 2022 and was the top watched program on Netflix during the first week it was released.