WHEN THE CRANAUSE ANNA DELVEY

FASCINE AMERICA

It was "so easy," she told the New Yorker on May 28, from her Rikers Island cell. Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey, fascinates America.

The false heiress Anna Delvey.

By inventing a false identity, this 27-year-old Russian managed to rip off the New York high society living on credit in New York's finest hotels and fetching money from rich gullible people.

Arrived in New York, Anna Delvey is nobody. But she creates a character. His Instragram account with more than 50,000 subscribers maintains his myth. Anna lies with insult and everyone sees only fire.

In reality, Anna Sorokin is the daughter of Russian immigrants in Germany. She becomes a rich German heiress. One day, his father is a rich entrepreneur in renewable energy, another, he made a fortune in oil.

She willingly reveals that on her bank account sleep 60 million dollars. Delvey's father was a Russian diplomat, assured a friend. No, insisted another, he was a titan of the oil industry. "As far as I know, his family was the Delvey family that is important in the German antiques market," says another acquaintance, a millionaire CEO of a tech company.

The businesswoman and the club at the Soho.

And here she is staying in a popular Manhattan hotel, the 11 Howard, which distributes $ 100 tips. This Washington DC native, with her natural hair, her huge Margaret Keene eyes, and her teeth of happiness, was getting ready to start her business, a club at Soho House, she told Neff, the caretaker. the hotel became her friend. A club that would focus on art, with addresses in Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, and Dubai, and Neff became his secretary. She organized her lunches and business dinners at restaurants like Seamore's and Le Coucou, the hotel's restaurant.

One day, she brought Neff to a session with a personal life coach who works with celebrities like Dakota Johnson. After the session Anna bought a lot of sessions. "It cost, and I do not lie, 4500 dollars," says Neff.Anna paid cash

"Stop slouching on yourself," the trainer told Anna. Straighten your shoulders, arch your back from your navel to the top of your spine. You are a brilliant woman; you want to become a businesswoman. You have to tap into your own strength. "

Her club, she imagined it of 4200 square meters on six floors. The heart of the club, she said, would be "a vibrant visual arts center," with an alternating selection of pop-up stores chosen by artist Daniel Arsham, whom she knew of her time in Purple, and Exhibitions and installations by artists such as Urs Fischer, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, and Tracey Emin. For the inauguration, Anna had said, the artist Christo had agreed to wrap the fabric building.

Anna went out to collect the funds, the famous and famous friends at her dinners were gradually overwhelmed by "Goyard briefcases and Rolex, and Hublot, like those words of Jay-Z," according to Neff who, at one point, looked at No one on the other side of the table at Cuckoo to recognize the face of the infamous Martin Shkreli, who would later be convicted of securities fraud.

But did not Anna spend a lot of time working, frowning in front of her mailbox and sneering on the phone? "She was always on the phone with lawyers," said Neff, who tended to hear from his concierge desk. They were always there to soften it. Like, 'Anna, you try to increase the value of something that is only worth so much. That's not how it works. ' "

The trouble began.

The trouble came in December last, the City National refused his loan application. Things deteriorated quickly for Anna Delvey in New York. Officials at Beekman Hotel, realizing they did not have a bank card that worked in their database, and did not receive the transfer promised for its balance of 11,518.59 dollars, blocked access Anna to his room and confiscated his belongings. And the descent into hell began.

His thirst for celebrity is not yet satisfied. His story has to be adapted in series by the famous Shonda Rhimes, producer of "Gray's Anatomy" and "Scandal". The young woman is aware of this project, and would see Jennifer Lawrence or Margot Robbie in her role, she told the New Yorker.

A donor of lesson.

In New York, the "false heiress" Anna Delvey makes her trial a real fashion show. She is accused of having scammed the All-New York, incurs up to 15 years in prison. His defense weapon looks.

The opening of his trial, Wednesday, March 27, still fascinates. She was charged with ten charges and appeared wearing a black V-neck dress, a black choker, a pair of ballet flats, and large eyeglasses in front of the judge. jurors. Social networks have ignited. This look caused a flood of admiring comments on Twitter: "My Queen Anna Delvey wearing an iconic trial look." "I'm so happy that Anna Delvey has worn a choker at the court." The false heiress, who had just returned from lunch, appeared wearing a beige sweater over her black dress. The air of a small innocent sheep facing the cruelty of the American judicial system. "SHE ADDED A SWEATER AFTER LUNCH, IT CAN DO EVERYTHING. Nobody handles an audience with clothes better than this woman !!! "

Also according to Vanity Fair, present at the court on March 20 to meet the jurors selected to attend his trial, the thirty-something had previously asked his lawyer to shop at H & M. With $ 200 A few hours later, the young woman had presented herself at the court wearing a black blazer and panta-court and a beige sweatshirt. Also according to the New York Post, the latter's lawyers had also tried to get him to wear a pair of stilettos, finally deemed "too dangerous" by the department of correctional services. Puma sneakers of a pristine white instead.

A real fashion lesson ...

And a lesson "Gender, money, there's an unlimited amount of capital in the world, you know? Anna told me at one point. But there is a limited amount of talented people. ". Your turn to judge