'Inventing Anna': The real-life Kacy Duke spoke about the accuracy of the series. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, 66-year-old Kacy Duke admitted that she's portrayed accurately in the Netflix series Inventing Anna. She also loves Cox's portrayal of herself.
Anna Sorokin posed as a German heiress by the name Anna Delvy between 2015 and 2017 in Manhattan, New York. Claiming to possess a family fortune of $67 million, she defrauded socialites, financial institutions and hotels in the city for a total of $275,000.
Is the reporter in Inventing Anna the girl from my girl?
Anna Chlumsky as Vivian Kent in episode 5 of Inventing Anna. She knew from the start that the story was going to be somewhat fictionalized. "I think it was always going to be not me," Pressler says of the journalist character on the show. "The show is fictionalized, and the character is a guide to this universe.
Laverne Cox, who rose to fame as Sophia Burset in “Orange Is The New Black” and has consistently appeared in series and films since, co-stars as fitness mogul Kacey Duke. A former member of Anna's inner circle, Kacey later realizes she wasn't who she pretended to be.
Inventing Anna: Kacy Duke REACTS to Laverne Cox's Portrayal (Exclusive)
How much of Inventing Anna is true?
Inventing Anna explores Sorokin's rise and fall through the perspective of Jessica Pressler, the journalist who penned an explosive exposé on Sorokin that went viral in 2018. As every episode reiterates, “This whole story is completely true.
Netflix's Inventing Anna tells the wild true story of Anna Sorokin, who posed as a wealthy German heiress named Anna Delvey while living in N.Y.C. Inventing Anna is one of the latest true-crime series to hit Netflix.
Talia is fictional, but she's based on real socialites.
There is no real Talia Mallay, and she doesn't seem to be based on a specific person. Instead, she's probably a fictional version of the socialites that Anna befriended in New York City.
The con artist — and dabbling artist — will remain at Goshen's Orange County Correctional Facility for now. Anna Sorokin, better known as Anna Delvey, is seen in the courtroom during her 2019 trial.
Could there be a season 2 of 'Inventing Anna'? The short answer: no. The show is billed as a limited series, based on journalist Jessica Pressler's 2018 article, and the first season includes nearly all of the article's facts about Delvey's life and testimony from her friends and acquaintances.
Rachel DeLoache Williams, the real-life person who is played by Katie Lowes, has spoken out to slam the series and react to Katie's portrayal of her. For those who don't know, Rachel is a former Vanity Fair staffer who was a friend of Anna Delvey and she was conned out of $62,000 by her during their trip to Marrakesh.
On October 3, 2017 Anna Delvey was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department, in a sting operation planned by the Manhattan District Attorney's office. Rachel DeLoache Williams, who alleged she was swindled out of more than $60,000 by Delvey during a trip to Marrakesh, was involved in the sting.
Ms. Sorokin was determined to stay in New York, where, she said, she had built her life. She worked on her appeal against her deportation, made guest appearances on podcasts, delved into her own book writing and documentary projects — and even watched part of the “Inventing Anna” series.
In an interview with the Daily Mail published on 21 March, Anna's father Vladim Sorokin revealed that he speaks to his daughter — who is currently awaiting deportation back to Germany in an ICE detention centre — three or four times a week.
Sorokin was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison on one count of attempted grand larceny, three counts of grand larceny, and four counts of theft of services. She served her time in Albion Correctional Facility until she was released on parole in February of 2021, getting out early for good behavior.
And in 2019 she was convicted on eight counts and sentenced to four to 12 years in prison. She was released from prison on good behaviour on 11th February 2021 after serving almost four years of her sentence.
“Inventing Anna” explores how Sorokin, who is from Russia, pretended to be a wealthy German heiress named Anna Delvey, and convinced friends and businesses in New York to give her money that funded a lavish lifestyle. But the nine-episode series also reveals how for Sorokin, it wasn't just about the lifestyle.
Where is Anna Sorokin now? For about a year now, the 31-year-old Sorokin has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention at a New York facility, fighting deportation to Germany, the Deseret News reported.
Netflix Anna claims to have a photographic memory and to speak seven languages. “Not seven,” Sorokin clarified. “I speak four languages—in three voices.”
