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At the time, Sorokin was staying at Passages Malibu, a luxury rehab/addiction treatment facility near the beach in Los Angeles County, California. In April 2017, Sorokin deposited $160,000 worth of fraudulent checks into a Citibank account, of which she was able to retrieve $70,000 in usable funds. After graduating from the school in June 2011, Sorokin moved to London to attend Central Saint Martins, an art school, but soon dropped out and returned to Germany.
At this time, Huang became suspicious of Sorokin, also noticing that she strangely always paid with cash and lived in a hotel, not an apartment. He was eventually repaid but from a Venmo account by an unfamiliar name. He then blocked Sorokin's access to him on social media, ending their friendship.
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Seeking seeking answers, we caught up with the production’s costume designers Lyn Paolo and Laura Frecon to learn more about how to piece together the ultimate grifter’s wardrobe. A similar case happened in the mid-2010s when Elizabeth Holmes became an icon of the girlboss generation. In 2015, she received the “Entrepreneur of the Year” prize at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards, wearing an all-black two-piece suit with matching pumps. That same year, she appeared on the covers of The New York Times Style Magazine, Inc., and Forbes clad in a similar suit, paired with her signature black turtleneck. Parkinson used Holmes’ uniform as a starting point for her work on the series. “The first thing I did with Amanda Seyfried in our fitting was try on the black turtleneck, so she could feel like she knew who the character was becoming,” she recalls.
In 2018, after an article by Jessica Pressler on Sorokin was published in New York, Netflix paid Sorokin $320,000 for the rights to her life story. After a few days, staff said that they were unable to charge Sorokin's credit cards and demanded an alternative form of payment. Sorokin gave excuses, blaming people for typing the numbers in wrong or the systems for being down. The lack of a credit card on file led to a hotel staff member being fired. Sorokin convinced Williams to pay the $62,000 bill, which was more than a year of net salary for Williams, using her work and personal credit cards, with a promise to reimburse her via wire transfer.
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Anna Sorokin has been seen sporting little black dresses, plunging necklines and choker necklaces in court. Hermes, Gucci, Saint Laurent, Dior and Chanel are just some of the big-name brands that supply Delvey’s bags on the show. A designer handbag is the ultimate status symbol in fashion, and Delvey played that to her advantage by letting her Hermes Birkin, YSL sling bag, Celine leather tote, and Lady Dior handbag speak for themselves. On her trip to Ibiza, Delvey even sports a Dior Book Tote with her name on it — because nothing says “money” like a luxury handbag made just for you. In July 2019, My Friend Anna, a book written by Rachel DeLoache Williams, was published by Gallery Publishing Group, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, as well as by Quercus in the UK and Goldmann in Germany. Williams received $300,000 for the book, in which she details her experiences with Sorokin, including how the trip to Marrakesh affected her financially and mentally.
Sorokin has continued her wiles from her cell at Rikers, where she managed to persuade celebrity stylist Anastasia Walker to dress her for trial in pieces from Yves Saint Laurent, Miu Miu and Victoria Beckham. But she’ll no longer have to concern herself with these pesky frustrations in state prison, where she’s restricted to a narrow palette, including army green slacks, skirts and shirts and white T-shirts. Yn Paolo was hired as the costume designer on Netflix’s miniseries Inventing Anna, but she often felt more like a detective. She wept and had to be consoled by her attorney when the judge scolded her courtroom antics. The hearing was delayed when her attorney handed the judge a bag with a weeks worth of clothing, which then had to be checked by security.
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An Instagram account was quick to pop up titled AnnaDelveyCourtLooks that has been documenting her daily outfits during the high-profile trial. While each day of the trial has been a surprise on the fashion front, one thing has remained the same - her now-signature black Celine glasses. She opted for two black mini-dresses and black tights last week, as well as black pants with various beige, black and white blouses.
After management discovered that there was no credit card on file for Sorokin, they insisted that she settle her $30,000 bill. Sorokin had a case of 1975 Dom Pérignon champagne delivered to the staff in an attempt to keep them on her side; hotel policy prevented the staff from keeping the gift. By March 2017, one month after receiving the $55,000 remaining from her loan application fee, because of her lavish spending, Sorokin had run out of money. She then would offer to take friends out for drinks and dinner but when it was time to pay the bill, she would claim that she had forgotten her credit cards or her credit cards would not work. By this time, Sorokin was very active in the New York social scene; she attended dinner parties where she met Macaulay Culkin and Martin Shkreli. "It is imperative that Anna dress appropriately for the trial. Anna's style was a driving force in her business, and life, and it is a part of who she is," Spodek told GQ.
The extremely glamorous outfit shows what you can buy with fraudulently-acquired cash—provided you can swindle enough New Yorkers, of course. Sorokin maintains social media accounts, which she has described as satire, on Twitter and Instagram. Through Instagram, she connected with Julia Fox, with whom she is planning a collaboration.
What’s fascinating is that, at least on social media, people seem to view scammers with an uncommon amount of moral relativity, dividing them into good and bad. Sorokin stole from the rich, so people rally around her, but Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin attempted to cheat a system that’s already rigged in their favor, so their actions warrant our derision. The costume designer used this moment in the series to establish the transformation of Holmes’ character. Anna Sorokin is accused of posing as an heiress and scamming people and businesses out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The 28-year-old was well-known among New York City's socialites between 2013 and 2017. Rumors of a show were first posted by Noah Becker who runs the room Friday Art Gossip on the social networking service Clubhouse.
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