The 2022 Netflix miniseries, Inventing Anna, brings to life Jessica Pressler’s 2018 New York journal article, “Perhaps She Had So A lot Cash She Simply Misplaced Monitor of It.” Primarily based on true occasions, the sequence follows the sudden rise of the fake socialite and con artist Anna Delvey — a pseudonym for Russian-born German Anna Sorokin, who relocated to New York Metropolis in 2014.
The present, created by Shonda Rhimes, explores the scammer’s time in New York, swindling inns, funding companies, banks, and nearly each wealthy resident of the Massive Apple into handing her every little thing from massive sums of money to unique Moroccan holidays.
The present primarily follows Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky), a floundering journalist making an attempt to unweave the sophisticated story of who Delvey (Julia Garner) really is.
Whereas the present is fictional, the pretend German heiress’ story is totally true. She was arrested in 2017 with a subsequent conviction in 2019 by a Manhattan jury for larceny within the second-degree, theft of providers and first-degree tried grand larceny. The rip-off artist was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in jail and served 18 months in an ICE detention middle.
On October 7, 2022, the New York Instances stories she was launched from the detention middle and positioned on home arrest in a one-bedroom house in Manhattan.
The drama introduces us to Delvey’s non permanent boyfriend, who’s generally known as Chase Sikorski (Saamer Usmani) within the miniseries. Inside this true story, nevertheless, lies loads of pretend names to guard identities or pseudo-real characters created to fill in gaps. So who was the real-life blueprint for the character of Chase? Enter Hunter Lee Soik.
Preserve scrolling to be taught extra in regards to the character — and his real-life counterpart:
