ANNA Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, was found guilty in 2019 of defrauding a $60million inheritance by pretending to be an heiress.
Inventing Anna, a Netflix limited series created by Shonda Rhimes, tells her story.
What did Anna Delvey say about the Netflix show?
On February 2, 2022, Insider released an open letter that Sorokin wrote in jail about her experience there and her reaction to having a Netflix show made about her life.
“While the world is pondering Julia Garner’s take on my accent in ‘Inventing Anna,’ a Netflix show about me,” Sorokin’s letter begins, “the real me sits in a cell in Orange County’s jail in upstate New York, in quarantine isolation.”
She went on to say that she is still jailed because her early merit release “means nothing to” Immigration and Customs Enforcement and that she remains “a continuous danger to the community.”
“So no — it doesn’t look like I’ll be watching ‘Inventing Anna’ anytime soon,” she wrote.
“Even if I were to pull some strings and make it happen, nothing about seeing a fictionalized version of myself in this criminal-insane-asylum setting sounds appealing to me.
She continued: “It’s hard to explain what I hate about it.
“I just don’t want to be trapped with these people dissecting my character, even though no one ever says anything bad.”
Sorokin also said that she was hoping that Inventing Anna would be released at a point where she had “moved on” with her life and that the show would serve as “a conclusion of sorts.”
“Nearly four years in the making and hours of phone conversations and visits later, the show is based on my story and told from a journalist’s perspective.
“And while I’m curious to see how they interpreted all the research and materials provided, I can’t help but feel like an afterthought, the somber irony of being confined to a cell at yet another horrid correctional facility lost between the lines, the history repeating itself,” she wrote.
What did lead Julia Garner say about Anna Delvey’s letter?
Ozark’s Julia Garner plays convicted fraudster Anna Delvey in Rhimes’ limited true-crime series, Inventing Anna.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Garner gave a response to Sorokin’s open letter.
“I respect whatever Anna does in terms of whether she wants to watch the show or doesn’t want to watch the show,” Garner said.
“That’s her choice and that’s totally fine. She doesn’t have to watch the show.”
“I never made the show in anticipation, thinking that she’s going to watch it. If she did watch it, great.”
“If not, that’s fine, too. I respect whatever she wants to do.”
Who else is starring in Inventing Anna?
Starring alongside Garner, the cast of Inventing Anna includes:
- Anna Chlumsky as Vivian Kent
- Laverne Cox as Kacy Duke
- Katie Lowes as Rachel
- Anders Holm as Jack Mercer
- Arian Moayed as Todd Spodek
- Alexis Floyd as Neff Davis
- James Cusati-Moyer as Val
- Saamer Usmani as Chase Sikorski
- Kate Burton as Nora
- Marika Dominczyk as Talia Mally
- Rebecca Henderson as Catherine McCaw
- Anthony Edwards as Alan Reed
