Anna Sorokin aka Anna Delvey, the fake German heiress, was paid a hefty sum of money from Netflix for her story in a Shonda Rhimes produced series titled, .
Insider reports the streamer paid Sorokin $320,000 to adapt her life story of how she scammed the rich for TV. She rose in notoriety among New York’s elite, claiming to be a German heiress with a 60 million trust fund fortune.
Her story became national headlines in 2018 after New York Magazine ran a story about her plan to create a mixed use space by borrowing money from banks.
During Sorokin’s life as a jet setter she obtained hundreds of thousands from her wealthy friends with the promise of paying them back–but never did.Her scheme came to a screeching halt in 2017 when she was arrested for grand-larceny charges and found guilty in 2019.
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