Pop culture has sunk to a new low with Anna Delvey and her ankle monitor on ‘Dancing With the Stars’

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joining the new season of “Dancing with the Stars,” alongside retired NFL receiver Danny Amendola, Olympians Ilona Maher and Stephen Nedoroscik and a few reality stars looking to stay relevant.Disney-owned ABC’s press release shamelessly sanitized Delvey’s resume, calling her “an artist, fashion icon and infamous NYC socialite who gained international attention after Netflix purchased the rights to her story and developed it into the 2022 miniseries ‘Inventing Anna.'”The show’s Wikipedia page, however, was more accurate in its description: “convicted fraudster.”The official announcement featured Delvey, née Anna Sorokin, in a glitzy,thigh-baring golden dress that showed off her most important accessory: her ankle bracelet.That is her schtick, after all.

The wink, the nod. She’s still a bad girl — locked down by ICE — on house arrest, only now a judge has expanded her “home” range by nearly 3,000 miles.Delvey is what you’d call an aspirational convict, one who proves that crime does pay.

She has spun her criminal notoriety into a career as a downtown It girl with fashion connections and fawning press.Under house arrest since 2022 and evidently still facing the threat of deportation, the Russian-born Delvey has thrown star-studded dinner parties at her East Village apartment, sold her artwork and started a podcast.

During next week’s New York Fashion Week, she’s scheduled to walk the SHAO runway.She is the resident “deception analyst” for USA’s show “The Anonymous” — a reality competition show where people lie to each other.God bless America.In 2022, Netflix released the Shonda Rhimes-created miniseries “Inventing Anna,” based on a sensational New York Magazine article.