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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: A Russian acquantance detects "a hint of Russkie" in Anna's (affected) accent. She tries to laugh it off, but plants the first seed of suspicion in Chase.
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* SanitySlippage: Vivian suffers from this in Episode 9 where she's been suffering {{Gaslighting}} from Anna's BlatantLies so long that she's convinced herself there must be some truth to them regarding her father being a mobster or oligarch. She even suffers daydreams or hallucinations about Anna's past. This despite the fact all her research indicates he's a perfectly ordinary working class Russian immigrant.
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* UnintentionallyNotoriousCrime: Anna's story in a nutshell. In her attempt to defend herself, she turns a very minor case of fraud (mostly unpaid hotel bills) into a world-famous story that causes the courts to throw the book at her. PlayedWith as Anna did attempt to defraud Fortress of forty million dollars in loans. However, it was so easily prevented that its arguably not an actual crime (and was thwarted by a simple background check).
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* UnintentionallyNotoriousCrime: Anna's story in a nutshell. In her attempt to defend herself, she turns a very minor case of fraud (mostly unpaid hotel bills) into a world-famous story that causes the courts to throw the book at her. PlayedWith as Anna did attempt to defraud Fortress of forty million dollars in loans. However, it was so easily prevented that its arguably not an actual crime (and was thwarted by a simple background check). She also was apparently going to legitimately start an art gallery with it so the fraud was purely in her representation of assets.
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** Anna hinging everything on the Fortress deal and not realizing they'd do a background check on her heiress story.
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* UnintentionallyNotoriousCrime: Anna's story in a nutshell. In her attempt to defend herself, she turns a very minor case of fraud (mostly unpaid hotel bills) into a world-famous story that causes the courts to throw the book at her.
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* UnintentionallyNotoriousCrime: Anna's story in a nutshell. In her attempt to defend herself, she turns a very minor case of fraud (mostly unpaid hotel bills) into a world-famous story that causes the courts to throw the book at her. PlayedWith as Anna did attempt to defraud Fortress of forty million dollars in loans. However, it was so easily prevented that its arguably not an actual crime (and was thwarted by a simple background check).
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* FreudianExcuse: {{Deconstructed}}. Vivian believes that Anna ''has'' to have something like this. [[spoiler: Instead, after careful investigation of the idea that her father is either a Russian mobster or oligarch, she finds out that he's an ordinary working class businessman. Furthermore, that she was bullied at school (Anna was the bully). An entire episode reveals that Anna was simply motivated her entire life by {{Greed}} and a desire to live the high life instead of within her means. It leaves Vivian devastated.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Anna's entire con scheme comes apart once Fortress wants to verify her assets and talk to her (mythical) billionaire father.
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** Anna's entire con scheme comes apart once Fortress wants to verify her assets and talk to her (mythical) billionairefather.father.
** Eventually, all the expensive hotels in New York cop to the fact Anna skips out on paying her bills and distribute her photograph.
** Anna tries to live with her lawyer for her first arrest and he says a BluntNo.
** Anna's entire con scheme comes apart once Fortress wants to verify her assets and talk to her (mythical) billionaire
** Eventually, all the expensive hotels in New York cop to the fact Anna skips out on paying her bills and distribute her photograph.
** Anna tries to live with her lawyer for her first arrest and he says a BluntNo.
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* TooDumbToLive: Anna's insistence that her lawyer not say that she didn't have any chance of getting the millions she attempted to defraud Fortress of. This despite the fact that he, correctly, points out that if she only looks like she was skipping hotel bills rather than trying to make millions then she looks like a significantly less hardened criminals.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Anna gets away with fantastic amounts of fraud, lying, and cheating but is eventually sentenced to [[spoiler: twelve years. Possibly {{Subverted}} since she only served two of them.]]
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* AssholeVictim: Anna's victims are uniformly snobs and have more money than they know what to do with.
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* AssholeVictim: Anna's victims are uniformly snobs and have more money than they know what to do with. [[spoiler: Until she cons her friend Rachel of $62,000.]]
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* OhCrap: Anna's response to getting the Fortress deal [[spoiler: but they want to meet with her father and visit the bank.]]
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Anna Deley's accent that is supposed to be German but sounds ridiculous and fake. This is not bad acting but Julia Garner but almost identical to the real Anna's affected accent.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Anna Deley's accent that is supposed to be German but sounds ridiculous and fake. This is not bad acting but by Julia Garner but almost identical to the real Anna's affected accent.
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* ImpossibleMundaneSolution: What is the reason for Andrew Reed helping Anna despite the lack of money and resources? The show indicates she was the daughter figure he wanted from his own.
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* ImpossibleMundaneSolution: ImpossiblyMundaneExplanation: What is the reason for Andrew Reed helping Anna despite the lack of money and resources? The show indicates she was the daughter figure he wanted from his own.
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** Viviant Kent is one for Jessica Pressler.
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* CrimeAfterCrime: Anna probably could have continued her mooching indefinitely and avoided any serious legal consequences if she hadn't attempted to get a 40 million dollar loan for her nonexistent business using her equally nonexistent trust fund as collateral.
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* CrimeAfterCrime: Anna probably could have continued her mooching indefinitely and avoided any serious legal consequences if she hadn't attempted to get a 40 million dollar loan for her nonexistent business using her equally nonexistent trust fund as collateral. Why did she do this? Because she'd already been caught doing other crimes and felt she had to escalate to keep afloat.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: “This story is completely true. Except for the parts that are totally made up.” Among other variations of that line.
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* BlatantLies: Anna is actually quite good at this, sticking to her story in many places but often throws in easily-verified details like Delvey being her mother's maiden name (which it is not).
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Creator/ShondaRhimes' ''Inventing Anna'' is an American drama streaming television miniseries inspired by the New York magazine article "How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People" by Jessica Pressler. A journalist based on Pressler, with a lot to prove investigates the case of Anna Delvey, the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York's social scene - and stole their money as well. The series was released on Netflix on February 11, 2022. Julia Garner stars in the titular role.
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Creator/ShondaRhimes' ''Inventing Anna'' is an American drama streaming television miniseries inspired by the New York magazine article "How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People" by Jessica Pressler.
A journalist based on Pressler, Vivian Kent, with a lot to prove investigates the case of AnnaDelvey, Delvey (real name: Anna Sorokin), the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York's social scene - and stole their money as well. The series was released on Netflix on February 11, 2022. Julia Garner stars in the titular role.
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The series had some controversy due to the fact Anna was paid $320,000 for the story that she primarily used to pay off her creditors.
A journalist based on Pressler, Vivian Kent, with a lot to prove investigates the case of Anna
The series had some controversy due to the fact Anna was paid $320,000 for the story that she primarily used to pay off her creditors.
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* DramaticIrony: Chase is revealed to ''also'' be a con man and neither Anna nor he realized the other was completely fictitious in their persona.
* {{Expy}}: Aside from Anna, all of the people on the show are these of real-life figures.
* {{Expy}}: Aside from Anna, all of the people on the show are these of real-life figures.
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: Anna Delvey's accent sounds ''ridiculous'' but is spot on to the real one's.
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* NotSoDifferent: Anna makes a somewhat credible argument that the only difference between her nonexistent club "business" and the "legitimate" WAKE business (that seems to be vaporware) or lifestyle line is that the latter were founded by already wealthy people. A parallel is made that a lot of wealthy people are wealthy for absolutely no reason other than people give them money for smoke and mirrors.
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* TheFashionista: Anna is very good at this and has been since she was about thirteen when she worked at a Vogue internship in Paris (or so it seems). It's one of the reasons she succeeded.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Anna Deley's accent that is supposed to be German but sounds ridiculous and fake. This is not bad acting but Julia Garner but almost identical to the real Anna's affected accent.
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** StringTheory: Journalist Vivian's baby room has photos of everyone Anna ripped off with strings connecting them.
** WhiteCollarCrime: Anna sets up a steady set of cons which get bigger and bigger until she's indicted for multiple counts of attempted grand larceny in the first degree and theft of services.
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* AssholeVictim: Anna's victims are uniformly snobs and have more money than they know what to do with.
* BavarianFireDrill: Anna's MO is to simply act like she's a millionaire heiress and a spoiled entitled socialite. The actual ones all believe her and she gets away with racking up huge bills her friends will usually cover.
* TheCharmer: Anna is allegedly this. By the time she's in prison, she's actually quite rude and mean.
* ManipulativeBastard: Anna is always working everyone she sees, even those people she tries to help.
* PokeThePoodle: Anna undoubtedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars and lied constantly about her path but given her "victims" were hotels and the super-rich paying for her upkeep, most audiences will find them less than heinous. Her lawyer even points out most people would sympathize with her.
* RefugeInAudacity: Essentially, Anna succeeded in living among New York's elite by just claiming to be one of them and living off their generosity.
* TheSocialExpert: Anna is extremely good at getting people to trust her and buy her lies.
* StringTheory: Journalist Vivian's baby room has photos of everyone Anna ripped off with strings connecting them.
* StupidCrooks:
** Anna and her boyfriend stay on a yacht for an extra five days after everyone else had left. This, of course, pisses off all of her friends.
** Anna blabbing her story to journalists makes her case massively famous when it was previously something minor.
* TooCleverByHalf: Anna screws herself over by not taking a plea bargain due to {{Pride}} and belief she can talk her way out of any problem.
* UnintentionallyNotoriousCrime: Anna's story in a nutshell. In her attempt to defend herself, she turns a very minor case of fraud (mostly unpaid hotel bills) into a world-famous story that causes the courts to throw the book at her.
* WasItAllALie: Anna's working class friends debate this since everything they knew about her was false.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Inventing Anna]]
Creator/ShondaRhimes ''Inventing Anna'' is an American drama streaming television miniseries inspired by the New York magazine article "How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People" by Jessica Pressler. A journalist based on Pressler, with a lot to prove investigates the case of Anna Delvey, the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York's social scene - and stole their money as well. The series was released on Netflix on February 11, 2022. Julia Garner stars in the titular role.
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Creator/ShondaRhimes ''Inventing Anna'' is an American drama streaming television miniseries inspired by the New York magazine article "How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People" by Jessica Pressler. A journalist based on Pressler, with a lot to prove investigates the case of Anna Delvey, the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York's social scene - and stole their money as well. The series was released on Netflix on February 11, 2022. Julia Garner stars in the titular role.
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