![]() ![]() Her attempt to get the loan ultimately failed, however she did get a temporary £78,000 overdraft with City National Bank, based on forged proof of foreign assets. The police were called and Anna was arrested before being released without bail restrictions.Īccording to court documents, Anna had also forged bank statements showing £45million in assets to try to get a bank loan of £16million for her foundation. Later that month, there was also an embarrassing episode at the Le Parker Meridien hotel restaurant, where she had run out without paying the £150 bill when her credit cards were declined. That June, Anna had stayed at the Beekman, a hotel in Lower Manhattan, for three weeks without paying her £9,000 tab, and she owed £380 to the swanky W New York for a two-night stay in July. Her deft use of social media made that possible because we tend to see social media as legitimate and con artists are very, very good at exploiting that.”ġ2 The fake heiress was leaving a trail of financial chaos across the city Credit: Instagram/Anna Sorokin “Anna was, in a sense, pretending to be social royalty. “Anna’s social media postings and her carefully posed and planned photographs were all there to establish her story as a wealthy heiress,” explained psychologist Maria Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game. Her Instagram account backed up her claims with regular posts from exotic locations, ranging from the Côte d’Azur to Miami Beach, as well as designer clothes and handbags. She’d often talk about the huge fortune she was set to inherit and spoke passionately about her plans to start an exclusive art centre, which she hoped to call the Anna Delvey Foundation. Soon Anna started appearing at every art gallery opening and event launch, and was always out for dinner, partying and drinking in the cocktail bars favoured by Manhattan’s in-crowd. 12 Rebecca DeLoache explains how Anna Delvey became a conwoman Credit: Nick Rogers ![]()
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