org was available.Īnother layer to the fascination with Delvey was how she was almost ahead of her time. com address had already been taken, it just so happened that. As somewhat of a joke, she looked up the website domain for what Delvey had planned to name her art club, the Anna Delvey Foundation (ADF for short). Lipscomb became aware of Delvey around the same time everyone else in New York did, and it was all Lipscomb and her friend group could talk about. I think most people were fascinated by how she could pull it off and create a life of luxury for herself.” I admired and was horrified by her confidence. I think she was just trying to have fun and took things a little too far. “She was very young, she started when she was 26. “She is very relatable,” Lipscomb told The Daily Beast. She wouldn’t go as far as calling herself a fan or supporter of Delvey, but on some level, couldn’t help but be impressed by what Delvey had almost managed to accomplish. When Delvey’s story first began circulating, she came a few years before the yassification of the scamming lifestyle and the “fake it till you make it” mantra had truly taken hold.ĭelvey had another kind of supporter-people who were strangely captivated by her, and dare they say it, a little bit dazzled. I regret the way I went about certain things.”
“I’d be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I said I was sorry for anything. “The thing is, I’m not sorry,” she told The New York Times. And while her actions and behavior were brazen, Delvey managed to maintain an air of mystery around herself and was utterly unremorseful for her actions. Only 28 years old at the time of her sentencing, what Delvey was undeniably remarkable (albeit highly illegal). It’s a testament not only to how outrageous Delvey’s story is, but also how she remains a source of fascination. (HBO picked up the rights to Williams’ story, with Lena Dunham penning the competing series.) Delvey was paid $320,000 by Netflix for her life rights, which went toward paying her restitution.
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When Delvey was sentenced to four to 12 years behind bars in May 2019, Netflix had already snapped up the rights to the New York piece and spun the story into the series Inventing Anna, which premiered this week, starring Ozark’s Julia Garner and created by Shonda Rhimes.
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