True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
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This is Deborah Roberts. Welcome to the 2020 True Crime Vault. Each week, we reach back into our archives and bring you a story we found unforgettable.
He broke her teeth. He broke her bones. Poisons that you could use that would be undetectable.
Oh, my goodness. What have you done? Take a listen. dealt with, that there is no money, that you're no German heiress. Were you living a lie?
Anna's story is a story that actually novels are made of.
A globetrotting life of glitz and glamour for one woman masquerading as an heiress. She woke up one morning and she decided to be somebody else.
Somebody must have started the idea that she was an heiress. And who would have started that besides Anna? It was the Kardashian lifestyle.
The wannabe socialite becomes a tabloid sensation.
Rachel fell hook, line, and sinker for the narrative that she was in line to inherit tens of millions of dollars.
She owed me more money than I made in a year. So pay me my money.
This was really high drama, seeing these two women coming face to face together in a courtroom.
Many people see you as the ultimate scammer. Are you scamming us? Do you call scams?
It was very cold and it was snowing when we drove up to the prison.
February 11th, you walked out of prison a free woman.
Hi, Anna.
What did that feel like?
It felt great. It's exciting to be out, and I'm really happy.
What was the first thing you did?
They brought me my phone, so I got on social media.
She immediately goes back to both Instagram and Twitter. We drove with her like seven hours to New York.
Her intent was to go back to her life.
She called herself Anna Delvey, who prosecutors say was pretending to be a high-flying German heiress living a fairytale life among Manhattan's elite.
Let me just have you say, pronounce, and spell your name, please.
My name is Anna Delvey. A-N-N-A-D-E-L-V-E-Y.
How would you describe the real Anna Delvey? Who is she?
Oh, that's such a loaded question.
The wannabe socialite is actually on trial for swindling hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Prosecutors say the 28-year-old stole $275,000 from banks, hotels, and friends.
A German con artist has been sentenced to a minimum of four years in prison.
This is a story about a woman who pretended to be someone that she's not.
She woke up one morning and she decided to be somebody else and she actually became that person.
Anna is a tricky woman to describe. She is like no one I've ever met before. She is the slipperiest of slippery fish, I would say.
Anna's story is a story that actually novels are made of. You envision a story like this, but this is not really a real life scenario.
Anna was in her early 20s when she showed up in New York City from Paris back in 2013. She had come from a middle class background, she had no job, but somehow once she was here through a combination of deception and assumptions, people got the impression that she was wealthy.
She was really taking people for an absolute ride. She didn't do an honest day's work in her life in New York. The way she was living, dishing out $100 tips, living out of hotels, she was certainly living like she had that sort of money.
She would tip the cab driver $100 in cash and make sure everybody saw it.
She was living at these high-end hotels. How she supported that, I have no f***ing idea. She just didn't give a f***. At the end of the day, that's what this is about.
If I do it, no one will care. Who would arrest me?
I don't think anybody could place Anna's accent. You weren't really sure where Anna was from, but she was from somewhere else. Very active on Instagram and Twitter. She would take pictures when she was on planes or at a nice dinner. Her Instagram account actually helped build her image.
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Deborah Roberts 8 min
Anna Sorokin 4 min
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Rachel Deloach Williams 4 min
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