“It’s because he is who he is that made me who I am today,” Mo said. Thus, it falls to his father to drive him past Tudor Jones’s Greenwich house for inspiration. Though he is shy about the $72 million number, he confirmed his net worth is in the “high eight figures.” More than enough to rent an apartment in Manhattan-though his parents won’t let him live in it until he turns 18-and acquire a BMW, which he can’t drive because he doesn’t yet have a license. Mo got into trading oil and gold, and his bank account grew. Over a $400 snack of apple juice and caviar, Pressler reported: In December 2014, Pressler wrote a dishy story in New York about the blockbuster stock market success of Mohammed Islam, then a senior at Stuyvesant High School and a member of the school’s investment club. Kent says that she had a feeling something was off with Lamb’s account and asked her editor to check it out-only for the editor to publish the story as originally written and then lay the blame at Kent’s feet. In the series, we learn that a student named Donovan Lamb tricked Kent into publishing a piece about the nonexistent millions he made in the stock market. Pressler added that although she gave Sorokin clothing for the trial, as depicted in Inventing Anna, she did not cover the proceedings.ĭonovan Lamb, the high school student who duped Kent For one, in the interim between that story and her Sorokin piece, Pressler wrote “ The Hustlers at Scores”-another hit longform story, which was adapted into the 2019 film Hustlers.įor another, though Pressler was pregnant while working on the Sorokin story, she gave birth “ two weeks or so” after the piece was finished, as she told Vulture, and was far from conducting a final source call between labor howls. Pressler’s redemption arc, however, is exaggerated. And she was duped by a teenager, prompting an apology by the magazine after the duplicity went public (more on that below). The real Pressler is indeed a writer, though she works for New York magazine and not its fictional twin.
And she has a very specific deadline: Kent is pregnant during the entirety of the reporting process and dots the last i’s immediately after having her water break on her editor’s shoes. Inventing Anna presents Kent as desperate to pull off a piece that will salvage her journalistic reputation. Shortly after the piece went to print, the student admitted that he made the entire thing up, a sufficiently high-profile media bungling that cost Kent a glitzy job offer.
ANNA DELVEY MOVIE PROFESSIONAL
In the show, she fixates on a professional embarrassment from several years earlier, in which she was assigned a story on a high school student who had purportedly made millions in the stock market.
ANNA DELVEY MOVIE SERIES
Much of the Netflix series focuses on Kent (Chlumsky) as she reports on Sorokin. Vivian Kent, reporter for Manhattan magazine Who were the real-life people who found their way into the Anna Delvey saga? And how do their appearances in Inventing Anna stack up against their descriptions in Pressler’s reporting? Let’s break it down.
Others appear on screen for the first time, with the series focusing on Chlumsky’s Kent, as well. Some of these figures are portrayed in Inventing Anna. Others, however, were not named, an arrangement that is explained in Inventing Anna as a way of Pressler (whose character is renamed Vivian Kent and played by Anna Chlumsky) bartering for additional access and sourcing assistance. The journalist Jessica Pressler’s original 2018 story for New York magazine, “ How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People,” mentioned many of these real-life figures by name. These depictions are especially accurate with the people who Sorokin-as-Delvey encounters-that is, charms, defrauds, allegedly defrauds, wines, dines, scandalizes, etc.-along the way. Except for all the parts that are totally made up.” And indeed, some elements of the show-from the VIP treatment at Rikers to the realities of Scriberia-were either exaggerated or outright invented.īut much of what is depicted in Inventing Anna is, in fact, true to Sorokin’s story, in which the Russian-born, German-raised Sorokin swindled banks, hotels, and myriad moneyed acquaintances out of hundreds of thousands of dollars to facilitate a jet-setting lifestyle for several years before she was ultimately arrested in 2017. Every episode begins with a coy disclaimer: “This whole story is completely true. In Inventing Anna, Netflix’s new Shonda Rhimes–produced series that delves into the exploits of fake-German-heiress-turned-real-con-artist Anna Delvey (real name: Anna Sorokin), fact and fiction have a way of blending together.
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