In the prison on the outskirts of the city, there was a woman who was out of place with her.
She wears black-rimmed glasses, is logically clear, and speaks elegantly.
Some people scoffed that she was the first female liar in New York;
There are also people who firmly believe that her family is rich and is the heir to hundreds of millions of assets.
And she herself said, money is not a problem for me, believe it or not.
She's just —
Fictional Anna
Inventing Anna
Director: David Franco
Writers: Sanda Lemes / Jessica Pressler
Starring: Julia Garner / Anna Kramski / Laverne Cox
Premiere: 2022-02-11 (USA)
Episodes: 9
*The following is a combination of real events and plots, and a few are fictionalized for episodes
Her name was Anna Solokin, another more widely known name, Anna Delvi.
She is the heir to the "Delvi" family, and her father, who wants her to be self-reliant, has set up a 60 million euro trust fund in her name.
As long as she turns 26, she has the freedom to dispose of the money.
And Anna's social platform is also full of the extravagant atmosphere of the rich second generation -
Wander the fashion show, shuttle through art galleries, cross-border celebrity summits.
There are high-end luxuries everywhere, countless high-class parties, as well as rich aristocrats, fashion celebrities, and even business leaders who take intimate photos with her.
In the whole circle of rich celebrities in New York, there seems to be no one Anna does not know, and her name can be heard everywhere she goes.
Unlike the rich second generation who usually splurge only fun, Anna has her own business: a foundation named after herself.
In the initial stages of the foundation, Anna formed the core members of the foundation with extensive contacts.
Through a detailed business plan, she successfully persuaded the bank investors to vouch for her, applied for a loan of $22 million from the National City Bank, and obtained a credit line of up to $200,000.
None of them ever doubted Anna's true identity until she was jailed for alleged fraud.
In order to dig up Anna's story, the female reporter of "Manhattan" spent several months, from social platforms to defense materials, to the hotels where Anna lived and the people she interacted with to conduct detailed interviews.
The mystery of this legendary woman has finally been unveiled-
Surprisingly, Anna is not a rich second generation with a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Her father was a truck driver, her mother was a housewife, and there was a younger brother in the family, a very ordinary family.
As a Russian immigrant, she only came to Germany to live and study at the age of 16, and she was not welcomed.
The rumored rich people are all fake!
It's shocking.
How did Anna fit into New York celebrity circles, and how did she get the rich and famous to believe her nonsense, and even willingly be deceived?
All of this is inseparable from the two most critical words, "human design".
From an early age, Anna showed an interest and concern for fashion, and after graduating from high school, she went to Central Saint Martins In London to study.
Not long after that, however, Anna dropped out of St. Martin to intern at a PR firm in Berlin.
She then went to Paris to get an internship at the French fashion magazine Purple.
It was also during the internship at Purple that Anna had the opportunity to meet fashion, art and celebrities.
Everyday life of Anna Solokin in reality
In the eyes of the fashionista who can best distinguish between upstarts and Internet celebrities at a glance, Anna's taste is unique.
She can always grasp the essence of "taste" very precisely, whether it is dress, conversation, behavior, and even details such as where to eat what kind of dishes to eat, what vintage regional red wine to order.
Anna hun exudes an air of "high society".
In the eyes of the real celebrities, Anna and them are the same kind of people.
"Don't try to impress, don't be afraid, don't care, and have a good taste for art."
Anna often travels to major galleries and art exhibitions, inadvertently sharing her views on art with celebrities.
Once you meet a fellow traveler, you can quickly form a friendship with each other.
Her unique insight into fashion and art was Anna's first stepping stone to the celebrity community.
When Anna has these "connections" and "friends", she must make the most of these resources.
The first is social platforms.
Anna left photos with various celebrities through social platforms and intimately marked each other's names, constantly deepening her impression of her image as the heir of the nobility.
At the same time, there is no shortage of various art exhibitions, photos of travel and vacations on social platforms, and even private jets and luxury cruises, so that more and more people believe in her fabricated life.
The human set has been successfully established, and Anna has begun a new step of expansion of her own.
Through the "I know so-and-so celebrity" and "so-and-so celebrity is my friend" and other bridges, Anna began to squeeze into a higher level of circle.
She had a new name: entrepreneurship.
Anna constantly uses the rise of women and entrepreneurial enthusiasm to make a big fuss, emphasizing that although the family has money, she hopes that she can be independent, so she needs to rely on her own efforts to start a business and get more support and referrals from more people.
Unlike other rich second generations who only know how to enjoy, Anna's enthusiasm for entrepreneurship has attracted the favor of some investors.
At the same time, Anna's boyfriend Chase was in the stage of entrepreneurial failure, and she took advantage of Chase's failure to report to Chase's introducer Nora and smooth Nora's resources into her camp.
Anna, who had previously run into walls due to her lack of a large network, successfully incorporated architects, collectors, and real estate tycoons into her entrepreneurial team, forming a "perfect" business plan.
To launch this program, it will need to be implemented through financing loans.
At first, like all entrepreneurs, she submitted a business plan in an attempt to persuade investor Alan to secure a loan for her.
But no matter how crazy she said it, Alan saw no benefit from her project and could not trust such a young man, so he rejected her.
After hitting the wall many times, Anna found a new way out:
First change her image, she is no longer a rich second generation who goes in and out of fashion parties, but a clear-headed female entrepreneur.
I put on my glasses and changed to a deeper tone, and I became a businessman.
Then she tried to find a weakness in Alan: he had a daughter.
Coincidentally, Alan's daughter, like all stupid children, does not learn any tricks and only thinks about spending the family's money every day.
Anna's passionate attitude toward entrepreneurship gradually ignited Ellen's passion for life.
Of course, the most important thing is the interest.
Anna used rudimentary tricks, such as buying fake calling cards and voice changing gear, to provide more realistic verification of her fake identity, convincing Alan that there was nothing wrong with the trust fund she offered as collateral.
Even when the underwriter demanded a deposit of $100,000, Allen used his judgment as a guarantee to apply for a $200,000 credit line from the National City Bank on Bea's behalf.
Allen was convinced that it was a "eat-to-death" business that would cost more than $200 million before it could expand globally.
Even if Anna can't come up with the money right now, it's only a matter of time.
Seeing this story, people can't help but have an illusion:
This is not the cheating story of a female liar, but more like the blood and tears of a female entrepreneur's entrepreneurial history.
However, the most critical issue is -
Where did Anna's money come from?
She used a very clever approach to small and broad.
In the beginning, when Anna first stepped into the social circle of celebrities, she spent thousands of dollars to package herself with luxurious clothes and consumption.
Even tipping, the average person can up to $10, but Anna starts at $100.
When she knew more and more rich people, Anna used the excuse that she only had cash or could only send money, and asked the other party to help her swipe her card in advance.
When in love with her boyfriend Chase, staying in a hotel, eating, shopping, and brushing Chase's card;
Help Nora go to the boutique to pick up clothes, book consumption, entertain friends, and write down her own consumption in Nora's name, or swipe the credit card that Nora gave her.
Even the appointment of private jets is borrowed from the name of investors, not a penny is paid, and a few perfunctory rushes to sit on the private plane.
It is precisely because she cheats on rich people, and rich people take it for granted that Anna has no reason to owe them money and not pay it back, so they are comfortable to pay for her first.
Even if they find out that they have been deceived, the rich people will not be able to choose away because of their face.
There are even many of them who don't realize they've been cheated until Anna goes to jail.
The only person who kept collecting money from Anna was Rachel, a female journalist from Vanity Fair.
After becoming friends with Anna, in order to show her magnanimity, most of the time, Anna would not let Rachel pay.
Whether it's beauty, shopping or eating, Anna will take the initiative to pay for Rachel.
However, when they went to Morocco together, Anna's credit card could not be swiped, so she had to let Rachel advance more than 60,000 US dollars.
For the average rich person, this may not be much money.
But for Rachel, it was the equivalent of a year's salary and blew up her credit card.
In order to recover this debt, Rachel published Anna's story of cheating money in Vanity Fair and reported the case to the police.
At the same time, Anna was also formally arrested by the police for constantly eating overlord meals in various hotels and escaping hotel money.
Anna was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison and fined $199,000 and $24,000 for four counts of "major fraud."
The four-year-long fraud case of New York's first pseudonymous woman came to an end.
Until she was released on bail and the series featuring her was broadcast, she was still using the world's rich people.
Every time she tried, Anna dressed herself up carefully, and even found a designer to design a "court appearance" for herself, and she would refuse to appear in court because she was not satisfied with the style.
Anna's "fashion show" at the trial once became a hot topic on social platforms.
*It is the same as the "trial match" of Japanese female murderer Kanae Kishima
Anna, who is in prison, is also busy writing her memoirs in New York, and plans to write a book about her life in prison.
And her scam story, sold to Netflix for $320,000, was made into this series.
Anna Solokin in trial
Anna's life is indeed an extremely wonderful drama.
She is well versed in celebrity social networking, mastering the rules of the game, and her strong aura and confident conversation make her stand out in front of really rich people.
She has created a sense of "the world's solipsism", which is also a common disease of rich people.
When others looked up to the upper class and bowed down to the high society, Anna stepped in with a more noble posture, breaking the inherent thinking habits of the celebrities.
Even if Anna's fraud methods are not advanced, and there are many loopholes that are visible to the naked eye, she is "a fan of the authorities".
Anna's acting skills have been so remarkable that even she herself lives in the presupposition of falsehood.
Before her arrest, Anna was suspected of committing suicide on medication and was admitted to the hospital.
In the hospital, even if her lies are exposed, she blames all the blame on her imaginary "original family".
Dad is a gangster, not only domestic violence, he is a Russian immigrant, but also suffered all kinds of discrimination... Wait a minute.
However, after the investigation, ordinary and ordinary blue-collar families cannot bear the blame for Anna's crime.
Behind many cruel cases, there are always accusations against the original family.
But realistic stories like Anna's tell us that genes and the environment are not the absolute factors that make a person "bad."
Anna's twisted personality and pretentiousness come from her disobedience to fate and her paranoia about money and fame.
What she longed for was not just money, but a sense of vanity that was loved and sought after by thousands of people.
People who have been deceived by Anna can recover money and cut off contact;
However, only she herself, trapped in the deception laid down by her own hands, will never escape.
*Author of this article: D