{"id":184032,"date":"2021-02-20T18:26:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T15:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/anna-delvey-is-the-perfect-con-for-a-covid-weary-age\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T18:26:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T15:26:46","slug":"anna-delvey-is-the-perfect-con-for-a-covid-weary-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/anna-delvey-is-the-perfect-con-for-a-covid-weary-age\/","title":{"rendered":"#Anna Delvey is the perfect con for a COVID-weary age"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Anna Delvey is the perfect con for a COVID-weary age<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Even in this era of fakery and shamelessness (hi, Hilaria!), no one beats Anna Delvey, the fake German heiress just sprung from prison.<\/p>\n

Having served three years for swindling about $275,000 out of friends, acquaintances, hotels, banks and businesses, including an attempt to con $25\u2009million from a hedge fund, Delvey (n\u00e9e Sorokin) is back on the scene \u2014 or, in COVID times, what remains of it.<\/p>\n

And despite what she said at sentencing \u2014 \u201cI apologize for the mistakes I made\u201d \u2014 she has zero remorse. Never has, never will.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing is, I\u2019m not sorry,\u201d she told a reporter the day after a judge sentenced her to 4 to twelve years. \u201cI\u2019m not a good person.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Days after release: \u201cI think regret is just a useless feeling.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, at least the self-awareness is refreshing. Maybe it\u2019s why we can\u2019t look away. Anna Delvey, like all great performance artists, zigs when you think she\u2019ll zag. A pretty young woman sent to Rikers, then Albion? Delvey doesn\u2019t want your pity. She wants your admiration. She is the ne plus ultra<\/em> of con artists, and prison was just another system to game<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about who you know,\u201d Delvey told Insider over Zoom about life in the slammer. Ever on brand, she wore a $720 Balenciaga hoodie while granting her exclusive. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like the scene in New York, but amplified. Because if you know the right officers, you\u2019re going to get the right job. And so I had a job in a gym, because I just wanted to work out when no one else would go. And they gave it to me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not for Delvey is the American redemption arc in which the sinner prostrates before the media, begs for forgiveness and insists that they\u2019ll change \u2014 or at least try their very best. She is a bona fide millennial social media<\/a> star with no need for Oprah, Gayle, or confessional culture at large.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nope, Anna Delvey\u2019s got a Netflix deal and a German camera crew following her every move and seemingly limitless money for an ex-con just days out of prison, cocooned in a $260 per night room at the NoMad, shopping at Sephora in a $1,000 Canada Goose jacket, getting her hair done at a salon \u2014 quarantine? What quarantine?<\/em> \u2014 holding a bag from high-end boutique Kirna Zabete while posing under a neon sign that reads \u201cIS IT OK FOR ME TO HAVE EVERYTHING I WANT.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

App<\/a>arently, yes \u2014 except for a bank account, which the state of New York has not allowed her to open yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Delvey is like New York City\u2019s id, and what is New York City if not the ultimate place for hustle and reinvention? \u201cReinventing Anna<\/a>\u201d is her actual Twitter bio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And who among us, as the GameStop fiasco showed, really feels bad for hedge funds, short sellers, big banks \u2014 all the legitimate cons out there?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anna\u2019s in on the joke.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only job I\u2019m willing to accept at this stage of my career is @GoldmanSachs creative director,\u201d she tweeted on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yes, Anna Delvey is the anti-heroine of a corona-weary 2021, a young woman with all the wrong priorities, refusing to learn her lesson, bragging about Champagne and caviar on Instagram and Twitter, comparing herself to Sharon Stone in \u201cBasic Instinct.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her 85,000 Instagram<\/a> followers can\u2019t be wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the rest of us are locked down, Anna lives it up, deportation no fear of hers. \u201cOnly agreeing to go back to Europe,\u201d she tweeted last Sunday, \u201cwhen they give Black people reparations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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After a brief spell in the clink, Anna Delvey now has a Netflix deal and a German camera crew following her every move.<\/figcaption>
Steven Hirsch<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Don\u2019t bother asking if she\u2019s for real. That\u2019s never been her point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing live on [Instagram] in 35 mins,\u201d she tweeted at 8:36 p.m. on Valentine\u2019s Day. \u201cFULL Q&A IF YOU FOLLOW MY IG.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Would you believe the appointed time came and went?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving tech problems,\u201d she posted. \u201cFive mins more. I\u2019d never let you guys down.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

True to form, Anna never showed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Is that letting fans down, or giving them what they want?\n <\/p><\/div>\n