Anna Delvey: The Fake Heiress Who Scammed New York | #447
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In the summer of 2017, 26-year-old Anna Sorokin was arrested in Manhattan with a stack of unpaid hotel bills and fraudulent loan requests in her wake. She’d been calling herself Anna Delvey: an uber-wealthy German heiress. In reality? She didn’t have a penny to her (fake) name.
Armed only with an untraceable accent and a passion for fashion, Anna tried to pull the designer wool over the eyes of some of America’s biggest financial institutions, in her bid to secure multi-million-dollar loans…
And the worst part? She almost got away with it.
Was Anna a con artist? An inspirational Robin Hood in high heels? An insufferable wannabe? Or all of the above?
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| 0:00.0 | The elite fashion scene of New York City, where it girls and celebrities rub shoulders with designers |
| 0:14.7 | and trust fud kids have a ball spending daddy's money like they can't get rid of it fast enough. |
| 0:20.6 | Until April 2019, |
| 0:23.0 | Anna Delvey moved through that world like she was born into it. Stylish, aloof, and just enough of a |
| 0:29.2 | bitch. She seemed every inch the spoiled European heiress taking Manhattan as her personal |
| 0:34.6 | playground. The only problem was that it was all made up. |
| 0:40.3 | Because Anna Delvey wasn't born into money, |
| 0:43.3 | and Anna Delvey wasn't even her real name. |
| 0:47.3 | Instead, she built an elaborate house of cards out of thin air, |
| 0:51.3 | playing the rich girl's schick so convincingly that she fooled a whole city, |
| 0:56.8 | almost. Because now, in a federal courthouse facing multiple charges of grand larceny |
| 1:04.0 | and theft of services totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. Time's up for the so-called |
| 1:10.4 | fake heiress. |
| 1:12.4 | But who is was, Anna Delvey? |
| 1:15.3 | How did she con the New York elite |
| 1:16.9 | and some of the biggest financial institutions in the world? |
| 1:21.1 | Despite all of the public attention, |
| 1:23.5 | Anna Delvey is still a mysterious character |
| 1:25.7 | and her true motivations are far from those we see with traditional con artists. |
| 1:32.5 | I'm Hannah. I'm Suruti. And this is Rich Girl Red Handed. |
| 1:37.9 | The Anna in The Dock was miles away, literally and figuratively, from where it all started back in January 1991. |
| 1:47.6 | She was born Anna Sorokin in the working-class commuter town of Domedovo, near Moscow, |
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