Ep 0. Fake Heiress

Fake Heiress

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Reporting by Vicky Baker Drama by Chloe Moss Anna Delvey was due to come into a trust fund of $67m on her 26th birthday. She was on her way to establishing the Anna Delvey Foundation, a multi-million dollar visual-arts centre in the heart of New York City. She filled her time with champagne brunches and stays in penthouse suites, as she wined and dined the New York elites to secure investment for her project. It all sounded wonderful. Except, it was all a lie. Behind Anna Delvey, the heiress, was Anna Sorokin, the recent magazine intern. Out of nothing, this otherwise unremarkable twenty-something had reinvented herself as a multi-millionaire socialite, conning businesses and friends out of thousands of dollars in the process. But how? How did she manage to live a life of luxury for so long? How did she make anyone believe her story? How did she get people to trust her enough to give her their money? Journalist Vicky Baker and playwright Chloe Moss dig deeper into the New York scandal, and mix drama with documentary to tell the story of Anna Delvey's rise and fall. Anna is played by Bella Dayne Other parts are played by Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Heather Craney, Will Kirk, Scarlett Courtney, Neil McCaul, Clive Hayward, Ian Conningham, Lucy Reynolds, Adam Courting, Greg Jones, Laura Christy, Jessica Turner, Ikky Elyas, Sinead MacInnes. Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

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0:00.0	She was very confident in her words, you know, offbeat. She didn't really have a filter. Fun? Oh she was awkward? I think that Anna really love talking to people and so when she saw someone she wanted to be, I think she was paying attention to everything they did, and remembering it.
0:32.0	Narcissic I was watching this whole thing happen thinking it can't be true it can't be true
0:37.4	Sosiopathic. Well she's a corn artist macularian
0:42.0	Anna Delphi was to come into a trust fund of 60 million euros on her 26th birthday.
0:49.0	She was on her way to establishing the Anna Delvey Foundation, a multi-million dollar visual arts center in the heart of New York City.
0:57.0	She filled her time there with spa visits and stays in luxury hotels as she wind and dined city elites to secure
1:05.0	investments for her project. But her fortune was built on a lie, one which
1:11.7	ended up costing friends, hotels, lawyers and bankers, hundreds of thousands
1:15.9	of dollars. But how did she do it? How did she manage to live a life of luxury for so long. How does she make anyone believe her story?
1:24.8	And how did she get people to trust her enough to pick up her bills?
1:28.8	Have you got the price? Between 30 to 40 million? How does that sit with you?
1:34.0	That's great.
1:35.0	I'm Vicky Baker and in this podcast, Fake Heiress,
1:40.0	I'm going to be working alongside playwright and screenwriter Chloe Moss
1:43.7	to dig deeper into this New York scandal and mix drama with documentary to tell the story of
1:49.6	Anna Delves rise and fall.
1:51.6	Seven grand a night?
1:53.2	Did I just hear that right?
1:54.4	I'm not sure how this is going to end for you,
1:56.0	but it's not going to end the world.
1:57.1	I'm so excited about what the future holds.
1:59.5	I'd like as many of you as possible to come along for the ride.
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