Ep 3. Fake Heiress

Fake Heiress

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 26 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	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:06.6	Anna Delvey lived a life of trust fund luxury in New York City,
0:10.6	but her fortune was built on a lie, one which ended up costing friends, hotels, lawyers,
0:16.0	and bankers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
0:18.9	Narcissic, sociopathic, Machiavellian.
0:22.3	Well, she's a con artist, you know, we don't know who she is.
0:26.0	Baker till you make it on an industrial scale.
0:28.0	You can't avoid that.
0:30.0	My name's Vicky Baker, and I'm a journalist for BBC World News.
0:33.8	In this six-part podcast, Fake Airress,
0:36.6	I'm working with playwright and screenwriter Chloe Moss
0:39.4	to dig deeper into this New York scandal.
0:42.4	Together, we'll mix drama with documentary to tell the
0:45.2	story of Anna Selvie's rise and fall. You'll hear scenes based on court reports,
0:50.1	press coverage and interviews with those who knew her.
0:53.0	You'll also hear from some of those people directly.
0:56.0	Some scenes will be fictionalised because, well,
1:00.0	what's Anna Delvey's story without a bit of make-believe?
1:03.0	Did Anna really think she could make her lies a reality?
1:10.0	I think she did. It doesn't sit easy with people. Anyone who's been
1:16.9	involved with it is not going to feel very, it's a horrible feeling to
1:20.6	realize that you've been conned.
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