

In 2019, Netflix paid Anna Delvey, real name Sorokin, $320k for the rights to her life story. Via Netflix Right, so was Anna Sorokin, or Anna Delvey, paid by Netflix for the rights to her story?

There’s a law which has made Anna profiting from her case a bit of a sticky one. But, not all is as it seems regarding her pay. Now, Netflix has released Inventing Anna – a drama telling her story. She has since been released, but has found herself back in prison. Anna was convicted on multiple counts of attempted grand larceny, grand larceny and theft of services, for which she was sentenced to between four and 12 years imprisonment.

In 2019, Anna Sorokin was found guilty of scamming New York’s social elite out of thousands of dollars by posing as the rich heiress. She became friends with celebrities and the rich and famous and managed to stay at the most luxury hotels on the scene – all without actually having the money she said she did. In New York in 2013, Anna Sorokin took the name Delvey and told people she was a wealthy German heiress sitting on a €60million (£52million) fortune.
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Anna Sorokin, or Anna Delvey, is no different – the con-woman agreed a fee to be paid by Netflix for the rights to her story in new series Inventing Anna. Whenever a true crime documentary or drama comes to Netflix, it begs the question of whether or not convicted criminals are gaining financially selling their stories of how they broke the law and became well known from doing so.
