<ul class="summary-list"><li> Neff Davis said she's received "racist comments" since "<keyword id="12387923" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="inventing-anna" source="Orion">Inventing Anna</keyword>" premiered.</li><li>Davis remained loyal to convicted con artist <keyword id="12215463" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="anna-sorokin" source="Orion">Anna Sorokin</keyword> throughout Sorokin's time in prison.</li></ul>Anna Sorokin's real-life friend Neffatari "Neff" Davis <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/inventing-anna-neff-character-true-story.html">told Vulture</a> about the "racist comments" she's received since <keyword id="11995416" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="shonda-rhimes" source="Orion">Shonda Rhimes</keyword>' hit <keyword id="11892922" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="netflix" source="Orion">Netflix</keyword> show <a href="https://www.insider.com/inventing-anna-details-you-missed-easter-eggs-netflix-2022-2">"Inventing Anna" premiered</a> on February 11. Sorokin is a convicted con artist who tricked Manhattan's elite bankers and real estate agents into believing she was a German heiress named <keyword id="12215464" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="anna-delvey" source="Orion">Anna Delvey</keyword>. She <a href="https://www.insider.com/inventing-anna-sorokin-julia-garner-katie-lowes-forget-lines-2022-2">convinced very rich people</a> to buy into the dream she had of opening up an elite social club modeled after Soho House, which she wanted to call The Anna Delvey Foundation. Davis, who befriended Sorokin around 2017 while working at the <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/inventing-anna-delvey-netflix-real-neff-davis">upscale 11 Howard hotel</a>, still talks to Sorokin today and worked as a consultant on "Inventing Anna" for Rhimes' production company, Shondaland. Davis' character on the show also remains loyal to Sorokin throughout her scam and during her time in jail. <blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CVGqRn4hOgh" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by Neffatari/Neff (@filmcolors)<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime=""></time></div></blockquote>"The unfortunate part is a lot of racist comments and people who don't understand the dynamics between me being a Black woman and Anna being a white woman," Davis said in Vulture. She said that many people write her to say that fictional Neff "was just someone who kissed Anna's ass too much." But Davis says she was just trying to show a friend "loyalty." "As a Black woman, I know we are pitted against Caucasian women a lot of times," the filmmaker, who was working at Starbucks when she was messaged by journalist Jessica Pressler to participate <a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html">in Pressler's New York Magazine story</a> investigation into Sorokin, told Vulture. "But at the end of the day, my loyalty with Anna wasn't because of her skin color." Davis said she did question comments Sorokin made sometimes, but said, "I never saw the bad side of Anna. I never got scammed by her." Their friendship was based on the fact that Sorokin treated Davis well. Davis said Sorokin paid back any money she borrowed from Davis. <div type="image" title="Vivian (Anna Chlumsky) and Neff (Alexis Floyd) on &quot;Inventing Anna.&quot;" height="2000" width="2666" msid="89853882" hostid="261"></div>The former barista said she finds it "interesting" that people are "disappointed" in her friendship with Sorokin. Davis maintains she's loyal to "all my friends." But even though the two remain in contact, Davis is not controlled by Sorokin, she clarified. "Sometimes I won't answer the phone because I had to let her know I have my freedom," she said. "I'm not going to be able to answer every single phone call from jail. But if you need some panties or some coconut milk for Thanksgiving, I'll send it."Sorokin served her time in jail for her fraud-related crimes but <a href="https://www.insider.com/inventing-anna-netflix-where-is-real-anna-delvey-sorokin-jail-2022-2">was arrested by ICE</a> for overstaying her visa in February 2021 and currently remains in custody. "Inventing Anna" is available to stream now on Netflix.

Anna Sorokin's real-life friend Neff Davis opens up about the 'racist' comments she's gotten from people who think she 'kissed Anna's ass too much'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The real-life Neffatari "Neff" Davis spoke out about her friendship with <keyword id="12215463" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="anna-sorokin" source="Orion">Anna Sorokin</keyword>.</li><li>"I have to set boundaries. Sometimes I won't answer the phone," Davis told Vulture. </li></ul>The real-life Neffatari "Neff" Davis opened up about her friendship with convicted scammer Anna Sorokin in a new <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/inventing-anna-neff-character-true-story.html">interview with Vulture</a>. "It's almost like a seesaw. I have to set boundaries. Sometimes I won't answer the phone because I had to let her know I have my freedom," Davis <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/inventing-anna-neff-character-true-story.html">said</a> of her friendship with Sorokin."I'm not going to be able to answer every single phone call from jail. But if you need some panties or some coconut milk for Thanksgiving, I'll send it," Davis added. According to the filmmaker, she had to "set boundaries" with Sorokin during Sorokin's 2019 trial, since the fake heiress, born in Russia, "started losing her mind a little bit when it came to being famous in jail and by herself without family here in America." Now that Davis lives in Los Angeles, and Sorokin remains in ICE custody in Orange County, New York, Davis said their communication style has changed."We speak as much as we can, which is like once a month right now. I spoke to her yesterday, actually," Davis told Vulture. "It's like, if I'm bored, I'll pick up." <div type="image" title="Anna Sorokin delvey trial" height="3486" width="4647" msid="89842394" hostid="261"></div>"I try to give her some type of stamina to keep going because she literally has no one out here in America," the filmmaker added. Both Davis and Sorokin are portrayed in the new <keyword id="11995416" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="shonda-rhimes" source="Orion">Shonda Rhimes</keyword> show "<keyword id="12387923" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="inventing-anna" source="Orion">Inventing Anna</keyword>," currently streaming on <keyword id="11892922" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="netflix" source="Orion">Netflix</keyword>. Davis is played by Alexis Floyd, and "Ozark" star Julia Garner portrays Sorokin. Also featured on the Netflix show is Sorokin's former friend Rachel Williams, played by Katie Lowes. The real-life Williams, who previously worked at Vanity Fair, recently <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-sorokin-inventing-anna-netflix-rachel-williams-2022-2">condemned "Inventing Anna"</a> for "glorifying" a "sociopathic" criminal. Sorokin later <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-sorokin-rachel-williams-netflix-shonda-rhimes-show-comments-2022-2">responded on Instagram</a> in a lengthy statement, accusing Williams of "shamelessly" exploiting their former friendship.Sorokin first rose to fame in 2018, after articles were published by <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html">New York Magazine</a>, <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/my-misadventure-with-the-magician-of-manhattan">Vanity Fair</a>, and <a href="https://nypost.com/2017/07/31/wannabe-socialite-busted-for-skipping-out-on-pricey-hotel-bills/">the New York Post</a> about her attempts to con financial institutions out of money by pretending to be a wealthy German heiress.A jury <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-delvey-sorokin-fake-heiress-sentenced-prison-2019-5">convicted Sorokin on charges</a> of theft, larceny, and attempted theft and larceny in May 2019, though <a href="https://www.insider.com/whats-true-inventing-anna-delvey-sorokin-differences-netflix-show-reality-2022-2#sorokin-left-rachel-williams-with-the-bill-for-that-morocco-trip-11">the jury acquitted Sorokin</a> of the prosecutors' charge alleging she stole from Williams.The so-called "SoHo scammer" was <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-sorokin-delvey-released-from-prison-2021-2">released from a New York jail in February 2021</a> after serving about three-and-a-half years in prison. Sorokin is <a href="https://www.insider.com/inventing-anna-netflix-where-is-real-anna-delvey-sorokin-jail-2022-2">now in ICE custody due to immigration issues.</a> She shared her thoughts about the Netflix show as well as her experience behind bars in a <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-delvey-writes-about-inventing-anna-and-life-in-jail-2022-2">recent essay for Insider</a>."Inventing Anna" is available to stream now on Netflix.

Anna Sorokin's real-life friend Neff Davis says she still picks up the fake heiress' phone calls if she's 'bored' but was forced to 'set boundaries'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are both mentioned in "Inventing Anna" on Netflix.</li><li>Anna Sorokin flew private to Berkshire's annual meeting without paying the $35,000 cost of the jet.</li></ul>Warren Buffett looms surprisingly large in the "Inventing Anna" series on Netflix, released in February 2022. The show dramatizes the real-life exploits of Anna Sorokin — a <a href="https://www.insider.com/netflix-paid-anna-delvey-sorokin-tv-series-victim-fund-2021-1">convicted fraudster</a> who posed as a German heiress named Anna Delvey, charmed her way into the New York elite, bilked banks, hotels, restaurants, and others out of more than $200,000, and tried to fool a hedge fund into loaning her $25 million.Buffett, a billionaire investor and the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, originally featured in a <a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html">New York Magazine profile</a> of Sorokin, which the Netflix show is based on. In both the article and the show, Sorokin flies on a private jet, without paying, to Omaha, Nebraska to attend Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting. She also drops by a secret VIP gathering hosted by Buffett at the city zoo.Here's how the saga played out in New York magazine's telling, and in Netflix's dramatization:<h2>New York magazine's version:</h2>Sorokin told Neffatari Davis, the concierge at the Soho hotel where she lived, that a banker friend had signed her up to attend Berkshire's annual meeting in 2017. She had decided to bring along a friend who worked with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pharma-bro-who-is-he-martin-shkreli-convicted-2017-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">Martin Shkreli</a>, the disgraced hedge-fund manager nicknamed "Pharma Bro.""I'm going to see Warren Buffett," Sorokin told Davis, according to the magazine.Sorokin had met the CEO of Blade, a charter-jet booking service, at a party. She contacted him about booking a private jet, and Blade released a plane to take her from New Jersey to Omaha and back after it received a forged confirmation of a wire transfer, New York magazine reported. Sorokin avoided paying the $35,000 cost of the trip as a result, <a href="https://newyork.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14578484/2019/03/sorokin-sof.pdf">court filings show</a>.After her trip, the "Soho Grifter" told Davis the highlight was visiting the city's zoo, where she and her friends stumbled upon a private dinner hosted by Buffett. Sorokin claimed her group snuck in and mingled with Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and the other high-profile guests in attendance.<h2>The "Inventing Anna" version:</h2>In the show's fourth episode, Sorokin is invited by a banker friend to attend the Berkshire meeting. She emails a fictionalized version of Blade's CEO, requesting to book a private jet for the journey."She was going to Warren Buffett's house," the executive later tells Vivian Kent, a journalist investigating Sorokin. "She had to be good for the money."On the plane, Sorokin's friends tell her the "real VIPs" like Gates don't visit Omaha for the meeting; they travel to attend Buffett's "secret party," which is at the zoo this year. They skip the conference to attend it, but Sorokin is turned away by the party's security guards because she doesn't have the right ticket to get in.Earlier in the episode, Kent marvels at Sorokin's audacity."This rich people money festival is like banker heaven," she says. "This is Warren Buffett's annual Coachella. She steals a plane to hang out with the richest men in the world?"<h2>Where is Sorokin now?</h2>Sorokin was found guilty of eight charges related to theft and larceny in April 2018. She was sentenced to pay $199,000 in restitution, and to spend between four and 12 years in prison.She was released early last year, and has paid $223,000 in restitution and state fines using the money she received from Netflix for her story rights. Blade received about two-thirds of the amount it was owed.Immigration officers detained Sorokin weeks after her release for overstaying her visa. She's now under house arrest and <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-delvey-writes-about-inventing-anna-and-life-in-jail-2022-2?utmSource=twitter&amp;utmContent=referral&amp;utmTerm=topbar&amp;referrer=twitter">still waiting</a> to learn if she'll be deported to Germany.Sorokin, Berkshire, and Blade didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

The 'Inventing Anna' fraudster took a $35,000 private-jet trip to Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting without paying - and said she crashed Warren Buffett's VIP party

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11915967" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="warren-buffett" source="Orion">Warren Buffett</keyword> and <keyword id="11915968" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="berkshire-hathaway" source="Orion">Berkshire Hathaway</keyword> are both mentioned in "<keyword id="12387923" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="inventing-anna" source="Orion">Inventing Anna</keyword>" on Netflix.</li><li>Anna Sorokin flew private to Berkshire's annual meeting without paying the $35,000 cost of the jet.</li></ul>Warren Buffett looms surprisingly large in the new "Inventing Anna" series on Netflix. The show dramatizes the real-life exploits of Anna Sorokin — a <a href="https://www.insider.com/netflix-paid-anna-delvey-sorokin-tv-series-victim-fund-2021-1">convicted fraudster</a> who posed as a German heiress named <keyword id="12215464" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="anna-delvey" source="Orion">Anna Delvey</keyword>, charmed her way into the New York elite, bilked banks, hotels, restaurants, and others out of more than $200,000, and tried to fool a hedge fund into loaning her $25 million.Buffett, a billionaire investor and the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, originally featured in a <a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html">New York Magazine profile</a> of Sorokin, which the Netflix show is based on. In both the article and the show, Sorokin flies on a private jet, without paying, to Omaha, Nebraska to attend Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting. She also drops by a secret VIP gathering hosted by Buffett at the city zoo.Here's how the saga played out in New York magazine's telling, and in Netflix's dramatization:<h2>New York magazine's version:</h2>Sorokin told Neffatari Davis, the concierge at the Soho hotel where she lived, that a banker friend had signed her up to attend Berkshire's annual meeting in 2017. She had decided to bring along a friend who worked with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pharma-bro-who-is-he-martin-shkreli-convicted-2017-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">Martin Shkreli</a>, the disgraced hedge-fund manager nicknamed "Pharma Bro.""I'm going to see Warren Buffett," Sorokin told Davis, according to the magazine.Sorokin had met the CEO of <keyword id="12476545" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="blade" source="Orion">Blade</keyword>, a charter-jet booking service, at a party. She contacted him about booking a private jet, and Blade released a plane to take her from New Jersey to Omaha and back after it received a forged confirmation of a wire transfer, New York magazine reported. Sorokin avoided paying the $35,000 cost of the trip as a result, <a href="https://newyork.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14578484/2019/03/sorokin-sof.pdf">court filings show</a>.After her trip, the "Soho Grifter" told Davis the highlight was visiting the city's zoo, where she and her friends stumbled upon a private dinner hosted by Buffett. Sorokin claimed her group snuck in and mingled with Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and the other high-profile guests in attendance.<h2>The "Inventing Anna" version:</h2>In the show's fourth episode, Sorokin is invited by a banker friend to attend the Berkshire meeting. She emails a fictionalized version of Blade's CEO, requesting to book a private jet for the journey."She was going to Warren Buffett's house," the executive later tells Vivian Kent, a journalist investigating Sorokin. "She had to be good for the money."On the plane, Sorokin's friends tell her the "real VIPs" like Gates don't visit Omaha for the meeting; they travel to attend Buffett's "secret party," which is at the zoo this year. They skip the conference to attend it, but Sorokin is turned away by the party's security guards because she doesn't have the right ticket to get in.Earlier in the episode, Kent marvels at Sorokin's audacity."This rich people money festival is like banker heaven," she says. "This is Warren Buffett's annual Coachella. She steals a plane to hang out with the richest men in the world?"<h2>Where is Sorokin now?</h2>Sorokin was found guilty of eight charges related to theft and larceny in April 2018. She was sentenced to pay $199,000 in restitution, and to spend between four and 12 years in prison.She was released early last year, and has paid $223,000 in restitution and state fines using the money she received from Netflix for her story rights. Blade received about two-thirds of the amount it was owed.Immigration officers detained Sorokin weeks after her release for overstaying her visa. She's <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-delvey-writes-about-inventing-anna-and-life-in-jail-2022-2?utmSource=twitter&amp;utmContent=referral&amp;utmTerm=topbar&amp;referrer=twitter">still waiting</a> to learn if she'll be deported to Germany.Sorokin, Berkshire, and Blade didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

'Inventing Anna' fraudster took a $35,000 private-jet trip to Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting without paying &mdash; and said she crashed Warren Buffett's VIP party

<keyword id="12215463" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="anna-sorokin" source="Orion">Anna Sorokin</keyword> — aka <keyword id="12215464" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="anna-delvey" source="Orion">Anna Delvey</keyword> — was convicted in 2019 for a scam in which she pretended to be an heiress with a $60 million fortune. Her story is the subject of the Shonda Rhimes-produced Netflix limited series "<keyword id="12387923" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="inventing-anna" source="Orion">Inventing Anna</keyword>."Anna Sorokin — aka Anna Delvey — is sitting in a jail cell in upstate New York. After a period between 2013 and 2017 when she scammed New York's downtown socialite scene as a fake German heiress, a jury found her guilty of grand larceny, among other charges, in connection with her scheme. <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-delvey-lawyer-interview-trial-scam-2019-4">Sorokin said she had a legitimate business plan</a> for a project called the Anna Delvey Foundation. Her lawyer <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-delvey-sorokin-trial-morocco-trip-villa-kardashian-2019-3">said she was trying to fake it 'til she made it</a>.On February 11, Netflix will release "Inventing Anna," a nine-episode limited series <a href="https://www.insider.com/netflix-paid-anna-delvey-sorokin-life-story-rights-2019-4">based on Sorokin's exploits</a> and the journalist Jessica Pressler's <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html">New York magazine article</a> that made her famous. Julia Garner, <a href="https://www.insider.com/inventing-anna-netflix-cast-real-people-photos-anna-sorokin-2022-2">who plays Sorokin</a>, <a href="https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/julia-garner-ozark-inventing-anna-interview">has said</a> she and producer Shonda Rhimes visited Sorokin in prison while preparing the show.The show traces how Sorokin grafted herself onto Manhattan's business and art worlds by claiming she had a $60 million trust fund in Europe, scammed her way through expensive trips, hotels, and restaurants, while leaving everyone else with the bills, and the elaborate lengths she went to keep her operation going.Police arrested Sorokin in 2017, and she spent about two years in jail on Rikers Island before her jury conviction. She served about another two years at Albion Correctional Facility in upstate New York until her release in<a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-sorokin-delvey-interview-after-prison-release-2021-2"> February 2021</a>. Sorokin was <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-sorokin-delvey-ice-custody-germany-deportation-2021-4">rearrested by ICE six weeks later</a> for overstaying her visa and has <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-sorokin-immigration-limbo-ice-custody-2021-10">remained in its custody since</a> as she waits to see if she'll be deported to Germany.Below, Sorokin writes about her experience in prison, getting COVID-19 in jail, and having a Netflix show about her made while she sits behind bars.While the world is pondering <a href="https://www.insider.com/julia-garner-anna-sorokin-accent-inventing-anna-netflix-2022-1">Julia Garner's take on my accent</a> in "Inventing Anna," a Netflix show about me, the real me sits in a cell in Orange County's jail in upstate New York, in quarantine isolation.I am here because <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-sorokin-immigration-limbo-ice-custody-2021-10">Immigration and Customs Enforcement decided</a> that my <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-sorokin-delvey-released-from-prison-2021-2">early merit release from prison</a> means nothing to them and, despite being perfectly self-sufficient when left to my own (legal) devices, I, in fact, present "a continuous danger to the community." Apparently, Daily Mail headlines are admissible evidence that override the decisions of the New York State Board of Parole and can be used to back up the Department of Homeland Security's arguments that instead of getting a job, I was "busy getting my hair done" — me and my bad ways.While I was in prison, I <a href="https://www.insider.com/netflix-paid-anna-delvey-sorokin-tv-series-victim-fund-2021-1">paid off the restitution from my criminal case in full</a> to the banks I took money from. I also accomplished more in the six weeks they deemed were long enough for me to remain free than some people have in the past two years. My <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-delvey-rikers-island-trial">visa overstay</a> was unintentional and largely out of my control. I served my prison sentence, but I'm appealing my criminal conviction to clear my name. I did not break a single one of New York state's or ICE's parole rules. Despite all that, I've yet to be given a clear and fair path to compliance.Did I mention I'm the only woman in ICE custody in this whole jail? Tell me I'm special without telling me I'm special."The court finds that, even if released from detention and ordered to report regularly to ICE, the respondent would have the ability and inclination to continue to commit fraudulent and dishonest acts," an immigration judge ruled. "She clearly possesses the knowledge to do so and has failed to demonstrate remorse." Sorry, am I on trial for this again?So no — it doesn't look like I'll be watching "Inventing Anna" anytime soon. Even if I were to pull some strings and make it happen, nothing about seeing a fictionalized version of myself in this criminal-insane-asylum setting sounds appealing to me.<div type="image" title="Julia Garner Anna Sorokin Delvey Inventing Anna" height="2000" width="2666" msid="89305659" hostid="261"></div>I still remember the night of <a href="https://abc.com/shows/2020/episode-guide/2021-10/01-the-sinfluencer-of-soho">ABC's "20/20" episode</a> about me in October. It was also unfortunately the night when the meds come really late, so everyone was up waiting and watched it.It's hard to explain what I hate about it. I just don't want to be trapped with these people dissecting my character, even though no one ever says anything bad. If anything, everyone's really encouraging, but in this cheap way and for all the wrong reasons. Like, they love all the clothes and boats and cash tips. I saw only the first couple minutes before I went back into my cell. I was definitely not going to sit there and watch it with everybody. And I don't need any more jail friends, thank you very much.For a long while, I was hoping that by the time "Inventing Anna" came out, I would've moved on with my life. I imagined for the show to be a conclusion of sorts summing up and closing of a long chapter that had come to an end.Nearly four years in the making and hours of phone conversations and visits later, the show is based on my story and told from a journalist's perspective. And while I'm curious to see how they interpreted all the research and materials provided, I can't help but feel like an afterthought, the somber irony of being confined to a cell at yet another horrid correctional facility lost between the lines, the history repeating itself.Admittedly, I, the ultimate unreliable narrator, have made some questionable choices that I wouldn't necessarily repeat today.Do these decisions inevitably make me a permanent threat to public safety? The government says yes.But in comparison with whom? Everything's relative.It makes no sense for me to still be here long after they have brought in and then released numerous violent offenders (robbers, rapists, would-be murderers) and people with an assortment of felony DUIs and grand larcenies. Do they not "clearly possess the knowledge" to recommit the same crimes they've been accused of before, or do different standards apply to them?Meanwhile, I spent another set of holidays followed by a COVID-19-tainted birthday in a depressing cell, which therefore logically categorized me as more dangerous than every single one of those people. In that case, it's totally understandable why I shouldn't be allowed out of my cell for weeks at a time. Who'd want to take the risk?After I finished my prison sentence and left Albion, I thought all this was over, forever, and that I'd never see the inside of another correctional institution again.Shortly afterward, I found myself in the Orange County jail by way of Bergen County Jail, where everything triggers constant flashbacks. Altogether, I've been through seven different facilities for one single case. It's like "Groundhog Day."I never complained about a lot of things. From the very beginning of my journey incarcerated in the state of New York, I thought people just wanted to see me be miserable.The same hand consistently finds its way to your knee, lingers on your calves, grabs your ankles, wrists, waist: cuffs, chains, bruises on the same spots. It's all for the sake of security, of course.Be cool. Don't be annoying. I was considered "not a regular white girl, like the rest of them here." I tried to be a "good sport," and it got me things. Not always but most of the time. Small stuff — enough to be competitive about. I got away with things others didn't. It's not that I wanted their validation. It was more that I didn't want to deal with the consequences of not having it.I didn't say anything when they brought article printouts and tearouts from papers and magazines, in a jail where the New York Daily <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">News</keyword> is being policed daily and purged of any mentions of Rikers and any of its inmates in "media review."A lot of this nonabuse is subtle, shaped by an understanding that in jail, you are a problem that needs to be dealt with.What you won't see in the Netflix show is my newly acquired habit. I have to methodically bite the skin around my nails until the nail beds slowly fill with blood from both sides, collect at the tip, which I then squeeze until there's enough to drip down the sink of the cell with opaque white-spray-painted windows I spend 91.2% of my day in. Rinse and repeat. It doesn't accomplish anything tangible, other than dulling an obsessive fixation on another wasted day that I'll never get back. And I can't just stop.In jail, I quickly gave up on the concept of privacy. How many people can really say they are fully in control of theirs, anyway?And most importantly — didn't I put myself here?Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, on January 19, I tested positive for COVID-19.I'm sure I'll live, but I haven't been this sick in years.The jail's response to a positive test is to just lock you up. It's convenient for them. It all shall pass, no? The majority of people here quickly caught on and stopped complaining about symptoms out of fear of getting locked in. The staff insists on using the words "<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/04/1043058599/rising-amid-covid-solitary-confinement-inflicts-lasting-harm-to-prisoner-health">medical isolation</a>," even though there's nothing medical about it. One is simply being made to sit in a cell with a hole in the door. This place is like a Petri dish for viruses and bacteria. The only fun is listening to dim-witted sergeants come up with 50 different ways to tell you no.There is always a good reason for everything. They're understaffed and tired, and there is a hundred-day backlog (Of what? No one ever specifies.), which apparently is supposed to be my problem, even though I never asked to be here. I don't recall any delays or backlogs in me getting arrested.I haven't seen a real doctor in over four years. Dismissive nurses who suspect everyone just wants to get high and would do anything to obtain generic meds don't count.It's designed this way, the jail. They take away your choices, and give you the worst, so next time you'll think twice before stabbing your neighbor — or overstaying your visa.During my latest ICE bond hearing, in October, it was the government's burden to prove I would be a danger to my community if I were released.They presented no evidence to demonstrate my alleged insatiable drive for continued criminal exposure. With eight remaining years of parole supervision apparently not being a good enough deterrent, and in absence of anything better, what they did find was an Instagram post from 2018 — an old picture of <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html">my friend Neff</a> and me on a rooftop in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, posted by her to my account with the location tagged as "Rikers Island maximum security prison" (which isn't even a thing), as a throwback joke. (Editor's Note: Neffatari Davis is Anna's friend and a consultant on "Inventing Anna," and was extensively quoted in the New York magazine story.)The picture started multiple internal and NYPD investigations, none of which yielded results. I never got as much as a written infraction.It was refreshing to find out that for an agency that thrives on flaunting all kinds of rules, ICE created very few restrictions for its own operations.It's hard to prepare or submit any evidence for the court's consideration when you find out about the hearing 10 minutes before it takes place. Is it fair to call me "unpredictable" if you never gave me a chance to create stability?The most recent twist from ICE is that I've been waiting since November for a decision "to reissue" a letter that never arrived here. It should be an easy thing to determine considering all my mail is being logged. Who knows how much longer it will take to think this over — a month, six months, a year?Such decisions can't be rushed. And as long as the threat to public safety is secured in a cell, who cares?Many of the inmates here don't speak a word of English but are released into the community without as much as an ankle bracelet or token bail. I'm genuinely glad for them. The majority I've encountered seem like kind and well-meaning people who happen to have made a couple of mistakes. But I doubt any of them meet the standards of financial stability and property ownership ICE has used to keep me in here.Most Americans think of Mexico when they hear "ICE." No wonder — the mainstream media is flooded with news where <keyword id="12153787" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="immigration-and-customs-enforcement" source="Orion">Immigration and Customs Enforcement</keyword> is mentioned mainly in the context of deportations and detentions of minorities.During my time in this jail (where I'm in general population with others who are in regular criminal proceedings), I've learned that most people don't even realize ICE deals with every immigrant, not just enforcement of the southern border. I've heard numerous variations of, "I didn't realize you were Mexican. You really can't tell!" and, "It's crazy that they can hold you for this long, and you aren't even from Mexico."The revelation that you didn't have to be Hispanic to have all kinds of problems with ICE seemed to register as genuine surprise.Some go a step further and offer friendly advice: "Did you know there's an office in the city where you can renew your visa? Did you ask your lawyer?" Yes, and then I kind of <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/03/31/anna-sorokin-in-ice-custody-after-reporting-to-immigration-authorities/">got arrested at that office</a>.Will I forever be judged by my early-to-mid 20s? Is there anything else I could possibly have done to close this chapter?Will I forever be stuck in a past not entirely of my creation without getting a chance to move on? How many years of reflecting on an overdrawn bank account are socially acceptable before one is allowed to open another one?How many ancient VHS tapes does one have to watch before one's considered reformed?

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Anna Sorokin's real-life friend Neff Davis opens up about the 'racist' comments she's gotten from people who think she 'kissed Anna's ass too much'

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Anna Sorokin's real-life friend Neff Davis says she still picks up the fake heiress' phone calls if she's 'bored' but was forced to 'set boundaries'

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The 'Inventing Anna' fraudster took a $35,000 private-jet trip to Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting without paying - and said she crashed Warren Buffett's VIP party

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'Inventing Anna' fraudster took a $35,000 private-jet trip to Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting without paying and said she crashed Warren Buffett's VIP party

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Erasing Anna: From ICE detention, Anna Delvey talks about her new Netflix show and life behind bars

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The Anna Delvey Industrial Complex and me

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