Did Netflix Pay The Real Anna Delvey?
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Netflix is again at it once more with true-crime documentaries and drama. This time, they're taking viewers to the Scam Summer of 2019 — the time of the Fyre Festival fiasco whose docu-film Fyre aired previous in 2019. The streaming platform recently released The Tinder Swindler which follows the story of three women scammed by a phony Diamond billionaire. It used to be briefly followed via Shonda Rhimes' Inventing Anna, a restricted sequence about pretend German heiress Anna Delvey, whose real title is Anna Sorokin.
After studying that the Tinder Swindler continues to live the high life these days, fanatics started to wonder whether Netflix paid Sorokin for her life tale, particularly now that she's facing another legal battle. Here's the whole lot we learn about her involvement in the Shondaland drama.
Was Anna Sorokin Paid By Netflix For The Rights To Her Story?
In 2019, now not long after Sorokin was once convicted on a couple of counts of grand larceny and theft of products and services, Netflix paid her $320,000 for the rights to her life tale. However, she did not get her glamorous existence again due to every other lawsuit. The New York Attorney General's place of work immediately sued Sorokin, mentioning the Son of Sam legislation or notoriety-for-profit regulation. This led to the New York State freezing all her price range.
The law goals to "prevent those accused or convicted of a crime from profiting from the commercial exploitation of their crimes by contracting for the production of books, movies, magazine articles, television shows and the like in which their crime is reenacted" or by which "person's thoughts, feelings, opinions or emotions" about the crime is depicted. The regulation used to be passed when '70s serial killer David Berkowitz attracted a lot of media attention, in the end main him to promote exclusive rights to his story.
However, when Sorokin briefly got out of jail in February 2021, the New York State unfroze her budget, so she will pay off her debts. She paid a complete of $269,000 in restitution to banks and $24,000 for state fines. "While I was in prison, I paid off the restitution from my criminal case in full to the banks I took money from," Sorokin wrote on Insider in February 2022.
Is Anna Sorokin Still In Prison Today?
Sorokin began her essay for Insider by saying that "while the world is pondering Julia Garner's take on my accent 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." But it isn't the same jail she was brought into following her 2019 conviction. Due to just right habits, she was launched on parole in February 2021 after serving 3 years of her four-to-12-year sentence. After six weeks, immigration authorities arrested her once more for overstaying her visa.
"My visa overstay was unintentional and largely out of my control. I served my prison sentence, but I'm appealing my criminal conviction to clear my name," Sorokin mentioned of her arrest. "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."
Recently, she took to Instagram to announce that she's searching for a lawyer to help save her from getting deported. In the meantime, she appears to be discovering "special" things about being in ICE custody. "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," she wrote.
What Does Anna Sorokin Really Feel About 'Inventing Anna'?
"It doesn't look like I'll be watching Inventing Anna anytime soon," Sorokin wrote in her essay. "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." She added that she hates the "cheap way" enthusiasts are rooting for her because of the show. "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," she mentioned.
"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," Sorokin persisted. "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." She was hoping that through the time Inventing Anna came out, she would've already moved on with her lifestyles.
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