She turned up in New York and said she was an heiress to a Russian billionaire family. She stayed in the best hotels, ate at the best restaurants and hung out with the coolest high society people. BUT IT WAS ALL FAKE AND NOW SHE'S IN PRISON. For scamming, well, pretty much everyone. Genius or con artist? Or both?

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We give you Just The Gist, but if you want to dive deeper, there's this:

The viral article from The Cut that first made Anna (in)famous: https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html

The Fake Heiress podcast from BBC: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fake-heiress/id1491349699

The book by Rachel DeLoache Williams: 'My Friend Anna': https://www.booktopia.com.au/my-friend-anna-rachel-deloache-williams/book/9781787478299.html

Anna Delvey's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theannadelvey/?hl=en

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