“There’s nothing like the experience of bringing together a curated group of friends to share life stories and enjoy a great culinary experience,” Sorokin said in a statement. In addition to conversations around the dinner table, the show will feature interviews with both Sorokin and her guests. The new series will invite viewers behind-the-scenes as she “reinvents herself and her name”–something at which Anna is definitely an expert. “There, a Delvey-invited group of actors, musicians, founders, socialites, journalists and other esteemed guests will join her each week around a private-chef catered table replete with candid conversations where no topic is off-limits – including Anna’s experience within the criminal justice system, her strategy to rebuild her image and her plans for the future.” Anna Delvey Sorokin after release from Rikers Island. “She’ll do it through what’s already become one of the hottest tables in town - invitation-only, intimate dinners at her home,” according to the press release. Read the first part in full here.Released from ICE in October 2022, Sorokin, seemingly like other celebrities like Harry and Meghan, wants to tell her story her way, in the new show. In the meantime, she promises that part two of her prison diary is “coming soon”. Initially given a four to 12-year term, Delvey (real name Anna Sorokin) is now due to walk free as early as February 2021. “The only thing that I didn’t expect is that Anna is really funny,” Garner recently said, after meeting her to prepare for the role. “Being in prison mostly feels like extended quarantining,” the entry begins, “only with a bunch of murderers, and we still can get our hair done.”Ī lot of the time, in fact, it’s difficult to distinguish where the irony ends and the more serious comments begin (but then, she did make her name for herself by leading a double life). Of COVID-19 – which has had a disproportionate impact on inmates in many prisons – she writes: “one day, corona was just another thing for the free world to handle, and the next day my yoga teacher is gone for good.”Įlsewhere, she relates getting her hands on an Hermès blanket “after twenty-two failed attempts”, and riffs on prison food: “when I'm being casually told that granola bars are being replaced with powdered donuts, it's extra hard to maintain hope and stay positive.”īack in late September, we also got a first glimpse at the upcoming TV series based on Delvey’s now-notorious schemes, which will star Ozark’s Julia Garner. Titled “Life is Hard: Enduring COVID-19 in an Upstate NY Prison”, the first instalment of the prison diary was teased via Instagram – where Delvey has provided sporadic updates since being jailed – and posted to a dedicated website earlier today (November 25).Īs is to be expected from someone that celebrated their early parole with a Legally Blonde clip, the writing provides a pretty wry look at prison life. While she’s not taking visitors, it seems she has been putting her time behind bars to good use, recently announcing a new blog. Anna Delvey, the notorious ( and unapologetic) scammer who posed as an heiress to charm her way into New York City’s social elite, is still serving a prison sentence for swindling banks into lending her money with her fake fortune.
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