These 16 Facts About The Real People Behind "Inventing Anna" Are So Wild That I Think We Need A Season 2 So We Can See How They All Play Out
If you've watched Inventing Anna, you've probably gone on an internet deep dive or two looking for more facts about the people involved.
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Here are 16 more facts about the real people featured in Inventing Anna, and TBH, I think they're proof that we need a Season 2 ASAP:
1.After Anna was released from prison, she began filming a docuseries of her own.
2.She also dabbles in art, and made her post-prison return to Instagram with a series of sketches.
3.Anna got sent back to prison just six weeks after her initial release.
She was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after overstaying her visa, which she said was "unintentional and largely out of my control."
Anna has recently begun posting to Instagram from custody. If she loses her case, she will be deported back to Germany.
4.Anna and several other detainees are currently suing ICE in an ACLU lawsuit, claiming they all contracted COVID-19 because they were denied booster shots.
5.Before Anna started her scamming career, she went to Central Saint Martins, an elite fashion college in London.
She never graduated and instead moved to Paris, where she landed an internship at Purple magazine. During her internship, she visited New York for Fashion Week and fell in love with the city.
Anna was able to transfer to the Purple office in New York, and assumed the Anna Delvey persona soon after.
6.Anna now has a relationship with her parents and said she talks to them several times a week, although she admits that they are confused by her fame.
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“I talk to my parents a couple of times a week, and I guess they are learning to deal with the whole situation,” she told Insider.
Anna went on to say that their relationship as portrayed in Inventing Anna was pretty accurate. “I don’t feel like my parents were really involved in like day-to-day life,” she said. “Sometimes, they would not even know what country I’d be in. There would definitely be times [when] they didn’t know if I was in Paris, Germany, or the States.”
7.Neff Davis, who has remained close to Anna, said that she never felt betrayed by Anna's deception, and out of everything that happened, was the most upset that Anna never told her she was in need of a place to stay.
"Honestly, I was more upset she didn't tell me about her living situation, because I figured if we were friends, I would have let her stay with me," she told Paper magazine.
Davis, whose dream of becoming a filmmaker was featured in the show, served as a consultant on Inventing Anna, which she considers her big break.
8.Kacy Duke was one of the founders of Equinox, serving as the inaugural Group Fitness Director for the exclusive gym.
She even trained Laverne Cox, who portrayed Duke in the series.
9.Anna tried to reconnect with Kacy after she was released from prison, but Kacy was not having it.
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Anna wanted Kacy to appear in the docuseries she was filming, but Kacy refused, citing that she had already signed her contract with Netflix. Duke later learned that Anna had moved to the same neighborhood as her. When reporters began showing up in Duke's lobby, she figured that Anna had given them her address in an attempt to lure her out of her apartment.
"I said, 'If she comes up to me with a camera crew, I’m going to deck her… I don’t want to be responsible for what I’ll do,'" Duke told Vanity Fair. "For months, every time I left the house, I was so uncomfortable."
10.While the option to Rachel Williams' book My Friend Anna was purchased by Lena Dunham for development at HBO, the option has since expired and likely won't be hitting screens any time soon.
11.Anna claimed in a series of Instagram stories that before Rachel got her book deal, she approached Anna about writing a book together. Anna supposedly refused, and Rachel ended up writing the book on her own. Anna even said she has the receipts to back up her claims.
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"BEFORE she epically embarrassed herself during my trial and BEFORE Netflix forever cemented her (very accurate) total Karen image, her moral compass deemed it acceptable to suggest we write a book together. All while still pressing charges against me," Anna wrote. "She really thought she could have it all, didn’t she?"
12.Anna's lawyer, Todd Spodek, went on to represent a juror in the Ghislaine Maxwell case.
Scott David, who was chosen as a juror for the case, revealed that he was a victim of sexual assault to his fellow jurors during deliberation. This called in to question his ability to be unbiased during the conviction process. He retained Spodek as his lawyer while facing a potential perjury charge.
13.Anna Chlumsky's portrayal of the journalist behind the story wasn't the first time Jessica Pressler had been played onscreen.
Pressler's 2015 New York article "The Hustlers at Scores" was turned into the movie Hustlers in 2019. Julia Stiles played Elizabeth, a journalist based on Pressler, in the flick.
14.Jessica Pressler hoped that her trip to Germany to investigate Anna's home life would serve as the basis for a book about Anna.
Pressler's book, Bad Influence: Money, Lies, Power, and the World that Created Anna Delvey is set to release in June.
15.Nora Radford, played in the show by Kate Burton, isn't technically a real person, but Anna did steal credit card information from someone she considered a mentor, and charged over $40,000 to the card.
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16.Alan Reed, the finance lawyer Anna hires while trying to get her loans approved, was based on Andrew Lance, who guided the IRL Anna through the loan process.
Lance and Anna had a super-close relationship and spoke every day. In fact, Anna praised him to Pressler, saying, "He knows how to talk to women. And he would explain to me the right amount, without being patronizing. He was there all the time. He would answer in the middle of the night, or when he was in Turks and Caicos for Christmas."