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Anna delvey neff7/14/2023 ![]() ![]() Despite some obvious warning signs (like the fact that Anna never had a working credit card on file at 11 Howard, and those wire transfers she promised never quite turning up), Neff herself had no reason to suspect anything was amiss, because she knew Anna was good for it. Anna was quickly treating Neff to expensive meals, hangouts with socialites, designer clothes, and promises of luxury getaways before being arrested in Malibu, apparently after a stint in rehab. Meet Neffatari "Neff" Davis, the 25-year-old Millennial Everywoman in the story's center, who simply clocked in at the concierge desk of Soho luxury hotel 11 Howard (the one Anna stayed in for months before skipping the bill), and found herself embroiled in Anna's whirlwind of white collar scamming. The viral, instantly iconic New York magazine feature by Jessica Pressler detailing the series of events is pretty much stuff of legend, and by extension, practically tailor-made for Hollywood. By the too-wild-to-be-true tale's end, she was homeless, wandering downtown Manhattan in threadbare Alexander Wang, dealing with the fallout of a disastrous trip to Marrakech and destroyed friendships. No one knew who she was or where she came from, but she, like her unkempt mane of tresses, blew into town like a hurricane, sporting CĂ©line sunglasses and draped in Rick Owens and Supreme athleisure to charm and scam her way through New York's elite social scene. Everyone is forever talking about twenty-something Anna "Delvey" Sorokin, the fraudulent Russian "heiress" who pretended to be German, created a fake family accountant with an AOL email address, and swindled untold thousands of dollars from investor lenders, NYC's hottest hotels, members of the fashion elite, and even those who were her closest friends.
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