Can we talk about Anna Delvey?

[goldengirlz]

May 30, 2018 15:47:47 GMT -5 bears said:

May 30, 2018 15:39:42 GMT -5 goldengirlz said:

I also wondered how she kept her job though. Even if you have a corporate card, you still need to file expense reports (at least everywhere I’ve ever worked!)

The only thing I could think of is perhaps photogs and reporters at fashion magazines are encouraged to do this on some level (show up at fancy places and mingle with socialites) and she told an editor she might get a story out of this.

In my last job, you were allowed to make personal charges on your corporate card. It was generally discouraged, since it was messy.

I think most jobs wouldn't care too much, as long as it was paid off. It wasn't clear to me how Rachel paid AmEx.

She wrote that she had something $400 in her checking account. I have no idea how she paid them back either. I guess I assumed she left them with the bill, but maybe not.

[Michael Scott]

I hope Debbie Gallagher plays her in the biopic.

[averyjessup]

Amex does charge cards in addition to credit cards as well, so you can put any amount you want on them but they have to be paid in full every month.

I’ve only read the article in New York magazine but that Rachel girl was the one person I felt sorry for. She must be less sympathetic in the other articles, lol.

ETA that was in response to how she might have a credit card with a limit that high. I can’t even imagine what happened when either her work got wind of it and/or the bill came due.

[AJL]

May 30, 2018 14:24:50 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

The cut article implied her friend who works at Vanity Fair put the whole $62,000 Morocco trip on her work AmEx and I was like "How did she not get fired?!" Also, how does she have a work AmEx like that when she appears to make about $60k/year? And if not her work AmEx, how does she have a personal AmEx with that limit that exceeds her income? Am I out of the credit card loop?

When I was working, I had a corporate AMEX card that had no limit. I used it when I would secure booth spaces for trade shows (we usually reserved 2000 - 3000 sq ft spaces and it was about $60,000-$75,000) or F&B for our corporate customer appreciation parties (sometimes as much as $125K.)  I only made about $50,000 a year.  The card was in my name and as long as I paid off the balance, I could charge whatever I wanted to it. Of course, I couldn't expense anything that was personal, but anything business related was reimbursed and I'd get that directly deposited into my personal bank account and I would pay off the statement each month.  I don't know if they still do things that way, but it doesn't surprise me that she could have a business credit card that she could charge $62,000 on. 

[jezebel]

There is no way I would have given that hotel my damn credit card. Nope.

[CheeringCharm]

Whoever eventually buys the rights to make a movie out of her life should get Lindsay Lohan to star in it lol

[miniroller]

May 31, 2018 6:41:55 GMT -5 CheeringCharm said:

Whoever eventually buys the rights to make a movie out of her life should get Lindsay Lohan to star in it lol

Ha! ❤️ Lindsey Lohan with an illegitimate German/ European-ish accent. Sigh.

[shauni27]

I had a dream that I was Anna Delvey last night and was conning my way through various cities being rich and fancy. It was odd.

[katieinthecity]

For most of the New York piece I thought she was a fraud and a scam artist, but the interview with her at Rikers makes it sound like she's a full on sociopath.

I wonder if the movie has been optioned yet.

[Kristinmo]

Shonda is developing this into a Netflix series.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/shonda-rhimes-sets-anna-delvey-series-as-first-netflix-project-1118617

[orangello]

Jun 8, 2018 20:08:27 GMT -5 Kristinmo said:

Shonda is developing this into a Netflix series.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/shonda-rhimes-sets-anna-delvey-series-as-first-netflix-project-1118617

This is gonna be GOOD!

[elleblue]

Jun 8, 2018 20:08:27 GMT -5 Kristinmo said:

Shonda is developing this into a Netflix series.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/shonda-rhimes-sets-anna-delvey-series-as-first-netflix-project-1118617

Oh I will be watching. 👍

[mrsd2006]

Reviving a zombie thread, this trial has started.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6855203/Woman-accused-fraud-German-heiress-ruse.html

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Mar 27, 2019 15:31:13 GMT -5 mrsd2006 said:

Reviving a zombie thread, this trial has started.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6855203/Woman-accused-fraud-German-heiress-ruse.html

I was hoping it was revived because there was going to be a podcast about it. Actually, why isn’t there a podcast about this??? Get on it, Wondery or CBC or whomever!

[pugz]

Uggh sorry for all the likes, did not realize this was a zombie thread!

[pixy0stix]

The lawyer is arguing that it was unethical, but not illegal? LOLOLOLOL! Sure. Ok.

[thejen626]

I’m so excited for this show! I love the actress from Ozark.

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/julia-garner-anna-delvey-netflix-shonda-assistant?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bffbbuzzfeed&ref=bffbbuzzfeed

[centralsquare]

Feb 2, 2020 15:40:59 GMT -5 thejen626 said:

I’m so excited for this show! I love the actress from Ozark.

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/julia-garner-anna-delvey-netflix-shonda-assistant?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bffbbuzzfeed&ref=bffbbuzzfeed

She’s so good. Sometimes people jump out at you in smalL roles. She was striking as Kimmy on The Americans, and she’s fantastic on Ozark. I’m excited to see The Assistant and this crazy con lady story.

[pixy0stix]

Bumping this thread to say that Inventing Anna is so good.

[fryjack2]

May 27, 2022 16:38:34 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Bumping this thread to say that Inventing Anna is so good.

H and I have been quoting lines from the series for a couple months now, SNL style. 

I live in the same place that the fake Clark Rockefeller lived and that story was bananas then.  Reading about Anna a few years ago, and then watching the series is fascinating in a terrifying way.  Sociopaths. 

[sonrisa]

May 30, 2018 22:06:14 GMT -5 jezebel said:

There is no way I would have given that hotel my damn credit card. Nope.

I would absolutely give them a credit card rather than face a Moroccan prison. That's a bigger nope for me than insolvency. 

[shauni27]

May 28, 2022 9:09:54 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

May 27, 2022 16:38:34 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Bumping this thread to say that Inventing Anna is so good.

wait, WHAT?! I live in his town; my sister was his daughter's nanny! 

[pixy0stix]

I completely finished the series, and I know it was fictionalized, but I'm stuck on them condemning the parents for cutting her out of their life. I'm wondering why the reporter didn't connect the weird tales about her parents to Anna. In the end, it felt like the reporter thought Anna's dad was still rich but hiding it.

[fryjack2]

shauni27 That's crazy! 

[shauni27]

pixy0stix I finally finished last night and it was so good. I really liked it. I am going down a rabbit hole now about Rachel to learn more about her because the show really had me both sympathize with her and dislike her at the same time.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

Jun 2, 2022 7:06:04 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

pixy0stix I finally finished last night and it was so good. I really liked it. I am going down a rabbit hole now about Rachel to learn more about her because the show really had me both sympathize with her and dislike her at the same time.

The show was a lot more sympathetic to her than her own book, IMO.  I came out of the book disliking her intensely and feeling like she brought an awful lot of it on herself, but then felt the same mix of dislike and (some!) sympathy for her while watching the show that you had.  Mostly, though, I thought everyone in this show was unlikable 95% of the time, except for the reporter's husband and the defense attorney's wife, both of whom were in full-on AYFKM at all times about all of it. I definitely did not feel badly about any of those people getting scammed out of their money.

[sonrisa]

She was a party girl who mooched off people, she skipped out on hotel bills, and she lied a lot. None of that is particularly unique. I feel like the writer fell down a rabbit hole convinced there was more there. when there wasn't, She worked hard to spin it to justify her fascination and time.

[shauni27]

5kcandlesinthewind, agreed re: the reporter's husband and attorney's wife. I felt so bad for them in the show that their partners were so obsessed with Anna. I did also like Neff and really was hoping that in real life Shonda would have had her be involved on the show a bit, like give her part of her big break.

sonrisa, 100000% agree. She became obsessed and was trying to figure out the WHY or something jucier to justify how obsessed she became. The Germany episode made me really solidified that.

[pixy0stix]

Jun 2, 2022 11:38:15 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

sonrisa , 100000% agree. She became obsessed and was trying to figure out the WHY or something jucier to justify how obsessed she became. The Germany episode made me really solidified that.

Exactly, and how she justified continuing supporting Anna because Anna's parents had cut her out of their lives. She couldn't see that she, too, had become a victim of Anna's. Or maybe she knew and didn't care?