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How ‘socialite’ Anna Delvey conned and scammed Manhattan’s in-crowd NewsColony NOW the subject of a new Netflix series, Anna Delvey lived the life of a privileged Manhattan socialite, but everything about this young woman was a lie – even her name. Seeing her friend Anna Delvey walk into a New York bar in August 2017, Rachel DeLoache Williams took a deep breath and steeled herself. 12 Anna Delvey conned and scammed Manhattan’s in-crowd Credit: The Mega Agency “I’d invited Anna to meet under the pretence of having cocktails, but really I wanted to know when I’d receive the £50,000 she owed me,” says Rachel, 31, a journalist. “My ‘friend’ was actually a fraudster who’d conned banks, hotels and the entire New York party circuit into thinking she was an heiress set to inherit £45million when she turned 25.” In reality, Anna’s real name was Anna Vadimovna Sorokin, born to working-class parents just outside Moscow in 1991 before growing up in Germany. Charged with grand larcen...