3/18/2023 0 Comments Playwatch magazine covers![]() ![]() It was with these meager materials that she created her artwork “No Regrets” for our “REBEL Issue” and Exhibition. Though supplies at the ICE detention center were certainly at a premium (no paper larger than nine by 12 was permitted), Delvey saw her work through “from idea to execution.” She created her original artwork as well as limited-edition prints using assorted scraps, like smuggled watercolor paper and a set of pens and colored pencils. To Delvey, it’s the present day that’s critical for setting the record straight – a task she hopes to accomplish through her longtime passion for art. She sees much of her history as a series of mistakes rather than the calculated set of fraudulent heists depicted in the media, but she’s no longer looking at the past. The communication she was afforded with the outside world was limited, but her team would post on social media on her behalf, and she could read the news on a limited-access prison-issued computer tablet. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and fighting a case against her deportation to Germany when she spoke to Indira Cesarine for The Untitled Magazine’s REBEL Issuein late August, Delvey was not entirely in a bubble. Williams also published My Friend Anna, an entire book on her time with Delvey that only furthered her story’s outlandish mythos. This time, incarceration was closely followed by an international rise to household name status, due in no small part to Inventing Anna, the three-time Emmy-nominated Netflix miniseries that told the Anna Delvey story as it was recalled in journalist Jessica Pressler’s viral article in The Cut. Six short weeks of freedom later, ICE detained her over her expired visa. When Williams later received only partial reimbursement from Delvey, she helped facilitate the NYPD sting operation that led to Delvey’s conviction and imprisonment.ĭespite her sentence of four to 12 years, Delvey was released after only a few years in prison for good behavior. Delvey convinced Williams to front the hotel bill after failing to pay it herself, in addition to a number of other charges for the trip. It all came to a head in May 2017 when Sorokin – better known by then as Delvey – invited friend and Vanity Fair editor Rachel DeLoache Williams, along with her videographer and personal trainer, on an “all-expenses paid” vacation to Morocco at the 5-star resort La Mamounia. As the popular media story goes, she infiltrated the upper echelons of New York City’s art and social scenes, often by having others pay for exorbitant hotel rooms, international flights, and other steep expenses. Russian-born and German-raised Anna Sorokin, daughter of a truck driver and a convenience store owner, made a name for herself in the mid-2010s off a false rumor that deemed her a German heiress. Anna Delvey, whose birth name is Anna Sorokin, released the artwork as a means of “reclaiming her narrative” in order to tell her story from her own perspective. “Not guilty.” Those two simple words, accompanied by “Anna Delvey,” adorn one of the infamous socialite’s latest artworks, scrawled in color pencil repeatedly on a single piece of paper. Anna Delvey Featured on the cover of The Untitled Magazine “REBEL Issue”
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