{"id":1322601,"date":"2022-02-21T07:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T12:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1322601"},"modified":"2022-02-21T13:08:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T18:08:57","slug":"then-she-wouldnt-leave-anna-delvey-allegedly-scammed-billy-mcfarland-before-his-fyre-festival-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/then-she-wouldnt-leave-anna-delvey-allegedly-scammed-billy-mcfarland-before-his-fyre-festival-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Then She Wouldn\u2019t Leave\u2019: Anna Delvey Allegedly Scammed Billy McFarland Before His Fyre Festival Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthen-she-wouldnt-leave-anna-delvey-allegedly-scammed-billy-mcfarland-before-his-fyre-festival-debacle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1322601&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/Delvey-and-McFarland.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The latest Netflix sensation comes courtesy of Shonda Rhimes. The well-known producer took the story of a wannabe socialite who went to jail for scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars and turned it into a limited series that somehow glamorized Anna (Delvey) Sorokin\u2019s story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sorokin pretended to be a German heiress named Anna Delvey to trick banks, businesses, and friends into giving her hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and merchandise, not to mention hotel stays. She was convicted of multiple counts of larceny and theft in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s hard to tell what\u2019s true and what isn\u2019t while watching the Netflix series \u201cInventing Anna.\u201d That\u2019s by design as the tagline for the project is, \u201cThis whole story is completely true, except for all the parts that are totally made up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There\u2019s at least one point of the saga that isn\u2019t made up, however. Fans got a chuckle out of Sorokin spending time staying with Billy McFarland as he was planning the now infamous disaster music event Fyre Festival. Considering the fact that Sorokin is a convicted con artist, it would make perfect sense that she was hanging with someone like McFarland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But Sorokin allegedly scammed McFarland before Fyre Festival ever happened. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2018\/07\/23\/socialite-swindler-may-have-bilked-fyre-festival-fraudster\/\"><span>Page Six<\/span><\/a><span>, the faux German heiress \u201cmoved into the Wooster Street headquarters of McFarland\u2019s dubious credit card company Magnises for four months.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnna knew people on Billy\u2019s team,\u201d an insider told the publication. \u201cShe just asked to stay for a few days \u2026 then she wouldn\u2019t leave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShe hung out and went to the parties,\u201d the source continued. \u201cShe was there, just sitting there \u2014 all the time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShe had Balenciaga bags and clothes everywhere,\u201d other sources told Page Six. \u201cThe company wound up moving into a townhouse. That\u2019s the only way they got her out! She had been there for four months!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This was familiar behavior for Sorokin. She was also accused of moving into Manhattan\u2019s 11 Howard boutique hotel for many months while dodging the bill. \u201cInventing Anna\u201d showed the native Russian insisting that a wire transfer was coming for payment, but that money never arrived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, McFarland went on to achieve notoriety for staging Fyre Festival and pulling a very similar scam to what Sorokin did. The hustler used fake documents to trick investors into sinking more than $26 million into the ill-fated festival, which featured attendees being forced to sleep in FEMA tents with terrible food and no concert ever taking place. The con led to McFarland getting charged with wire fraud and sentenced to six years in prison.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The series \u201cInventing Anna\u201d and its creator have been criticized for glamorizing Sorokin\u2019s crimes and treating her as a \u201cfeminist icon,\u201d blaming her crimes and theft on a capitalist society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShonda seems to think that deep down the deranged Sorokin wasn\u2019t a fabulist who lied with abandon and cruelly used everyone she met at all. No! She was a modern-day Gloria Steinem who was held back by our inhospitable world of horrible men,\u201d a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/18\/inventing-anna-treats-criminal-anna-delvey-like-a-feminist-icon\/\"><span>reviewer<\/span><\/a><span> from the New York Post write. \u201cA kind of secret shopper whose fibs shined a light on the real injustices \u2014 capitalism and the patriarchy. Deutschland\u2019s own Joan of Arc.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cInventing Anna\u201d is currently streaming on Netflix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. Join us in this mission and stream Shut In today by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>Daily Wire member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Netflix sensation comes courtesy of Shonda Rhimes. 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