Unnamed Commentator 2
Appearances
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
This was really high drama, seeing these two women coming face to face together in a courtroom.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
If Anna wasn't living a lie, What was she living? The prosecution has quite the case to make to a jury to try to prove just how fake this would-be heiress actually was.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Remember, Anna was supposed to be opening this arts foundation. She went to banks and told them she had money overseas.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
The banks never gave Anna the loans, but she did get a line of credit, and prosecutors say she used that money and bad checks in order to fund her lavish lifestyle.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
This was really high drama, seeing these two women, former friends, coming face to face together in a courtroom.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Escape or no escape, next thing you know, Anna crosses the ocean, she jumps into New York, becomes Anna Delvey, this larger-than-life persona.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Despite her testimony and how traumatic this experience was for her, on cross-examination, Rachel had to admit that ultimately she didn't pay that hotel bill and she made a lot of money on this story. She wrote a book about it and she has a movie deal as a result.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Despite Rachel's emotional testimony, the jury did not find Anna guilty for the alleged theft, that $62,000 bill at the hotel in Morocco.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
In addition to her prison sentence, Anna's ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution and an additional $24,000 in fees. But interestingly, Anna's not ordered to pay back Rachel's $62,000 credit card bill. Did you have to pay that money?
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I'd love to say the lesson in this story is you can't just lie and get away with it. Anna went to prison. Anna paid some restitution. But I think this story is as old as time. That's part of what draws us to it. We want to believe that justice will be served. We want to believe that it will deter anybody else from coming along. But there's always another Anna waiting in the rafters.
20/20
True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
So the hotel isn't getting any payment, and the bill is getting astronomical.