Unnamed Commentator 8
Appearances
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
The day I met her, she had one open misdemeanor criminal case. I come to find out that there's a number of criminal investigations and active cases against Anna for unpaid bills. hotels, restaurants, other things of that nature.
20/20
True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Anna was offered a plea bargain of three to nine years to resolve all of the criminal liability. And she ultimately rejected it and said, I'd rather go to trial. I'd rather roll the dice. Let's go.
20/20
True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
So Anna was charged with certain crimes that had evidence that we couldn't dispute. The fake documents were the fake documents. We were stuck with them. There's nothing we could do about it.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
The other way to tell the story is that Anna had every intention of doing things the right way. But she couldn't open certain doors without doing something a little bit gray to open that door. Everyone creates the version of themselves that they want the world to see. Everyone is lying a little bit. Everyone lies when it's convenient to them. Some more than others, but we all do it.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
And Anna did the same thing. She couldn't be 100% honest because no one would listen to her.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Hardworking people, good people, but certainly not rolling dough.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
How are you going to get on the witness stand and say this is the worst thing that ever happened? The woman sold her story across the board. She literally was like, what's up? I got the story. Who wants it?
20/20
True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
She volunteered to give the card and the story. I'm empathetic to how Rachel felt. That's not the issue. The issue is whether Anna committed a crime by doing it.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Her ultimate sentence was four to 12 years in state prison.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Once the victims were paid, Anna would receive the balance.
20/20
True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I said to her, lay low, get off of parole, sort out your immigration affairs, and then you'll have plenty of time to build whatever you want to build. But lo and behold, Anna is not one to heed my advice, and she decided to do what she wanted.
20/20
True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
She was living at these high-end hotels. How she supported that, I have no f***ing idea. She just didn't give a f***. At the end of the day, that's what this is about.
20/20
True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
So her plan was kind of like a members-only club, a very high-end members-only club. arts, fashion, entertainment, music, restaurants, everything in one place. The name of this was the Anna Delvey Foundation, ADF.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Anna went to the most premier investment banks in New York without a dollar to her name. The bankers were seduced by the glitz and glam. She came up and they're stunting. She came in there with the right clothes and they were like, I love it. Let's do it.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
So these two formed a friendship and Anna portrayed herself as having a lot of money and living a very lavish lifestyle and Rachel was into that.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
This is some stunning top of the line, like dripping in gold resort with butlers and private everything. It's a resort that's built for the 1%.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
So the trip is going along. They're living it up. I'm not sure why Anna had issues paying, but for whatever reason, her credit cards were not working.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
So they came and they said, listen, what's going on? Time to pay.