The character of Alan Reed (left, played by Anthony Edwards) and the real-life inspiration Andrew Lance, a lawyer who was hired by Soho Grifter Anna Delvey.
Sorokin, a German native who was convicted of scamming $200,000 from banks and businesses and served four years in prison, hired Queens lawyer Audrey A. Thomas in 2020 to represent her in her immigration case and appeal her criminal conviction.
Inventing Anna hinted that Todd and his onscreen wife, Mags, may have split due to the drama surrounding Delvey's trial, but real life had a happier ending than Hollywood this time around. According to his official bio, Spodek is still married and lives with his wife, Victoria, and their son in Brooklyn.
Sorokin fired Thomas in April 2022 for “lack of progress in her criminal and immigration cases due to Thomas' lax work habits,” according to the New York Post.
Today, the real Todd and Victoria Spodek have two children and reside in Brooklyn, New York City.
Sorokin — who claimed to have a 60 million euro fortune — was released in February 2021 and then surrendered to ICE in March 2021 for allegedly overstaying her visa in addition to having a felony conviction on her record.
Delvey paid her lawyer, Todd Spodek, with money she got from Netflix, and she paid restitution to her victims using Netflix money.
Todd Spodek's wife, Margarert, is played by actress Caitlin FitzGerald. Caitlin FitzGerald's Margaret is also lawyer, one who works at her father's firm. She grew up wealthy, while Todd grew up in a working-class family, working gigs to help his mother out with rent.
The character of Alan Reed is based on a real person.
The real Alan Reed is a man named Andrew Lance. Andrew is a partner at a firm called Gibson Dunn, and he connected Sorokin with a bunch of financial institutions including City National Bank and Fortress Investment Group, according to New York Magazine.
Anna Delvey is a Model and interior designer who has a net worth of $75 Million in 2023. Anna Delvey is a German woman. She started her career as a Model getting quite decent success and popularity. Being successful in modeling, she earned a healthy amount of wealth as well.
As of June 2023, she remains currently under house arrest in her East Village apartment. In January, Anna threw a "Club House Arrest" party, asking attendees to sign NDAs and donate to Access Justice Brooklyn, an organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal service.
She made a lot by selling her story.
According to Insider, Anna made $320,000 from Netflix for the rights to turn her life story into a TV series.
Some of Anna's Escapades Were Made Up or Exaggerated
She did help herself to a private jet without paying for it, she stayed at multiple hotels without settling her bills, and she allegedly left Williams hanging for over $60k in Morocco (though she was found not guilty of that charge).
Anna Delvey is portrayed by Julia Garner in 'Inventing Anna'. As for why she's still firm friends with Anna to this day (she even publicly wished her a Happy Birthday on Instagram last month), Neff's answer is simple: "Anna is my friend and always will be.
Anna Delvey really did have a defense lawyer named Todd Spodek, who would go on to represent her during her trial in 2019. Spodek is an NYC criminal attorney with his own criminal defense firm, The Spodek Law Group. He has 15 years of experience and also practices family and matrimonial law, alongside criminal.
She was arrested in 2017 in the United States and continues to remain in custody today. Inventing Anna stars Julia Garner as Sorokin but she is only a fantastic figure of myth. The real spotlight is on the journalist chasing her story. Anna Chlumsky plays the character of Vivian Kent, created after Pressler.
Unfortunately, Rachel ended up paying everything after Anna made up a story about her credit card not working. So, Rachel ended up getting conned out of $62,000—a sum that was more than her annual salary at the time—and wasn't able to pay her bills or rent because of all the debt she racked up, per the New York Post.
What happened to the debt? Anna never paid me back. Two years after Marrakech, following the trial and Anna's conviction, American Express protected me from charges made at La Mamounia. I covered the remaining balance directly.
Since leaving Vanity Fair, Williams works as a writer and photographer.
Yes, Anna Delvey Had a Stylist For Her Trial - Because of Course She Did. "Fashion show! Fashion show! Fashion show at lunch!" is my exact reaction to learning that Anna Delvey - otherwise known as the "Soho Grifter" or by her real name, Anna Sorokin - pretty much put on a fashion show for the jury at her trial.
She hired stylist Anastacia Walker to help her with the "courtroom look" with her trial taking place at the New York State Supreme Court. Sorokin was seen on one of the days wearing a choker necklace and a black dress which is from Miu Miu, according to the New York Post.
Anna's mother was killed by an elk, which impaled her with its antlers after she saved Anna from the beast, as she slowly bled out, Anna's mother hummed Anna's favourite lullaby.
Posing as a wealthy socialite, Delvey scammed bankers and defrauded New York's elite. She claimed she was a German heiress, when in reality, her mom owned a small convenience store and her dad worked as a truck driver before he opened his own heating-and-cooling business.
Inventing Anna explores Sorokin's rise and fall through the perspective of Jessica Pressler, the journalist who penned an explosive exposé on Sorokin that went viral in 2018. As every episode reiterates, “This whole story is completely true.
Pressler confirms that she did in fact go to Germany for the benefit of her article, however, she told Vulture that she 'definitely did not try to break into anyone's home' and that, 'there was a lot more laughing' during her real life trip to the country.