Inventing Anna True Story: What Netflix Changes & Gets Right
Inventing Anna follows the events that led Anna Sorokin to be convicted of multiple counts of larceny while taking some artistic freedoms to tell the story in the best way possible—here’s what the Netflix show changes and what is surprisingly real. Inventing Anna was released by the streaming giant on February 11, 2022 and is the second collaboration between Netflix and Scandal’s mastermind Shonda Rhimes. Each of the limited series’ episodes starts with a witty disclaimer stating, “This whole story is completely true, except for all the parts that are totally made up,” which could be a reference to both the show’s dramatization of the real events and the lies told by Sorokin in real life.
Inventing Anna is based on the 2018 New York Magazine exposé “Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It: How an Aspiring 'It' Girl Tricked New York's Party People — and its Banks” by journalist Jessica Pressler. The Netflix-Shondaland production focuses as much on the investigation by Pressler’s alter-ego in the show, Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky) as it does on socialite Anna Sorokin, known as Anna Delvey (Ozark’s Julia Garner) in New York’s social circles. While Inventing Anna couldn’t have existed without Sorokin selling the rights to her life story to Netflix, making $320,000 in the process, Pressler’s involvement in the show was also practical, as she was among Inventing Anna’s producers.
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Despite bordering ludicrousness at times, many of Inventing Anna’s plot twists and details mirror what truly happened and what was published in the exposé, with some real-life events even sounding weirder than what the show portrays. Still, some of the characters
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