Real-Life 'Anna Delvey' Gives Verdict On Julia Garner's Accent

The nine-episode Netflix mini-series was released on Friday (11 February) and was created by Shonda Rhimes (Grey’s Anatomy, Bridgerton and Scandal).

It features 28-year-old Garner as Anna Delvey (whose real name is Anna Sorokin) who convinced New York's social elite that she was one of them, managing in turn to con them for their riches.

Now the IRL Anna Sorokin has explained what she thinks specifically about Garner's accent.

The accent might be a difficult one because Sorokin grew up in Russia until the age of seven. She then moved to Germany for a decade, before spending time in different cities prior to getting to New York in 2013.

"And then she probably learned English in the British way because she's European [and] they don't learn American English."

When Sorokin arrived in NY, she told people she had a €60 million (£44.3m) trust fund overseas, while convincing them to pay large amounts of money for trips they had taken together. 

In 2019 she was convicted of multiple counts of attempted grand larceny, theft of services and larceny in the second degree. 

She was released from prison in February last year – although was later taken back into custody after overstaying her visa and is currently incarcerated in New York's Orange County Jail.

Records reviewed by the outlet show she used $199,000 (£147,000) of the money to pay restitution to the banks, along with another $24,000 (£18,000) to settle state fines. 

Inventing Anna is available to watch on Netflix now.