Anna Delvey is profiting from home arrest. The convicted con artist, whose exploits had been immortalized in a New York Journal exposé and subsequent Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna, is prepping a TV sequence of her personal set in her Manhattan condominium.
The unscripted challenge finds Delvey (whose actual title is Anna Sorokin) revisiting her socialite roots by taping a sequence of dinner events at her house. (She was launched from ICE custody this previous October for overstaying her visa, having already accomplished her 2019 felony sentence for tried grand larceny.) Tentatively titled Delvey’s Dinner Membership, the sequence intends to see her play host to a revolving group of actors, musicians, founders, socialites, journalists and, per the Wednesday press launch, “different esteemed friends.” The challenge is being produced by Butternut, the lifestyle-focused enterprise from Brent Mongomery’s Wheelhouse and former Meals Community president Courtney White.
“There’s nothing just like the expertise of bringing collectively a curated group of mates to share life tales and luxuriate in an awesome culinary expertise,” Delvey mentioned in a press release. “I’m grateful for the chance to work with Wheelhouse and Butternut to carry my imaginative and prescient to a wider viewers and share a glimpse of the actual Anna Delvey.”
The true Delvey, after all, has been the supply of loads of popular culture hypothesis. After posing as a rich heiress to realize entry to the high-rollers of New York’s social scene from 2013 to 2017, Delvey was discovered responsible of theft by a New York state court docket and accused of making an attempt to cheat banks and lodges out of a whole lot of 1000’s of {dollars}. Her exploits — weird accent and all — had been dramatized within the Shonda Rhimes-penned Inventing Anna.
Delvey won’t be cooking, as a substitute using a non-public chef for every catered meal. Meals, after all, just isn’t the principle draw right here. The present may also characteristic footage from Delvey’s days spent alone throughout her home arrest, and friends will likely be inspired to broach the 32-year-old ex-con’s experiences whereas incarcerated and her ongoing picture rehab. Phrases of Delvey’s house confinement require an ankle monitor and stop her from utilizing social media, however filming a TV sequence is outwardly honest sport.
“It’s typically mentioned the easiest way to get to know somebody is to share a meal with them,” mentioned White, CEO of Butternut. “We’re all determined to know who Anna actually is. Delvey’s Dinner Membership will reveal the precise lady behind the whole lot we’ve learn and watched about Anna. She is breaking her story in her personal phrases and we consider she’s going to defy viewers’ expectations.”
There may be at present no platform hooked up to the challenge, with producers mentioned to be courting all unscripted patrons — a minimum of those that aren’t anxious about flirting with slightly scandal. In any case, whoever buys Delvey’s sequence will likely be bankrolling its controversial star. Hollywood’s abdomen for that has up to now confirmed to be fairly sturdy. Netflix shelled out a reported $320,000 to Delvey to safe her title in Inventing Anna. However the bulk of that payday went to restitution, taxes and authorized charges, and East Village leases don’t pay for themselves.
