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In that moment the show seems to be drawing a parallel between SorokinвЂ™s grifting and the revolutionary work Sherman produced in that period, which attempted to flip the male gaze while also providing a larger commentary on gender. Sorokin convinces a buyer who is considering another piece that the only thing вЂњworth a damnвЂќ is the Sherman work when the buyer tries to discount her opinion, Sorokin states, вЂњThis isnвЂ™t dress up.

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There is a scene devoted to Cindy Sherman's groundbreaking Untitled Film Stills series (1977-80) as it is being sold at an auction. While SorokinвЂ™s grifting did take place in many wealthy circles, the art world isnвЂ™t as prominently featured as you might expect. Instead, Sorokin becomes a stand-in for the pervasive white privilege and entitlement for which the art world is known. Julia Garner as Anna Sorokin and Anna Chlumsky as Vivian Kent in Inventing Anna Photo by Nicole Rivelli, В© Netflix The real-life fraud that unfolded at the highest levels of the art world is hardly a part of the series. Only one later episode is dedicated to SorokinвЂ™s backstory. Inventing Anna posits Kent and Sorokin as foils for one another, but too much effort is spent on setting up the journalistвЂ™s backstory and motivations rather than fleshing out Sorokin and showing how she was able to swindle so many people for so many years.

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(She also wrote an article that became the basis of the 2019 movie Hustlers, based on a ring of sex workers who robbed their wealthy clients.)

Pressler consulted on the show, so the behind-the-scenes portrayals of the reporting process do have a realistic tenor.

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This part of the narrative is based in some truth, and borrows from the reporting of Jessica Pressler, who covered SorokinвЂ™s trial in 2019 for New York and profiled her, helping to build a cult following and widespread fascination that helped cement her celebrity outlaw status. As the show unfolds, it becomes apparent that Inventing Anna isnвЂ™t just about Sorokin, but that her and KentвЂ™s stories are seemingly more intertwined than we realise. Inventing Anna cuts between the events that led up to Sorokin (Julia Garner) being caught and scenes focused on journalist Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky), who is working at a fictional version of New York magazine-one of the publications whose coverage helped put Sorokin on the map-and scheming to convince her editor to let her cover the trial. Her carefully crafted narrative began to come undone when she convinced art collector Michael Xufu Huang to pay her way to the 2015 Venice Biennale, and when she promised to take friends on an all-expenses-paid trip to Morocco (which one of them ultimately paid for). She was prone to racking up huge bills at fancy hotels where she often lived for weeks or months at a time, hosting lavish nights out bankrolled with faulty financial information and making countless promises to pay people back. Over the span of five years, Sorokin grifted numerous people by claiming to be a German heiress with an inheritance of upwards of $60m. Julia Garner as Anna Sorokin in Inventing Anna Photo by Nicole Rivelli, В© Netflix And, in typical Rhimes fashion, Inventing Anna plays up the drama while eliding key details along the way. One of the showвЂ™s biggest missteps is its failure to unpack the white privilege that Delvey no doubt benefited from as she duped and deceived her way through the art world. The fictionalised account of Delvey's cons, told over nine episodes in the Shonda Rhimes-produced series, offers an exaggerated version of events while also trying to paint the storyвЂ™s anti-hero as some kind of feminist martyr. That headline-grabbing saga is now the subject of a Netflix miniseries, Inventing Anna, which was released earlier this month. But few scandals have caught the mainstream's attention quite like that of Anna Sorokin, who under the alias Anna Delvey managed to infiltrate the art worldвЂ™s upper echelons and con many influential figures between 20.

From the parade of forgeries that came to light in the aftermath of the Knoedler galleryвЂ™s collapse, to gallerist Mary Boone going to prison for tax fraud in 2018 and, more recently, Inigo Philbrook swindling buyers out of more than $20m before going on the lam and finally being apprehended on a remote Pacific island, there have been many cases of individuals taking advantage of the art worldвЂ™s opaque rules and codes. The art world has long been vulnerable to deception, and the last decade has been filled with instances of fraud and scandal.