What is the future for Anna Delvey?

When the stories about Delvey appeared in New York magazine and Vanity Fair, they quickly went viral.

As a result, rights to her story were snapped up by two filmmakers. One was Shonda Rhimes, who purchased New York’s story and will write the series herself as one of her first projects for Netflix. Lena Dunham is working on adapting Williams’ memoir My Friend Anna, based on her original Vanity Fair article, for HBO.

For the rights to her life story, Netflix arranged to pay Delvey $100,000, as well as $7,500 in royalties and $15,000 in consulting fees per episode. Delvey received an initial $30,000 payment, which went towards paying her lawyers. But the remaining fees have been seized by the New York Attorney General’s office to determine whether or not they violate the state law that a criminal cannot make a profit from their crimes, the New York Post reports. In cases like these the Attorney General can rule that the money due to Delvey could go towards those that are owed. They include City National Bank, who extended a $100,000 line of credit to Delvey, as well as hotels in New York with whom Delvey has outstanding bills.

Netflix is moving forward with the television show, regardless of whether or not Delvey will receive payment. Davis, the concierge friend of Delvey’s from her early hotel days, is helping the Netflix team on their production. In a new interview with Paper, Davis said that she is still friends with Delvey.

“She calls me every single day,” Davis told Paper. “I was like, ‘Wow, so I’m your only friend in New York.’ That’s when I realised Anna was protecting me by not telling me what was going on with her, because I would have felt obligated to not be her friend anymore. I’m not upset with her.”

“She’s my friend,” Davis added. “But I don’t know the Anna that everyone else does. So I guess I got a piece of Anna that no-one else really saw.”

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