Who is involved with Netflix’s Inventing Anna?

It wasn’t long after the unbelievable story went viral that the film rights to the New York Magazine story, “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People,” were snapped up by two film producers.

One was legendary producer Shonda Rhimes (of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal fame), who has written the series herself as one of her first projects for Netflix. (The other was Lena Dunham, who will adapt the memoir of Delvey’s friend, Rachel Williams, based on her original Vanity Fair article).

Titled Inventing Anna, the series stars Julia Garner – who we have already seen in Ozark, Dirty John and, more recently, Modern Love – as the Soho scammer.

Anna Chlumsky of Veep fame is also on-board, in the role of a journalist who formed a love-hate relationship with the magnetic con artist as she investigates her nefarious goings-on. And Laverne Cox – aka Sophia in Orange Is the New Black – is set to play a celebrity trainer who lingers on the periphery of Anna’s murky world.

What is the official synopsis of Netflix’s Inventing Anna?

The synopsis reads: “In Inventing Anna, a journalist with a lot to prove investigates the case of Anna Delvey, the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York’s social scene – and stole their money as well. But is Anna New York’s biggest con woman or is she simply the new portrait of the American dream?

“Anna and the reporter form a dark, funny love-hate bond as Anna awaits trial and our reporter fights the clock to answer the biggest question in NYC: who is Anna Delvey?”

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