According to BBC News, which obtained a copy of the Inventing Anna contract through a Freedom of Information Act request, Netflix paid Anna an initial fee of $30,000 pre-trial. This money “went directly to her lawyer, Todd Spodek, to cover a portion of his fees,” the NY Post reported, citing court filings.
Anna Delvey's former lawyer dramatically collapsed in court Friday as the fake German heiress continues to sue for court records to aid her deportation battle.
Fake heiress Anna Delvey's former lawyer Audrey Thomas disbarred.
The attorney has her own personal ventures, including a forthcoming book titled, "FAT NUH MEK IT: The JAMAICAN AMERICAN'S GUIDE TO SELF-ACTUALIZATION," according to a post on her Twitter page. Whoops! We couldn't access this Tweet.
Sorokin fired Thomas in April 2022 for “lack of progress in her criminal and immigration cases due to Thomas' lax work habits,” according to the New York Post.
Today, the real Todd and Victoria Spodek have two children and reside in Brooklyn, New York City.
Todd Spodek has his own law firm in New York City called Spodek Law Group. In addition to practicing criminal law, Spodek also practices matrimonial and family law.
Delvey paid her lawyer, Todd Spodek, with money she got from Netflix, and she paid restitution to her victims using Netflix money.
Conroy ruled Sorokin “has demonstrated interest in pursuing legitimate employment” in the U.S., “pursuits that will face heavy public scrutiny,” and that her notoriety makes her “risk of flight sufficiently mitigated.” Sorokin is appealing both her deportation and her criminal conviction.
Anna Delvey really did have a defense lawyer named Todd Spodek, who would go on to represent her during her trial in 2019. Spodek is an NYC criminal attorney with his own criminal defense firm, The Spodek Law Group. He has 15 years of experience and also practices family and matrimonial law, alongside criminal.
Anna Delvey is a Model and interior designer who has a net worth of $75 Million in 2023. Anna Delvey is a German woman. She started her career as a Model getting quite decent success and popularity. Being successful in modeling, she earned a healthy amount of wealth as well.
However, it is revealed at the end of the series that the real life Todd Spodek did suffer a health scare and finally took a vacation with his family.
When 11:30 came around, Delvey still refused to arrive in court. Spodek said she was sick, and told him she threw up. "She seemed to be tired or upset because of the nature of her clothing," Kiesel said.
The character of Alan Reed is based on a real person.
The real Alan Reed is a man named Andrew Lance. Andrew is a partner at a firm called Gibson Dunn, and he connected Sorokin with a bunch of financial institutions including City National Bank and Fortress Investment Group, according to New York Magazine.
As of June 2023, she remains currently under house arrest in her East Village apartment. In January, Anna threw a "Club House Arrest" party, asking attendees to sign NDAs and donate to Access Justice Brooklyn, an organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal service.
She made a lot by selling her story.
According to Insider, Anna made $320,000 from Netflix for the rights to turn her life story into a TV series.
Anna supposedly fought so hard against getting onboard the flight, that in the end she was not allowed on board,' Hoffmann said. 'She didn't want to be deported to Germany, because she wanted to stay in the USA – and for this, she wanted to be given a second chance. I think everyone deserves a second chance in life.
Unfortunately, Rachel ended up paying everything after Anna made up a story about her credit card not working. So, Rachel ended up getting conned out of $62,000—a sum that was more than her annual salary at the time—and wasn't able to pay her bills or rent because of all the debt she racked up, per the New York Post.
On top of the fees Anna used the Netflix money to pay for, she also agreed to pay $70,000 in restitution she still owed to Citibank, one of the many financial institutions she stole from, and according to the Wall Street Journal, Anna had already paid the $100,000 she owed to City National Bank.
Inventing Anna is adapted from Jessica Pressler's New York magazine feature, which was published after Williams's initial piece. Netflix reportedly paid Sorokin $320,000 for her life rights, as Williams had already optioned her own story to Lena Dunham at HBO.
Since October 2022, Sorokin has lived in a fifth-floor walk-up East Village apartment building in N.Y.C., where she is on house arrest. Though she has served her criminal sentence, she is on house arrest as a result of her immigration case, which is still pending.
After serving two years, she was remanded into the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation to Germany. On 5 October 2022, Sorokin was granted a $10,000 bail bond and released from prison.
The show follows Anna Delvey's rise to fame (and criminal status) and gives a deeper look inside how she swindled many, many people out of money. Those people include some of her closest friends, like Rachel DeLoache Williams and Kacy Duke.
Anna Todd grew up in Ohio and started writing the first book in the After series in 2013 when she was just 24 years old and living near Fort Hood, Texas, as an army wife. She wrote the story on her iPhone and posted it to Wattpad, chapter by chapter, and by 2014, the story had been read 1 billion times!