From Anna Delvey to Caroline Calloway: How fraudsters become stars

From Anna Delvey to Caroline Calloway, people who cheat and lie become social media stars. Why is that?

Anna Delvey is back. Or better said: Anna Sorokin, that’s the name of the con artist who posed as a German heiress in New York for years and defrauded friends, banks and hotels out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, namely with her real name. Since Netflix made a series of her scams, Sorokin has been a household name worldwide; The 32-year-old took advantage of this media interest now that she is out of prison after a four-year sentence to stage a fashion show in New York.

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