That’s when things began to unravel for the fake heiress. Delvey claimed she needed time out of the country to reset her visa. Later in 2017, Delvey invited ex-best Friend Rachel DeLoache Williams (a former Vanity Fair photo editor) on a trip to Marrakech. Using the same technique, Delvey swindled New York institutions like the 11 Howard, The Beekman and The Mercer Hotel of almost $50,000USD worth in theft of services.ĭelvey’s process of forging and depositing fake cheques and taking advantage of the float period to withdraw cash is what funded her lavish lifestyle.ĭelvey first aroused suspicion in 2015, when her then-friend, Chinese art collector Michael Xufu Huang, funded her all-expenses paid trip to the Venice Biennale under the impression that he would be repaid at a later date.
In her quest to create the ADF, Delvey consequently conned Fortress and City National Bank of over $150,000USD by forging fake cheques and bank statements, a method called cheque kiting, in the hopes of obtaining a $2,200,000 loan.īut her corruption didn’t end there. Delvey’s delusions of grandeur culminated with the creation of the Anna Delvey Foundation, a SoHo House-esque private members club and art foundation on the Upper East Side.Īccording to The Cut, Delvey dreamed of a “dynamic visual-arts center, with a rotating array of pop-up shops, exhibitions and installations from blue-chip artists like Urs Fischer, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, and Tracey Emin, two floors of hotel rooms, three restaurants, a juice bar, and a German bakery”.
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