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NARRATOR: By the time
Anna Delvey made New York
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her full-time home,
she had mastered the art
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of creating the
illusion of money.
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PALMER: She gets small
amounts of loans from banks.
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She has a little bit of cash,
and then she can make that
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look like a lot.
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- Anna deposited
a number of checks
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into banks, and then
took advantage of the float.
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Deposit a check for $5,000,
and the bank will say,
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"Okay, I'm gonna give
you $1,000 today."
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The banks were not sophisticated
enough to figure it out.
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NARRATOR: But check fraud
was just the beginning.
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Anna had her
sights set higher.
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- She stays at the Parker
Meridian, she stays at
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the Mercer; 400,
500, $600 a night.
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SPODEK:
11 Howard, $500 a night.
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- You can put
everything on credit.
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She learned how to
work the hotel system
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If you could dodge
the bill one time,
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you might be able
to dodge everything.
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- She ultimately spent
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approximately $40,000 living it up.
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NARRATOR:
Despite the facade,
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there was one thing
Anna truly believed in:
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the Anna Delvey
Foundation,
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an upscale arts club
that would bring in
millions.
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Her first step was
creating a glossy promotional
deck
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to attract
investors.
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- She lived and breathed
this foundation.
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[upbeat music plays]
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SPODEK:
Anna had an idea
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for a foundation
based around
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a world-class
art collection.
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PALMER: A high-end
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arts club with
rotating exhibits.
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SPODEK: It'd have a
restaurant, it'd have a bar.
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It'd have other
cultural events,
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similar to the Solo House,
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but a more
art-centric place.
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SHAMSIAN: She hired a
graphic designer, he sends
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invoices, she promises
payment's coming.
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- And, of course,
that Anna was not able to pay.
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For her
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business plan to
actually work,
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she not only needed
the right people,
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but they needed to be
invested in her and her vision.
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NARRATOR:
After just six months,
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Anna had launched herself to
the top of New York's
network
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of elite entrepreneurs,
convincing them each
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to play a role in
her foundation.
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- Everything Anna did,
she blazed with confidence.
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100%, all the time.
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- She gets connected with
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André Balazs, the
hotelier of The Mercer in New
York.
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SPOKEK: She was
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meeting with
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Richie Notar,
from Nobu.
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Gabriel Calatrava.
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His family did the
oculus at World Trade
Center.
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PALMER: She has
enough interactions
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that when she goes to
Calatrava and says,
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"I have been
speaking with André,"
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he goes, "Oh, well,
then all right."
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You know, "This
is legitimate."
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NARRATOR: Anna had
assembled an elite army
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to build her foundation.
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In her mind, Calatrava
would design the facility,
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Balazs would
build it and Notar
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would create a
world-class restaurant.
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Now all she needed
was the money.
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♪ Check 'em,
you can take it to the bank... ♪
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♪
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PALMER:
July 4, 2016,
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she meets a man who
works for Citibank.
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She talks up this wonderful plan
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of the Anna Delvey
Foundation, and he is
hooked.
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Immediately, she is
trying to get a loan.
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- She was trying
to get $25 million of loans.
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- She creates fake
bank statements.
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NARRATOR:
Anna is hooked up
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with a Citibank
business account.
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From there, she goes
to City National Bank
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for the big bucks.
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- City National Bank had
reservations about loaning her
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$20 to 25 million.
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Once City National
Bank decided
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they were not gonna
be able to fund the loan,
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she approached Fortress Bank.
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She had false
trust documents,
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tax documents,
bank records.
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Fortress was smart enough
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to say, "We need some
due diligence money.
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"We need some money
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to do our investigation of you,
your finances,"
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so Anna had reached
out to the banker
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from City National
Bank and said,
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"Listen, I'm jammed up, I'm
trying to get this loan,
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"perhaps you could help me,
I just need $100,000
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to cover this cost,"
and City National Bank,
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they extended her $100,000
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line of credit, essentially,
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based on false documents.
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They just gave it to her.
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- Their background
check comes back.
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- Fortress said,
"You know what? This may not be
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the right loan product for us,"
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and they declined
to fund the loan.
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- Anna Delvey built
her persona off of
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the high-flying names
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that she used constantly.
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But the people that
she was closest to,
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they were smaller people.
They were people like
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Rachel Williams, who
she had met in 2016.
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HAWK:
Rachel was a producer
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with Vanity
Fair magazine.
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She worked with some
high-profile photographers.
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- They started
to spend a lot of time together.
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Rachel would come over
to 11 Howard, would eat with her
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at Le Coucou, and a meal
could easily be five,
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six hundred dollars,
and they were drinking
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a lot of wine and
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would spend money all over
the place. And they both
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lived this, uh,
fabulous New York life.
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NARRATOR: For Rachel,
Anna offered a friendship
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and a lifestyle she
never experienced.
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And in exchange, Anna
finally had a real friend.
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- Anna has this idea.
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- She ropes Rachel
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and a videographer into going
on a trip to Marrakesh.
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NARRATOR: Their trip
would be unforgettable,
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but for all the
wrong reasons.
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