Just as it’s always 5 o’clock somewhere, it is always scam season in America. And like clockwork, a certain slice of mid-2010s scammers du jour is back. First, there was the Vanity Fair profile of Caroline Calloway, perennial phoenix of millennial internet fascination, ahead of her new memoir, saucily titled Scammer. And now Anna Delvey, the “Soho grifter” turned convicted fraudster turned subject of the hit Netflix series Inventing Anna, has launched her own podcast.
The Anna Delvey Show, which premiered on Tuesday, is Delvey’s latest attempt to parlay her notoriety as a scammer of the rich and powerful – her exploits as a fake heiress who courted investors for her namesake social club was the subject of a viral 2018 New York Magazine story – into a business. Or, perhaps more accurately, a career as a celebrity – the podcast comes on the back of the announcement of her first pop single and news that she was developing a reality TV series based at her East Village apartment, where she is being held under house arrest by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (Ice) for overstaying her visa.
