How Anna Delvey Reportedly Conned Fellow Fraudster Billy McFarland

To be trustworthy, we low-key love when scammers get scammed. And that absolutely occurred as soon as upon a time with Anna Delvey, the topic of the brand new Netflix sequence “Inventing Anna,” and Billy McFarland. For those who’ll recall, McFarland was the mastermind behind the ill-fated Fyre Pageant in 2017. The would-be music competition crashed and burned after it was so poorly deliberate, turning into an entire mockery. And Delvey, in fact, is the faux German heiress who swindled quite a few folks in New York’s higher crust out of their cash. So which scammer scammed the opposite scammer? Delvey bought the most effective of McFarland, in fact.

In “Inventing Anna,” Delvey (performed by Julia Garner) makes a remark in passing about McFarland’s upcoming Fyre Pageant, which undoubtedly makes you marvel if the real-life Delvey knew McFarland. It seems the 2 have been acquaintances years in the past.

Based on a Web page Six supply, Delvey reportedly stiffed McFarland out of a number of months’ hire. In 2013, she took up residence in his firm Magnises’ lofts in New York Metropolis, however she conveniently forgot to pay. “Anna knew folks on Billy’s staff,” the supply mentioned. “She simply requested to remain for a number of days . . . then she would not depart.”

McFarland reportedly did not desire a confrontation with Delvey, so he struggled to ask her to go away. “He hinted, the workers hinted,” the supply mentioned. “She had Balenciaga baggage and garments in all places. The corporate wound up shifting right into a townhouse. That is the one manner they bought her out! She had been there for 4 months!”

Ultimately, each grifters ended up in jail. Delvey was sentenced in 2019 for theft and grand larceny, however she was finally launched. Nonetheless, she was shortly arrested once more for overstaying her visa. As of early 2022, she’s nonetheless in jail. McFarland, however, was convicted of wire fraud, mail fraud, falsified paperwork, and extra in 2018 and was sentenced to 6 years in jail, the place he nonetheless is at present.