How Much Did Anna Delvey Get Paid For Netflix’s “Inventing Anna”?

Years after the surprising story of the “SoHo Grifter” made headlines, the story of Anna Delvey is making its solution to Netflix with the upcoming collection “Inventing Anna.” As the actual Delvey — aka Anna Sorokin — continues her authorized case, we could not assist questioning if she bought paid by Netflix for her story.

In keeping with Insider, Sorokin did get a paycheck from Netflix in alternate for the rights to her story — a cool $320,000, no much less. Reportedly, she’s been utilizing that cash to pay restitution to the banks and others she defrauded throughout her spree. Monetary information reviewed by Insider apparently present her paying $199,000 of that Netflix cash towards restitution to banks (together with $70,000 she nonetheless owed to Citibank) and one other $24,000 to settle state fines. She’s additionally taking a look at $75,000 in authorized charges and counting, as her case winds towards its conclusion, in addition to smaller quantities towards different victims.

The complexities of life-story rights — that’s, the rights to painting the lives of actual individuals, particularly individuals who have lived comparatively not too long ago versus centuries in the past — are a very knotty space of leisure legislation. In keeping with “The Hollywood Reporter,” “The one causes of motion a star or public determine has in opposition to the usage of his/her identify, likeness or life story in non-commercial speech is for false mild or libel.” In different phrases, it is exhausting for an individual deemed a public determine (which is one other complete authorized guidelines) to sue, even over an “unauthorized” story, except it is blatantly, intentionally damaging or false. Nevertheless, having the rights to a life story may give a manufacturing firm benefits, comparable to unique entry to data or assets, in addition to a veneer of authenticity within the courtroom of public opinion.

It isn’t simply Netflix and different producers who’re sure by this life-story deal; Sorokin is just too. Because the BBC defined, such a contract limits Sorokin from telling her story elsewhere. She will’t take part in different documentaries, inform her story on a chat present, write a e book, or inform her story in another varieties outdoors the scope of the TV collection for years after its debut. It is only one extra step in a saga the place public consideration and cash have been on the heart of all of it.