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Julia Garner as Anna Delvery in Inventing Anna<\/i> (Photo: David Giesbrecht\/Netflix)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bridgerton<\/em><\/a>, Private Practice<\/em>, Scandal<\/em>, How to Get Away with Murder<\/em>, and TV\u2019s longest-running prime-time medical drama Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em> all have one thing in common, and that is the inimitable Shonda Rhimes. The groundbreaking storyteller, prolific producer and founder of her production company and lifestyle brand Shondaland, has taken on a new project that’s bound to be her next sure-fire hit.<\/p>\n

Rhimes’ new true crime series, Inventing Anna<\/em><\/a>, premieres with nine episodes on Friday, February 11 on Netflix<\/a>. The show follows the true (but almost unbelievable) story, inspired by journalist Jessica Pressler\u2019s New York Magazine<\/em> article, \u201cHow Anna Delvey Tricked New York\u2019s Party People<\/a>.” Rhimes told Netflix<\/a> about the first time she read the piece. \u201cI was running on a treadmill when I read the article in New York Magazine<\/em> about Anna Delvey, and I remember literally jumping off of the treadmill and calling my office,\u201d she recalled. \u201cI really felt like I hadn\u2019t felt that excitement of a story that I wanted to tell and knew exactly how I wanted to tell it in a really long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Pressler onboard for the project, the reporter provided a wealth of information on her first-hand breaking story.<\/p>\n

Charting the journey of a journalist (Anna Chlumsky) as she investigates the fraudulent case of Anna Delvey (Julia Garner), the story of the fake German heiress unravels as her con to swindle New York\u2019s social elite out of their money becomes common knowledge.<\/p>\n

Finding empathy for Sorokin despite her villainous actions, Rhimes told Netflix<\/a>, \u201cThere is something about this idea of somebody that age, a young woman building her way through the brawl that we can all relate to. She is a villain\u2019s villain, if you know what I mean. You can\u2019t help but admire her, she\u2019s fascinating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Between 2013 and 2017, Anna Sorokin went by the name of Anna Delvey, scamming her wealthy friends, hotels, banks out of thousands of dollars. \u201cI was fascinated by the fact that people were so eager to believe what she had to say without questioning it and how you make your way in the world,\u201d said Rhimes. \u201cIf you think about the fact that most of us reinvent ourselves when we go to college or you reinvent yourself when you go to high school or out in the business world, that\u2019s what Anna was doing, only she just did it better than almost anybody else I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noting our collective reliance on social media, and the impulse to judge a book by its Instagram profile, Rhimes finds that the state of our culture helped to facilitate such a superficial yet illustrious scam. “We have created a world in which scrolling through Instagram images is the way you\u2019re supposed to take other people in and understand who\u2019s good and who\u2019s bad and who\u2019s powerful and who\u2019s great. 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