The Russian-born con artist scammed the New York City elite and other wannabe socialites into funding her lifestyle by posing as a wealthy foreign heiress
Anna Delvey is going from prison to the dance floor.
The con artist is part of the star-studded cast hitting the dance floor as part of the 33rd season of Dancing with the Stars, which airs Tuesday, September 17 on ABC.
The Russia native is paired up with Ezra Sosa, and will be competing against fellow stars such as Olympians Stephen Nedoroscik and Ilona Maher, Bachelor Nation alums Joey Graziadei and Jenn Tran, Julia Roberts‘ brother Eric Roberts, Danny Amendola, Brooks Nader and Tori Spelling, among others.
Her made up life of luxury, a scam she ran from around 2013 to 2017, infamously unraveled after the NYPD arrested her with the help of her former friend Rachel DeLoache Williams, who in 2018 wrote a lengthy, viral article for Vanity Fair titled She Paid for Everything: How a Fake Heiress Made My $62,000 Disappear, and she later gained more notoriety after the Jessica Pressler The Cut article How an Aspiring ‘It’ Girl Tricked New York’s Party People — and Its Banks, the foundation for the 2022 Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna, was published the same year.