Anna Delvey is competing on Dancing with the Stars.

It’s a perfect sentence. Crafted in a lab to make people giddy and furious in equal amounts. It’s HBO’s Succession—a tragedy with just enough comedy to make the whole thing palatable. It’s “For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn,” except the baby shoes are an ankle monitor and the only thing for sale is dignity.

Let’s go back. If you recently awakened from a coma and don’t know who Anna Delvey is, I got you. (And also, oh my god I am so excited to tell you about how everyone on TikTok is eating cucumbers now.)

Anna Delvey was born Anna Sorokin in a town near Moscow, then in the Soviet Union, in 1991. In 2019, she was convicted in New York of second-degree grand larceny, theft of services and first-degree attempted grand larceny for stealing money—lots of money—by pretending to be a German heiress. Perhaps most famously, she conned a Vanity Fair employee out of $62,000 by convincing her to pay for a luxurious stay in a private villa in Morocco. Yes it did have a full-time butler, thank........

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