First Dancing With The Stars, now internet icon and comedian Ziwe Fumudoh: Anna Delvey is apparently on a press tour.
The 33-year-old Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, appeared in an extended interview with Ziwe, published to YouTube on Tuesday, to talk about her many scams.
Delvey was convicted of larceny, grand theft, and financial crimes in 2019, and sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison, then released in 2022. In early 2022, she went about monetizing her infamy, hosting an art show while still in detention and adapting her life and cons into the Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna by Shonda Rhimes. By December 2022, Delvey had sold $340,000 worth of paintings and drawings. Since her release, Delvey has been held on house arrest, though that hasn’t stopped her from hosting lavish dinner parties at her East Village apartment, starting a podcast, and last September hosting a fashion show on her rooftop.
Earlier this month, Delvey walked the runway during fashion week for Shao New York.
In many ways, Delvey is the ideal interview subject for Ziwe, who first came to fame with deadpan and often outrageous interviews with clueless quasi-celebrities like influencer Caroline Calloway and cookbook author Alison Roman. Ziwe eventually parlayed her YouTube show and a Covid-era Instagram Live series into a variety show on Showtime, which ran for two seasons.
In one of her classic loaded questions, Ziwe asked Delvey who was a greater hero to her: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, or Bernie Madoff. Perhaps surprising no one, Delvey said the Holmes was most relatable. Why?
“Because she is a white female who had to go through the criminal justice system,” she said.
As half the joy of a Ziwe interview is not knowing what strange or provacative question she’ll ask next, I’ll it there, and you can watch the interview below:
