Anna Delvey Reveals: Life Since Prison, Inventing Anna, and the Celebrity She Wants to Play

Anna Delvey's career could be more innovative. Working artist.

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The fake queen is already on to her next act almost 10 months after Netflix's Inventing Anna captivated audiences with her story of invading

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New York's elite and allegedly trying to con them into offering her hundreds of thousands of dollars to support her lavish lifestyle.

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"Prowling in Prada," by Anna Sorokin, has sold for $15,000 in Miami's art scene via Zoom.

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"The House (arrest) Party," a Dec. 3 Miami Art Week event featuring several of her works, will help her continue this success.

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Anna told E! News Francesca Amiker that she's creating a "merch line" and a TV show.

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She has plenty of rich material. In 2018, Jessica Pressler's New York magazine piece "Maybe She Had So Much Cash She Just Lost Track of It" described Anna's rise in New York society, fraud, and arrest.

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Anna was found guilty of tried grand theft, second-degree robbery, and service theft in April 2019. Two other charges were acquitted.

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The Russian-born, German-raised New Yorker was paroled in February 2021 but arrested by Customs and Immigration Enforcement in March for illegally entering her visa.

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Anna was released on house arrest and an ankle monitor in October 2022, so she'll attend her Miami event via Zoom.

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Anna said, "It feels great to have support from the collectors and art community." "I've traveled well.

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I started making paintings when I debuted my paintings earlier this year. This might be the next chapter." In her interview with E! News, she created a vivid picture.

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