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I think resilience is trying to make the best out of a bad situation and not giving up. It’s about reinvention, persistence and your ability to navigate adversity. I think it’s also the ability to adapt to circumstances outside of your control, defiance, and shaping your own narrative.

Anna Delvey in speaking to her friend, former housemate and OutLaw Agency co-founder, Kelly Cutrone, in an interview for UK-based art and culture magazine, Bricks Magazine. Read the full interview.

Due to the high increase in email inquiries that I receive that are intended for Anna Delvey herself, I find it necessary to put out yet another scam advisory.

This site is not affiliated with Anna Delvey. The gmail, annadelveyfoundation@gmail.com, was set up in association with this content website to field requests and preserve the privacy of the contributors. This website, originally created as a media studies exercise, is a library of news content and resources on Anna Delvey and other infamous celebrities with alleged cons and “white collar” theft claims. This website is an appreciation of Anna Delvey and it is written for educational and entertainment purposes.

This website does not have any social media channels, besides Tumblr. If you find this website or the gmail above linked through any other social media account, please be advised before communicating directly on that channel and refer back to this notice. I have seen both Facebook and Instagram accounts that link this website and they are not me, and they may not be Anna either.

There are some very sweet people who email the above address and share an admiration for Anna. This notice is for you. I hope that this notice can protect you from getting catphished or scammed. I will never, ever impersonate Anna.

There are also some people (often men) who send creepy and inappropriate emails intended for Anna. To that end, I’m OK with shielding those creeps from Anna. Creeps must be advised that it is never, ever OK to email anyone online with requests for their photos, measurements, or intent to marry them. I advise you to kindly f*ck off.

AFAIK, the real Anna Delvey writes under “at theannadelvey” on Instagram. This site is not affiliated with her Instagram. Anna has not responded to my requests for comment.

All that said, I do love getting fan mail for this website that I built for Anna! Thank you for reading.

xo,

Julia

Editor-in-Chief & Scam Librarian

Want to follow the money? Follow the cheese..

Photo: Tegan and Sara. Credit: Disney

Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara is a documentary by Erin Lee Carr where the artists Tegan and Sara shared how they learned that their management had fallen victim of a cyber attack in 2011, around the time of the release of their album, The Con. As a result of the cyber attack, Tegan became the victim of identity theft and the attacker exploited her fans (and friends!) for years through a web of catfishing accounts. I think it’s heartbreaking to learn about a small community predominantly women and/or queer and often from local DIY indie spaces and how they and the artists were exploited by the attacker. I highly recommend it, but make sure you are in a safe place when you watch it and maybe watch a silly comedy and drink chocolate milk right after it to come back to earth.

Friendly reminder: This website, Annadelveyfoundation.org is an online library that originally started as a fan website for Anna Delvey. As it has always stated in the summary online, I am not Anna nor am I impersonating Anna. I clearly state this in the summary above and I write in the third person when I write about Anna Delvey. There are numerous social media accounts online that are impersonating Anna, and it is in your best interest to do your due diligence online.

Anna Delvey

Anna writes from @ theannadelvey on Instagram to over 1 million followers. She is out of prison, and she is on house arrest in an apartment in Alphabet City. She’s contributed to interviews for multiple publications including CNN, Vanity Fair, Conde Nast, and the Hulu documentary series The Age of Influence from… house arrest. She even landed a guest role on Dancing with the Stars… with her house arrest anklet.

Anna Delvey turned 30 this year. It looks like she is having a lot of fun - and all the while staying out of trouble! In interviews, she doesn’t sound like she aspires to con anymore. Honestly, it sounds like she just wants to have fun and live life to the fullest. She’s very popular now, and I don’t blame her. Your thirties are even more fun than your twenties.

I have reached out to Anna for comment on this blog and she didn’t respond.

Billy McFarland

Billy is also out of prison. He advertises tickets to Fyre Festival 2 to more than 34K followers (the least amount of the three people on this list) from @ pyrtbilly on Instagram. Does he still intend to con or is he a reformed man? Jury’s out.

Kari Ferrelll

Kari, who rose to prominence in Brooklyn as the “hipster grifter” and conning men on dates, avoided the limelight since her grifting days. She is no longer is interested in conning - but she still sounds really cool and honestly like someone who I would like to be friends with. Kari is releasing a memoir in January 2025: You’ll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist. Preorder. Preorder here! I received an advanced copy courtesy of NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press, and I am enjoying it so far. It’s wild.

More to come.

Full story on Eater New York.

New York Times reports “Billy McFarland Is Out of Jail and Ready for His Next Move” in an exclusive interview with McFarland, who was convicted of selling fraudulent festival tickets at $12,000 a pop.

In case you’re out of your free 10 New York Times articles for the month, here are the highlights.

“Is this technically Dumbo?”

Brooklyn detention center

Kind of nice

Organizing the Fyre Festival

Coachella-for-the-Bahamas affair

Elizabeth Holmes of party promoters

Four years in prison

Posing for a New York Times photographer

Help of a publicist

Post-prison lean

Little money in the bank

Entire wardrobe is from 2016

“There’s a reason there’s only one photograph of that”

Uber to his small second-floor apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood

“Was this street terrible years ago?”

Paid by “family and friends”

Membership at Blink Fitness

Debit card

Airbnb-neutral

Appealed for compassionate release

“Dumpster Fyre”

Gray couch from Wayfair

Mac desktop computer with a Westinghouse screen

Earnings will be garnished

As part of his plea, Mr. McFarland is barred for life from serving as a director of a public company. His earnings will be garnished until he pays back the full amount he owes his victims, more than $25 million.

A lot of work ahead of him

Egg sandwich and a coffee

“Not particularly interested in crypto”

“Immaturity” and hubris

“I didn’t know what I didn’t know,” he said.

Blamed the tech world

Post-house-arrest party

Post-party lobster roll

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McFarland genuinely does sound remorseful and I don’t think anyone deserves to live in solitary confinement for any amount of time. Hope he’s able to find some peace and gratitude. Lately I’ve been finding peace in food videos dubbed with electronica music. Specifically, Dance Cheese found on Instagram Reels like this bowl of cheese that goes All Around the World, this Justin Bieber cheesecake, this lit quesadilla, or this shoegaze cheese for more introspective moods. There are also lots of dance-y lobster roll videos too - and even a Missy Elliott lobster mac n cheese.

If Bill McFarland ends up creating a new tech startup, let’s ask for post-party lobster rolls. We don’t need a sad cheese sandwich anymore.

From left Katie Lowes, Laverne Cox, Julia Garner, and Alexis Floyd as Rachel, Kacy, Anna, and Neff in Inventing Anna (Netflix). They pose for a selfie in a sauna with Laverne Cox, centered, holding the camera.

A week or so ago, “Anna Delvey” via her instagram theannadelvey stirred up some controversy when she shared her thoughts about Rachel Williams on Insta Stories. (Archived here from a nice user on Reddit). It’s an Insta story, the medium disappears after 24 hours, and you know we all use the gram for self-expression and to vent. Famous con artists probably do too, right? I reached out to the account for comment and no one responded.

There’s numerous instagram accounts claiming to be Anna Delvey, some even have the same profile default as the real one. I am not one of them. I’m not here to pretend to be anyone else. I’m literally the opposite of Anna Delvey. (I’m trashier). I just like writing about scams. But hey, if one of the fan accounts wants to link to annadelveyfoundation.org and give me extra traffic, that’s cool!

Screenshot of a fake Anna Delvey account that’s both posing as Anna and my blog at the same time, which is hilarious. Not the real story here. Also, what’s “dinning”?

Thank you for the link share, anonymous fan. I appreciate the attention. It’s a funny thing to think that there’s an account that’s pretending to be both Anna and me at the same time? I reached out to that account for comment, and no one responded. She “hearted” my response. It looks like the account has since been deleted.

It’s all gossip and heresy anyways.

Going back to the Anna v Rachel cult debate, I think we need to take a lesson from Kacy Duke, the Celebrity Trainer from the Anna Delvey story. Kacy recently did an exclusive interview with Entertainment Tonight (15 Feb 2022). If there’s one interview to watch, this is it.

When asked who’s side are you on, Kacy responds:

In Switzerland! I’m standing neutral. I’m like you guys need to get it together and when you’re at a place when you’re living your life, then maybe we can talk. I don’t hate either one of them. I don’t necessarily need to hang with either of them. I think I’m loving life.

That’s how it’s done.

Follow me @ mintjulips on Insta. On this upcoming Monday at 8pm, I’m going to show all the fan mail that I’ve received for the blog and fan mail for Anna to the blog’s email account annadelveyfoundation@gmail.com only on Instagram. I’ve received an increase of interesting Anna Delvey fan mail since the fake account imposter linked to this blog. Feel free to send more; just be aware I’m not the real Anna.

xoxo

Julia

Insta: mintjulips