Netflix has paid false heiress Anna Delvey for the rights of her story, even though she is on trial for criminal charges

Netflix acquired the rights of life of the false heiress Anna Delvey, told INSIDER three sources close to the contract. The transaction has not been reported yet.

"She has a contract with Netflix, they bought her right to life," Todd Spodek told the Insident.

A representative of Shondaland, the production company founded by Shonda Rhimes, confirmed the agreement by e-mail. Netflix is ​​collaborating with Shondaland for a series based on the long-running profile of New York magazine Delvey.

This profile, written by journalist Jessica Pressler, highlighted Delvey's impressive ability to project wealth and feed his tickets to the New York social scene by posing as a German heiress with a $ 60 million trust fund.

Read more: The fake heiress Anna Delvey lied about her identity in an attempt to get $ 22 million. His lawyer said the plan was too inept to send him to jail.

With her false identity, she lived a luxury life that would have been funded by a group of people, businesses and financial institutions who bought her story. Manhattan prosecutors have charged him with 10 counts of theft, larceny and attempted robbery or larceny. Delvey's decision to deny a plea agreement set in motion its ongoing trial, which is expected to end next week.

We do not know how much the Netflix transaction is worth. A source familiar with its terms said that if Delvey was found guilty, any payment badociated with the agreement would go to a victim badistance fund.

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It is also unclear whether the deal will affect HBO's competing Delvey project, based on the story of Rachel Williams, former photo editor at Vanity Fair, who had written for the magazine on her unfortunate trip with Delvey. However, this should not be a serious obstacle, as film representations of public figures do not usually require the guarantee of their rights for life.

Read more: Prosecutors claim that the alleged social scam artist Anna Delvey claimed to be an influencer and embarked on a sumptuous trip to Morocco "worthy of a Kardashian"

Delvey's finances remain troubled. Spodek told the jurors that her client did not have "a dollar in her name" when she applied for loans from financial institutions in 2017. Spodek declined to say how he was paid for his work.

Whether the jurors convict Delon or that she exonerates, she is almost certainly destined for Germany. A representative of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement told INSIDER that she had spent her visa in the US too long and that she intended to deport her once the procedure was completed. completed.

Spodek is confident that Delvey will "continue to do great things" after the trial. "It's a smart woman who broke the doors, these doors are not open by themselves," he told INSIDER. "I'm sure someone with such a past will continue to do great things."

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