Inventing Anna’s Real-Life Neff on Befriending a Con Artist: “The Bitch Was Good”

In 2018, Neffatari “Neff” Davis received a strange D.M. from journalist Jessica Pressler. The New York magazine reporter (and later, V.F. special correspondent) told Davis she was investigating Davis’s close friend, Anna. Davis didn’t know who she was talking about. A year earlier, while Davis was working as a concierge at the luxury 11 Howard hotel, she had met an Anna Delvey—a mysterious woman who styled herself as a German heiress and tipped Davis $100 bills for recommendations for local restaurants. Delvey (whose actual name, Davis would learn from Pressler, was Anna Sorokin) stayed at the hotel for months, and… Read Full Article