Inventing Anna. Julia Garner as Anna Delvery in episode 104 of Inventing Anna. Cr. Nicole Rivelli/Netflix © 2021.
Built in the 1894 by architects Edward J. Neville Stent and Robert W. Gibson, 281 Park Avenue South was originally the headquarters of the Episcopal Church’s Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and was called the Church Missions House. It was part of what was known as Charity Row, for the glut of charitable institutions located in the surrounding blocks.
Over a century later, the building caught the eye of Sorokin, a Russian immigrant with big dreams for making a name for herself in New York’s art world. Posing as a German heiress set to inherit a massive trust fund on her 25th birthday, Sorokin sought“She had really, really good taste,” Nicole Oge, a founding partner at Official, told. “I can tell you there is nothing like it: the detail, the character, the feeling, the lighting.
281 Park Avenue South, known as the Church Missions House, is for sale. Socialite con artist Anna Delvey wanted to make the building the headquarters for the Anna Delvey Foundation. Photo courtesy of Official. But Sorokin maintained her lavish lifestyle by running up expensive hotel bills and depositing fake checks to fraudulently withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from banks.
Y’all tripping. This girl is the shit. She didn’t do anything but live the American Dream. Hell I know Diaper Companies who have committed worse crimes. annadelvey