![]() ![]() Self-belief and positive thinking are all well and good, but left unchecked, they can push people into a distorted reality. The logic then follows that if you’re in poverty, disadvantaged or unsuccessful, well, that’s because you didn’t go to the lengths to get where you want to be in the future, to paraphrase Love Island influencer Molly-Mae Hague. Within this culture – which appears to be most prevalent on the image-based site Instagram, with #hustle appearing 28.7m times, shortly followed by #grind on 24.8m posts – wealth and success are prized above all, with the myth reinforced by influencers that if you just #hustle hard enough, the world is yours for the taking. What the now-convicted Sorokin, McFarland and Holmes have in common – apart from being venture capitalist-whisperers with a staggering level of entitlement – is that their trajectory seems to coincide with the rise of the concept of “hustle” on social media. There are echoes of Billy McFarland’s disastrous Fyre festival, immortalised in 2019’s Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened – McFarland believed he could pull off a luxury, A-lister music festival on a Caribbean island, despite never having worked a day in events production in his life. In Inventing Anna, Delvey (Julia Garner) screams at her tech-bro boyfriend that of course her arts foundation – named after herself, naturally – will succeed, because she deserves it. The Dropout shows Holmes (played by Amanda Seyfried) being told that there is no way a pin-prick blood test to accurately detect myriad illnesses could ever work but wide-eyed, on she continues, lying to investors – and, horrifyingly, to patients. Perhaps that’s because at the heart of each of their stories lies a question: did they really believe that their visions would become a reality? Or were they out to scam people from the start? But the drive to turn them into glossy, high-end TV dramas with star-studded casts suggests that we view their protagonists as more than mere tricksters: we are intrigued, even beguiled by them. Her trial lawyer cast her as an ambitious entrepreneur who got in over her head financially and was simply buying time to pay her debts.Each of these stories is stranger than fiction, and has already spawned podcast series and investigative magazine features. ![]() Prosecutors said Sorokin falsified records and lied to get banks to lend, luxury hotels to let her stay and well-heeled New Yorkers to cover plane tickets and other expenses for her, stealing $275,000 in all. ![]() She falsely claimed to be the daughter of a diplomat or an oil baron. Using the name Anna Delvey, Sorokin manoeuvred her way into elite New York social circles by passing herself off as a socialite with a $US67 million ($93 million) fortune overseas. Sorokin, who was convicted in 2019 and spent more than three years behind bars, has since been challenging deportation.Īn appellate immigration judge last month declined to stop the 31-year-old German citizen from being removed. ICE said only that she remained in the agency's custody. He said Sorokin filed papers on Monday seeking to hold off being ejected from the country. She remains jailed in New York's Hudson Valley, her lawyer Manny Arora said. Sorokin, whose scheme inspired the recent Netflix series Inventing Anna, was taken into custody by US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) nearly a year ago. ![]()
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