![]() But I only went up to Rikers three times throughout her entire time being locked up, because treat you bad ’cause they hate the people that are the inmates. The show shows I visit her so many times. So this is 2018, when you visited her in prison? I went to go visit her ’cause she needed some panties and magazines-she wanted business and Forbes-type magazines and fashion magazines. I knew that they went to Morocco, but I didn’t know that Morocco ended bad. That’s when I found out about the Morocco trip. I’m like, “Oh my gosh, I don’t even know you.” So then she just broke down everything that happened to her. I was like, “What is your real name?” And she’s just like laughing. When she finally called me, she was like, “I didn’t do it, Neff.” I was like, “They’re saying you did though.” I was like, “Well, give her my number.” Then I realized how expensive the calls were. ![]() ![]() She was like, Anna wants to speak to you. So then Jessica interviews me at my apartment. So I felt almost like, thank God, I didn’t know about it because I was really hanging with this woman.Īt what point did you get back in touch with her and visit her at Rikers? But I kind of got over it because I’m like, okay, if she had told me about that, I would’ve been obligated to not, like, fuck with her anymore. So yeah, it did hurt my feelings initially. I’m just like laughing at the time because you think you know this person, but then you realize you didn’t know this person. They were like, her last name’s not even Delvey. I was like, “Wait a minute, Anna? The heiress millionaire that was giving me thousands of dollars just to recommend her to, like, Uncle Boons?” She was like, “Yeah, she’s in jail.” Then she sent me articles and I started to read them and Google her. So I had no idea that the New York Post had wrote anything about her and that she was a scammer until Jessica DMed me. to like 3 P.M., and then I’m working on film stuff. You don’t have time to be looking at anything-you’re dealing with crazy people that want their crack cocaine, which is their coffee at 5 A.M. Starbucks is one of those jobs where you live by the siren. I’m like in my own world, living in Harlem at the time, going to the the Diamond District for work. So you hadn’t followed the news of Anna’s indictment or arrest? ![]() So at the time Jessica interviewed me, I was a manager at Starbucks. I was just so tired of being in Soho and dealing with rude guests. I had already left 11 Howard when Jessica interviewed me-she interviewed me about seven months after I quit. They made up a lot of stuff to kind of speed up. Neffatari Davis: It’s a lot different from what the show shows. Vanity Fair: I want to talk about your work consulting on the series, but first, can you take me back through the last three and a half years of your life since you talked to Jessica? On the heels of Inventing Anna’s premiere, Davis describes her strange relationship with Anna, her whirlwind experience joining Shondaland, the Oscar-winning actor who she says tried to buy her life rights, and why it might finally be time to walk away from the Delvey scandal. And when Shonda Rhimes bought the rights to the piece for a Netflix series called Inventing Anna, the producer also bought the rights to Davis’s story and made Davis, an aspiring filmmaker, a paid consultant on the series, as well as a main character (played by Alexis Floyd). Davis shared her recollections of the mysterious heiress with Pressler, helping piece together Sorokin’s audacious scam for what would prove to be a bombshell New York magazine feature. ![]()
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