Reported by Kirsten Fleming

She’s got the gall, but does she have the moves?
We’ll soon find out when con woman Anna Delvey — who served nearly four years in prison for posing as a German heiress to scam hotels, socialites and banks out of $250,000 — takes a shot at the Mirrorball Trophy.
It was announced Wednesday that she is joining the new season of “Dancing with the Stars,” alongside retired NFL receiver Danny Amendola, Olympians Ilona Maher and Stephen Nedoroscik and a few reality stars looking to stay relevant.
Disney-owned ABC’s press release shamelessly sanitized Delvey’s resume, calling her “an artist, fashion icon and infamous NYC socialite who gained international attention after Netflix purchased the rights to her story and developed it into the 2022 miniseries ‘Inventing Anna.’”
The show’s Wikipedia page, however, was more accurate in its description: “convicted fraudster.”
The official announcement featured Delvey, née Anna Sorokin, in a glitzy,thigh-baring golden dress that showed off her most important accessory: her ankle bracelet.
That is her schtick, after all. The wink, the nod. She’s still a bad girl — locked down by ICE — on house arrest, only now a judge has expanded her “home” range by nearly 3,000 miles.
Delvey is what you’d call an aspirational convict, one who proves that crime does pay. She has spun her criminal notoriety into a career as a downtown It girl with fashion connections and fawning press.
Read full report: https://nypost.com/2024/09/04/entertainment/pop-culture-has-sunk-to-a-new-low-with-anna-delvey-on-dwts/