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You know, exchanges like these: Are you allowed to decorate it?

The ankle bracelet or my home?

Her exploits made her something of a New York legend.

Shes either a folk hero or a prodigious con artist who indiscriminately messed with lives for personal gain.

Its probably some mix of both, and then some.

At least, thats the pitch of the thing.

In the age ofconstant reinvention via podcast,The Anna Delvey Showmakes for a textbook public-relations play.

Listen, Im not one to judge.

You should talk more, said Whitney Cummings, who served as the shows inaugural guest.

You have an experience very few have, added Cummings.

She never does get those answers.

There is an obvious question to be asked of all this.

To what extent isThe Anna Delvey Showpart of some bigger con?

But its a boring inquiry.Of courseits part of a bigger con.

What is social-media celebrity if not an elaborate act of public performance and obfuscation for financial gain?

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