Whoopi Goldberg and her co-hosts on The View weren’t particularly thrilled with the casting of Anna Delvey on Dancing With The Stars this week, and today Delvey, the so-called fake heiress and convicted con artist who was the subject of the Netflix show Inventing Anna, is no happier with The View.
“While you are entitled to your own opinions,” Delvey writes in a response on the View‘s X page, “you should at least get your facts straight. I served my time and paid everyone back in full 3+ years ago. Looking forward to your on-air correction.”
In an otherwise identical statement Delvey sent to The New York Post, the DWTS hopeful added, according to the Post, “Stay nasty ladies, but don’t forget to vote September 17th!” (September 17 is the premiere date of the new season of the ABC dance competition.)
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On the ABC daytime talker yesterday, Goldberg and other View panelists took issue with Delvey’s casting on the reality show, with Goldberg noting that the Russia-born Delvey, who ran afoul of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after overstaying her VISA following a prison term on larceny charges, seems to be getting special treatment.
Said Goldberg yesterday, “I think back to all the families who’ve had family members arrested by ICE, who have gone to the courts to get their dad or their brother or their mother back, and this woman, they gave her permission to go do this?” She added, “Is there a two-tiered system with ICE?”
Both Goldberg and co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said that Delvey still owed money to the victims of the fraud that landed Delvey in prison. She was released from prison in 2021 but, at the behest of ICE, remains under house arrest at her Manhattan apartment pending a decision on her bid to remain in the U.S. She has been granted court permission to travel to Los Angeles to compete on DWTS, though she’s required to wear an ankle monitor.
Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, has reportedly used earnings from the Netflix show Inventing Anna to repay her debts.
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