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The best TV shows and films based on real-life stories - from The Crown to Hustlers

From The Crown to Hustlers, here are the best films and TV shows based on true events

Woman & Home

'Girlboss' scammer shows are everywhere. Which ones should you watch?

For the last few years, scammers and corporate con men and women (but especially women) who tricked America's elites have captured headlines. But in the last few months, the most prominent ones got the Hollywood treatment from major streaming sites: swindler-socialite Anna Sorokin in Netflix's "Inventing Anna," famous fraudster Elizabeth…

Tribune News Service

Cheating the audience: what went wrong with Inventing Anna?

The Netflix series on ‘Soho grifter’ Anna Delvey is at once overlong and underwhelming

The Guardian - US

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‘Is she evil, or is society evil?’: The inside story behind disturbing Netflix series Inventing Anna

Netflix series Inventing Anna is based on the New York Magazine article 'How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People' by journalist Jessica Pressler.

The New Daily

Atrocious journalism in "Inventing Anna"

The Netflix show about a conwoman also spins a fraudulent idea of what a journalist is like

Salon

Inventing Anna: Real-life journalist Jessica Pressler clears up what’s fact and what’s fiction

‘I definitely did not try to break into anyone’s home,’ she insisted

The Independent UK

Avoid the scam that is "Inventing Anna"

As easy as it was to love the idea of Anna Delvey, Shonda Rhimes never explains why, yet says far too much

Salon

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Review: 'Inventing Anna's' greatest failure: It's as shallow as its subject

From "Fyre Fraud" to "The Tinder Swindler," con artists and their schemes have provided an endless font of material for television docuseries. No need to labor over fictional narratives about brazen frauds when reality has given us Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff. But in the spirit of fixing something that's…

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