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CNN
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
How fake heiress Anna Delvey is carefully crafting her second act
What is it about Anna Delvey that fascinates so many people? Including your humble crew at United States of Scandal? Why has she captured so many column inches in newspapers and pages in magazines, filled so many hours of footage in podcasts, Netflix dramatizations, and news broadcasts? From her false identity as a German heiress to financial deception, grand larceny, serving time at Rikers, competing on Dancing with the Stars, and now pursuing a career in fashion, Anna's journey has been nothing short of fascinating. Having met and interviewed her in 2022, I still can't quite figure her out or provide a simple answer as to why so many found her story so captivating. That 2022 interview made it clear how she embodies both an aspirational glamour and deception, acting as a mirror that reflects some ugly truths about American society. Flash forward to this new interview: Anna and I are drinking coffee, sitting across from one another. She sits poised, composed, and carefully calculated. But as the interview wears on, I realize that beneath that facade was a woman entirely focused on crafting her second act. Her carefully chosen words reveal an intense focus on her future, without, it seems to me, confronting the full weight of her actions. Instead of publicly acknowledging the damage she caused, Delvey frames her criminal past as a mere setback, as if it were part of her personal narrative to overcome. She still doesn't see herself as someone who intentionally did wrong, but rather as a young and naïve social climber who had all intention of paying everyone back whom she stole from. Is it an act? Regardless of what you may think of her, the key point is that so many of you do think of her. Whether on instagram or Netflix, podcasts or CNN, she is in the limelight. Is she a reflection of the quintessentially American system that allows us all to write our own narratives? Perhaps the real question is not who Anna Delvey is, but what her story reveals about us.
CNN
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
How fake heiress Anna Delvey is carefully crafting her second act
What is it about Anna Delvey that fascinates so many people? Including your humble crew at United States of Scandal? Why has she captured so many column inches in newspapers and pages in magazines, filled so many hours of footage in podcasts, Netflix dramatizations, and news broadcasts? From her false identity as a German heiress to financial deception, grand larceny, serving time at Rikers, competing on Dancing with the Stars, and now pursuing a career in fashion, Anna's journey has been nothing short of fascinating. Having met and interviewed her in 2022, I still can't quite figure her out or provide a simple answer as to why so many found her story so captivating. That 2022 interview made it clear how she embodies both an aspirational glamour and deception, acting as a mirror that reflects some ugly truths about American society. Flash forward to this new interview: Anna and I are drinking coffee, sitting across from one another. She sits poised, composed, and carefully calculated. But as the interview wears on, I realize that beneath that facade was a woman entirely focused on crafting her second act. Her carefully chosen words reveal an intense focus on her future, without, it seems to me, confronting the full weight of her actions. Instead of publicly acknowledging the damage she caused, Delvey frames her criminal past as a mere setback, as if it were part of her personal narrative to overcome. She still doesn't see herself as someone who intentionally did wrong, but rather as a young and naïve social climber who had all intention of paying everyone back whom she stole from. Is it an act? Regardless of what you may think of her, the key point is that so many of you do think of her. Whether on instagram or Netflix, podcasts or CNN, she is in the limelight. Is she a reflection of the quintessentially American system that allows us all to write our own narratives? Perhaps the real question is not who Anna Delvey is, but what her story reveals about us.
CNN
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
How fake heiress Anna Delvey is carefully crafting her second act
What is it about Anna Delvey that fascinates so many people? Including your humble crew at United States of Scandal? Why has she captured so many column inches in newspapers and pages in magazines, filled so many hours of footage in podcasts, Netflix dramatizations, and news broadcasts? From her false identity as a German heiress to financial deception, grand larceny, serving time at Rikers, competing on Dancing with the Stars, and now pursuing a career in fashion, Anna's journey has been nothing short of fascinating. Having met and interviewed her in 2022, I still can't quite figure her out or provide a simple answer as to why so many found her story so captivating. That 2022 interview made it clear how she embodies both an aspirational glamour and deception, acting as a mirror that reflects some ugly truths about American society. Flash forward to this new interview: Anna and I are drinking coffee, sitting across from one another. She sits poised, composed, and carefully calculated. But as the interview wears on, I realize that beneath that facade was a woman entirely focused on crafting her second act. Her carefully chosen words reveal an intense focus on her future, without, it seems to me, confronting the full weight of her actions. Instead of publicly acknowledging the damage she caused, Delvey frames her criminal past as a mere setback, as if it were part of her personal narrative to overcome. She still doesn't see herself as someone who intentionally did wrong, but rather as a young and naïve social climber who had all intention of paying everyone back whom she stole from. Is it an act? Regardless of what you may think of her, the key point is that so many of you do think of her. Whether on instagram or Netflix, podcasts or CNN, she is in the limelight. Is she a reflection of the quintessentially American system that allows us all to write our own narratives? Perhaps the real question is not who Anna Delvey is, but what her story reveals about us.
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
How the Livestrong wristband survived Lance Armstrong
Editor's Note: Jake Tapper goes behind the headlines to investigate some of the most outrageous and iconic political controversies of the modern era. Watch 'United States of Scandal' Sundays at 9p ET/PT on CNN. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, said Shakespeare's Henry IV, but the king of cycling, Lance Armstrong, wasn't content with his athletic garland, he had the rest of us wearing something too: those yellow silicone gel wristbands that read LIVESTRONG. Introduced in 2004 as part of his cancer foundation, those wristbands were on the wrists of tens of millions of us, including celebrities, politicians, and even Armstrong's rivals at the 2004 Tour de France. They were a symbol of the investment we all had in the success of the well-spoken, handsome, inspiring athlete, who went from battling advanced testicular cancer at 25 to dominating his sport only a few years later. What a story! Marketed by NIKE and bought by so many of us, Lance Armstrong as we understood him was a myth we all wanted to believe was true. Those few not blinded by the desire to believe Armstrong's story, who knew he was doping, suffered greatly. Given how prevalent doping was in cycling at the time, it may be that the truest scandal in the whole saga was his lying and bullying. For the newest episode of United States of Scandal, we spoke with his one-time and whistleblower teammate Floyd Landis, reporter David Walsh, and team carer-turned- whistleblower Emma O'Reilly, all of whom tried to bring to light evidence of his doping. They saw firsthand how the confidence and intensity that Armstrong used in his pursuit of perfection on his bike could be viciously turned on those who dared to question him. The specifics of his brutality toward these whistle-blowers, as well as close friends like Betsy Andreu, the wife of former teammate Frankie Andreu, are a stunning parallel to the behavior Armstrong showed in his sport. He had a shield – the investment of corporate sponsors such as NIKE, which said that Armstrong misled the company for more than a decade. In fact, several interviewees told us that, had Armstrong not attempted a comeback after his retirement, at a time when he was no longer the unquestioned champion, they think the system protecting Armstrong from public scrutiny might never have cracked. Upon the revelation, he was stripped of his seven consecutive Tour de France titles, along with major endorsements and one Olympic medal. He was banned from the sport of cycling for life. Everyone was parting ways from the former legend. The Livestrong organization remained the one uncontested part of Armstrong's story. However, in the words of the foundation's CEO Suzanne Stone, 'In 2012, Livestrong and Armstrong got a divorce. He got the bike, and we kept the house.' The essence of the movement continues. They are focused on helping people live with cancer — as Lance Armstrong so valiantly embodied in the early years of his career. Ultimately, we discovered that the story of Lance Armstrong is more than a simple story about an athlete cheating; it asks compelling questions about the nature of champions, and the responsibility of the systems that support them. We hope you'll tune in Sunday.
CNN
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
How Lance Armstrong's scandal changed Livestrong forever
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, said Shakespeare's Henry IV, but the king of cycling, Lance Armstrong, wasn't content with his athletic garland, he had the rest of us wearing something too: those yellow silicone gel wristbands that read LIVESTRONG. Introduced in 2004 as part of his cancer foundation, those wristbands were on the wrists of tens of millions of us, including celebrities, politicians, and even Armstrong's rivals at the 2004 Tour de France. They were a symbol of the investment we all had in the success of the well-spoken, handsome, inspiring athlete, who went from battling advanced testicular cancer at 25 to dominating his sport only a few years later. What a story! Marketed by NIKE and bought by so many of us, Lance Armstrong as we understood him was a myth we all wanted to believe was true. Those few not blinded by the desire to believe Armstrong's story, who knew he was doping, suffered greatly. Given how prevalent doping was in cycling at the time, it may be that the truest scandal in the whole saga was his lying and bullying. For the newest episode of United States of Scandal, we spoke with his one-time and whistleblower teammate Floyd Landis, reporter David Walsh, and team carer-turned- whistleblower Emma O'Reilly, all of whom tried to bring to light evidence of his doping. They saw firsthand how the confidence and intensity that Armstrong used in his pursuit of perfection on his bike could be viciously turned on those who dared to question him. The specifics of his brutality toward these whistle-blowers, as well as close friends like Betsy Andreu, the wife of former teammate Frankie Andreu, are a stunning parallel to the behavior Armstrong showed in his sport. He had a shield – the investment of corporate sponsors such as NIKE, which said that Armstrong misled the company for more than a decade. In fact, several interviewees told us that, had Armstrong not attempted a comeback after his retirement, at a time when he was no longer the unquestioned champion, they think the system protecting Armstrong from public scrutiny might never have cracked. Upon the revelation, he was stripped of his seven consecutive Tour de France titles, along with major endorsements and one Olympic medal. He was banned from the sport of cycling for life. Everyone was parting ways from the former legend. The Livestrong organization remained the one uncontested part of Armstrong's story. However, in the words of the foundation's CEO Suzanne Stone, 'In 2012, Livestrong and Armstrong got a divorce. He got the bike, and we kept the house.' The essence of the movement continues. They are focused on helping people live with cancer — as Lance Armstrong so valiantly embodied in the early years of his career. Ultimately, we discovered that the story of Lance Armstrong is more than a simple story about an athlete cheating; it asks compelling questions about the nature of champions, and the responsibility of the systems that support them. We hope you'll tune in Sunday.
