The Building Anna Delvey Wanted to Buy Is Now on the Market for $135 Million
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Anna Delvey wanted to host her Anna Delvey Foundation, a "Soho House-ish type club," at 281 Park Avenue South. To make that happen, she posed as a German heiress to scam people and institutions to fund her. She was eventually indicted on charges of grand larceny, attempted grand larceny and theft of services—a saga that was depicted in Netflix's Inventing Anna, starring Julia Garner as Delvey.
The building at the heart of her scam—281 Park Avenue South, also known as Church Missions House—is now on the market for $135 million, more than five times the $29 million that Delvey was trying to raise. (The building was sold for $50 million in 2014.)
Fotografiska, a photography museum, signed a lease in 2017. Allegedly, Delvey was enraged at the news, and New York Magazine reported she said, "How do they even pay for that? It’s like two old guys."
The building was built in 1894 by architects Edward J. Neville Stent and Robert W. Gibson. "I can tell you there is nothing like it: the detail, the character, the feeling, the lighting," Tal Alexander, whose firm Official has the listing for the property, told Curbed of the building. Anna "had really, really good taste," Nicole Oge, a founding partner at Official, added.
Anna Delvey is not likely to try and purchase the building again. As of June 2022, she remains in ICE custody in Orange County Jail, where she was detained for overstaying her visa. She is waiting on an appeal to be released. She also signed on to a new docuseries that will pick up where Inventing Anna ends, and is making art and launching NFTs. Ultimately, she wants to move away from being known as a "scammer."
"I just like hate seeing all the scammer and fake heiress headlines. So it's not something I enjoy, like trying to lean in to promote," Delvey said in a recent interview with NBC News. "I’d love to be given an opportunity for people not to just dismiss me as a quote-unquote scammer."
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