Journalism is always to tell the story from the bottom and up from the victim side in this case Cecilia and Pranilla so I think that makes a big difference indeed. And with Simon even if he isn't recognizing what he's done if he's doing that Trumpian thing it sounds like Anna too you know they don't necessarily recognize or internalize what they've done wrong. The author Frederick Joseph has talked about the tender swindler and said that if it had been a black man who was swindling white women like that he would be in prison right now. What do you think about that comment? Well I certainly hope it's not true maybe I live in a fantasy
Anna Delvey and Simon Leviev, now infamously known as The Fake Heiress and The Tinder Swindler, are two characters who have infiltrated pop culture and gripped Netflix viewers over recent months. Their joint claim to fame? They're both notorious con artists. So why are viewers and listeners so drawn to these stories of true crime? Writer and author Rachel Williams and journalist Erlend Ofte Arntsen were closely involved in the real-life stories that shaped Netflix's The Tinder Swindler and Inventing Anna. They join journalist and broadcaster Manveen Rana to help provide some answers.
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