In the Netflix series Inventing Anna, just after a magazine publishes the dramatic story of Anna Sorokin’s impressive fraud, a woman walks out of a store wearing a T-shirt that says “Fake German Heiress.” Because who wouldn’t want to be a fake German heiress?

The moment captures instantly the amusement and admiration behind the public response to this real-life story. Inventing Anna, a lightly fictionalized TV series based on Jessica Pressler’s long New York magazine cover story, chronicles the rise and fall of Anna Delvey, née Anna Sorokin, a young middle-class, Russian-born woman who pretended to be a German heiress and lived large for about four years, hobnobbing with Manhattan’s rich and famous. She was even taken seriously as a client by major banks and hedge funds, including a fund called Fortress.

Inventing Anna features some of the best clothes ever seen in a TV series, better even than Sex and the City. The even bigger source of delight here, however, is Anna Delvey’s chutzpah. She steals a private jet. She uses a real heiress’s yacht without permission. She stays in some of New York’s fanciest hotels without paying.