Money may talk, but real wealth whispers. And Anna Delvey’s constant name-drops? Those are more like screams into the void. In the new Shondaland drama Inventing Anna, Delvey — masterfully played by Julia Garner — is constantly mentioning famous people, places and, of course, fashion labels in the most ostentatious way possible. While her actual bank balance is a well-kept secret, Delvey makes sure the world knows that her parties are populated with real estate moguls and world-renowned artists, that she’s been to all the hottest new restaurants and that she only gets the most expensive designer pieces as gifts for her friends. In fact, Anna drops so many names, it’s hard not to trip — and to wonder just who all these people actually are. 

To help you keep up with Anna and her inner circle, we’ve put together a comprehensive, chronological glossary of all these famous (and infamous) names. Just sit back, relax and immerse yourself in this 2017 social-climbing fever dream. See you at Lucien!

Episode 1

Melania: It’s actually the journalists, not Anna, who drop the first few names in Inventing Anna. And of course Melania Trump, former first lady of the United States, gets a mention as someone the hard-boiled journos in “Scriberia” have covered extensively — whether they wanted to or not.

The Obamas: Okay, yes, we all know who the Obamas are, but the seasoned newshounds who work with Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky) can’t help but shout out the much-missed former first family.

Manhattan magazine: This is where all the magic happens, meaning this is where Vivian works on her Anna Delvey piece. Though Manhattan magazine isn’t real, it’s based on the very real New York magazine, where reporter Jessica Pressler published the story that inspired Inventing Anna.

Fashion Week: Fashion Week isn’t a person — it’s an event. Or rather, in New York City, it’s a full week of events — most notably, fashion shows and lots of late-night parties. When Vivian says Anna’s indictment includes practically “all of Fashion Week,” she just means it’s all the scene’s major players — everyone you’d expect to see sitting in the very front row.

Fortress: Think money — lots of it. Founded as a private equity firm in 1998, Fortress has since snowballed into a self-described “highly diversified global investment manager.” It now manages more than $54 billion in assets. Okay!

Cy: Short for Cyrus Vance Jr., Cy was the district attorney of New York County in 2017, when Anna was charged with a veritable grab bag of crimes.

Robin Hood: A fashionably dressed, 645-year-old folk hero who’s more popular than ever these days — considering his life’s work is stealing from the rich to give to the poor. He’s also a stock trading app, so. 

The Beekman: A vaunted hotel in Manhattan’s Financial District boasting a soaring atrium and the kind of luxe furnishings that upscale travel mags go gaga over. A one-night stay in a deluxe corner suite has a price tag of $1,949.

The W: There are a few W Hotels in New York City — and in true Anna fashion, she chose the Union Square location, a fashionable Beaux Arts building with a downtown vibe. A one-night stay in a Cool Corner Suite will run you $519. A steal compared to the Beekman.

12 George Hotel: This fictional hotel seems to be a stand-in for the real-life 11 Howard Hotel, a sexy boutique hotel in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. Its official description is oh so Anna: “Danish minimalism meets New York realism.” Booking the Terrace Suite will set you back $3,000 a night, last we checked. Casual.

Harvey: Harvey Weinstein. Where do we even start? Disgraced former Hollywood producer and just a disgrace in general. Actually, more of a menace to society. Notably, it was through in-depth investigative journalism that Weinstein’s crimes were exposed to the world.

Jodi, Megan and Ronan: Speak of the devil — we mean, Harvey Weinstein — it was real-life journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, at the New York Times, and Ronan Farrow, at the New Yorker, who exposed Weinstein with their unrelenting reporting. It’s the kind of work that Vivian wants to do at Manhattan magazine. 

Ailey: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, a New York City institution that celebrates African American traditions within the framework of ballet and modern dance. Its opening night — black tie, naturally — is where Anna’s lawyer, Todd, and his wife, Mags, are headed in Episode 1, showing that they’re not just supporters of the arts, but also cool supporters of the arts. American Ballet Theater is for boomers. 

WeWork: Shared office spaces that investors and disruptors thought would be “the future of the workplace”! Psych! 

Storm King: Storm King Art Center, a massive outdoor museum about a 90-minute drive north of NYC that showcases equally massive sculptures by artists like Alexander Calder, Richard Serra and Isamu Noguchi. Very Instagram-friendly.

Gucci: Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1921 and known worldwide for its trademarked green-and-red stripes — and murder, thanks to Lady Gaga.

Louboutins: Luxe shoes, often stiletto in nature, defined by their red soles and designed by French fashion designer Christian Louboutin. Also known as “red bottoms.”

Louis Vuitton: A 168-year-old French fashion house that’s all about its “LV” logo. Often duplicated, never replicated. 

Rick Owens: This Californian fashion designer has been called the Lord of Darkness, due to his namesake brand’s edgy, gothic vibe. High-profile devotees include Rihanna and Megan Thee Stallion — and anyone who knows that personal style does not require flashing recognizable labels.

Carolina Herrera: A Venezuelan-born fashion designer known for both couture and casual elegance (no one dresses up a classic white button-down like Herrera) and a popular pick among the “ladies who lunch” set. This is the first brand Anna suggests when she tells Vivian she needs to “get better clothes.”

Dior: A French luxury fashion house — the second of Anna’s “helpful” hints for Vivian’s wardrobe, though they’re not remotely affordable on most journalists’ salaries. 

Valentino: An Italian fashion house well known for both couture and luxury goods. You’ve definitely seen the brand’s attention-grabbing Rockstuds before.

Chanel: With its unmistakable double-C logo, this French fashion brand has both a century of cachet and a certain je ne sais quoi that feels forever relevant. Anna thinks Vivian should start wearing Chanel flats; too bad they cost about $850 a pair.

Hannibal Lecter: Cinema’s favorite gourmand serial killer. After watching The Silence of the Lambs, entire generations of moviegoers never looked at fava beans or Chianti the same way again. One of Vivian’s colleagues compares him to Anna, which doesn’t seem totally fair. Then again, they are both very aesthetically particular.

Episode 2

Alaïa: A fashion brand that was founded by "totally important designer" Azzedine Alaïa in the 1980s and introduced to millions of ’90s teens by Cher Horowitz in Clueless.

Balenciaga: This fashion house was founded by Cristóbal Balenciaga, who was revered for his extraordinary structural designs; today, it’s helmed by risk-taking designer Demna Gvasalia, who has modernized the brand, and is known for his ultra-stylized sneakers and dressing Kim Kardashian in head-to-toe fetishwear for the 2021 Met Gala.

Mr. Chow: Manhattan has not one but two outposts of this opulent, high-end Chinese restaurant chain. How high end? Well, the sweet and sour pork will set you back a cool $38. 

Lucien: A scene-y downtown Manhattan French bistro, beloved by the art and fashion world. Recently in the news for hosting Julia Fox’s birthday party, the one where Ye got Fox and all her friends new Birkin bags. Pro tip: Even though Anna thinks the best thing to order there is the salmon, it’s actually the steak au poivre. 

The Waverly (Inn): Owned by Graydon Carter — formerly editor in chief of Vanity Fair, currently proprietor of the newsletter publication Air Mail — the Waverly Inn is an exclusive, moody always-booked restaurant that’s as beloved for its snobbish qualities as it is reviled. But how about that chicken potpie!

Eloise: The titular character of a children’s book series written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight. Eloise lives in a penthouse at the Plaza Hotel with her nanny, pug and turtle, and she never pays for a thing. Clearly, an icon for Anna. 

Central Saint Martins: The Oxford of art schools. Located in London, Central Saint Martins is the alma mater of some of the most famous fashion designers in the world, including Alexander McQueen, Riccardo Tisci and Sarah Burton.

Purple magazine: The lascivious, arty-pervy “fashion” magazine run by lascivious, arty-pervy Olivier Zahm, who mostly fills its pages with black-and-white photos of women he finds irresistible.

Montauk: Located on the easternmost tip of Long Island, Montauk was once a quaint fishing village, but has become very attractive to party-seeking young New Yorkers who find the Hamptons too stodgy — and a touch too expensive.

ACME Bar: Descending the glowing red staircase to this subterranean club under the NYC restaurant of the same name was an interest that Anna and her pal Val shared (and Instagrammed) in 2013. In 2021, people are still partying at ACME and sipping on evocatively named drinks, like the “Disappearing Act,” “Citrus Got Real,” “Trust a Ginger” and “Red Queen.” 

Ibiza: A Spanish island in the Mediterranean that’s a popular tourist destination among the rich and famous, thanks to its nightlife and electronic music club scene.

The Hamptons: The preferred location for second homes, summer cottages and weekend getaways among NYC’s wealthiest residents. Last year, a beach house went on sale in Southampton for $175 million. A steal!

Cindy Sherman: An American artist who pioneered a new form of self-portraiture with her “Untitled Film Stills,” in which she transformed herself completely by dressing up as a variety of different women. (No wonder Anna recognized the genius in her work.) 

SoHo House: A private members club and hotel with 28 locations worldwide. Think rooftop pools, screening rooms and highly selective membership policies — but not selective enough for Anna.

Tesla: The manufacturer of fully electric cars. CEO Elon Musk’s antics (naming his seventh child X AE A-XII, getting sued by the SEC for tweeting, clumsily smoking a weed cigar while taping a podcast) distract from the company’s innovations in sustainability.

Harvard: ​​Natalie Portman’s alma mater. Oh, and it’s in Cambridge, not Boston.

Episode 3

John Lennon: Chances are you know him as one of the following things: the glasses-wearing member of the Beatles; Yoko Ono’s husband; the solo artist behind “Imagine,” a song forever ruined by quarantined celebrities in 2020.

Natori: A New York-based fashion brand that sells women’s lingerie and loungewear, primarily at upscale department stores.

Bergdorf’s: Short for Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury department store located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. You’ve probably seen it in iconic films like How to Marry a Millionaire, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Sex and the City 2 and Ocean’s 8. 

Gabriel Calatrava: Gabriel Calatrava is indeed a real person and a real architect — Anna was right about that. He’s the son of Spanish “starchitect” Santiago Calatrava, who designed Manhattan’s World Trade Center Transportation Hub Oculus. 

Givenchy: A French luxury fashion and beauty brand founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy. A favorite of Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis.

Kandinsky: A painter and theorist known as one of the pioneers of the abstract movement. Big circles and lines guy — like, huge circles and lines guy.

Church Missions House/281 Park: A historic building in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, which once served as the headquarters of the Episcopal Church's Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. In 2019, it became home to Fotografiska New York, a branch of the Swedish photography museum, much to Anna Delvey’s displeasure.

Miuccia Prada: The head designer of esteemed Italian fashion house Prada (originally founded by her grandfather, Mario), Miuccia Prada has been one of the most influential designers of the last quarter century. She’s also the head of Miu Miu, and thus responsible for the recent balaclava trend, which originated when The Crown’s Emma Corrin wore a yellow Miu Miu bonnet to the Emmys in 2021. 

Saffiano: A type of leather that was first created for Prada, which features a distinct crosshatch print pressed into a wax coating.

Oscar (de la Renta): Dominican fashion designer who gained international recognition in the 1960s by dressing first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. He worked for Lanvin and Balmain and created an eponymous fashion house.

Open Air: An interdisciplinary technology festival that was launched via crowdfunding in 2012 and takes place in Berlin, Germany; also known as Tech Open Air.

Berlin Biennale: A contemporary art exhibit put on every two to three years by the German government through the Federal Culture Foundation.

Michael Xufu Huang: Chinese art collector, patron and museum founder, who began collecting in 2010 at age 16 — a very unique after-school activity, indeed.

Richie Notar: General manager and co-owner of the celeb-favorite Nobu restaurants; he got his start as a busboy at the infamous ’70s nightclub, Studio 54.

Yoko Ono: A multimedia artist, singer-songwriter and activist who’s often incorrectly and rudely blamed for the breakup of The Beatles.

Neiman’s: Short for Neiman Marcus, this chain of luxury department stores is definitely a place where someone could spend a LOT of money on clothes and accessories.

Barneys: This era-defining NYC-based luxury department store filed for bankruptcy and subsequently closed in 2019, devastating Carrie Bradshaw and other shopping-obsessed New Yorkers.

Celine sunglasses: This French ready-to-wear and luxury goods brand offers understated yet aesthetically impactful frames. Perfect for putting on and avoiding eye contact with anyone who’s trying to get you to pay your bill.

Billy (McFarland): Con artist and cofounder of Fyre Festival, who defrauded investors of $27.4 million and is responsible for the saddest sandwich to ever exist.

Episode 4

Doris Salcedo: An award-winning Colombian artist whose sculptures and installations are often made with everyday items. She’s known for channeling her own trauma and loss, as well as the political turmoil of her home country, into creating spaces for collective mourning — so the Anna Delvey Foundation doesn’t exactly seem like the vibe for her art.

Christo: Bulgarian-born Christo Javacheff was one-half of the art duo known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who created large-scale installations that often involved wrapping key landmarks in fabric. They wrapped the Pont Neuf in Paris but never had the chance to do the Anna Delvey Foundation.

André Balazs: Founder and CEO of André Balazs Properties and the hotelier behind several famous spots around the globe like Chateau Marmont, the Standard and Chiltern Firehouse.

Aby Rosen: New York City-based real estate tycoon. Unlike Anna, he’s actually from Germany and actually rich, with over $15.5 billion in real estate holdings.

Neuehouse: A members-only coworking and social space for creative entrepreneurs in New York and Los Angeles.

The Wing: The millennial pink, girl boss version of Neuehouse. 

Micheline’s Restaurant: A fictional high-end New York City restaurant that looks to be based on Balthazar, the celebrated ​​brasserie in SoHo.

Belfort, Trump, Lehman, Madoff: Respectively, these guys are: the Wolf of Wall Street; Florida Man with legal issues, bankruptcies and tax liens; financial services firm that went bankrupt during the subprime mortgage crisis; fraudster behind the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Shady finance bros, all of them.

Koons: Jeff Koons is an American artist, perhaps best known for his giant stainless steel balloon animals. Apparently, some art snobs find his work “derivative,” but could a derivative artist create a 43-foot-tall sculpture of a puppy made entirely of plants? We think not.

Beauty & Essex: Though not actually mentioned by name, this popular restaurant and lounge is clearly the inspiration for a dining recommendation Anna gives to Alan. Both the fictional and real-life spots are located in the back of an unassuming pawnshop in the Lower East Side and feature interiors decked out with lots of glowing lamps. Unlike the fictional location though, the real Beauty & Essex never had food trucks.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway: Berkshire Hathaway is a multinational conglomerate whose chairman and Omaha-based CEO is American business magnate and billionaire Warren Buffett. Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders' meeting is known for being quite the party; The New York Times has referred to it as the “Woodstock for Capitalists,” while Vivian Kent called it “Warren Buffett's annual Coachella,” a much more current reference.

Rob Wiesenthal: Founder and CEO of Blade Urban Mobility, Inc, which is kind of like the Uber of private jets and helicopters. In 2017, Wiesenthal — referred to in the show as Ron not Rob — reported Anna to the police for failing to pay for a $35,000 charter flight she took using Blade. Scam recognizes scam though, because in a 2021 interview with Business Insider, Wiesenthal shared that Blade’s director of communications Simon McLaren was actually a persona he made up — he had posed as McLaren while speaking with many news outlets over the course of three years.

Bill Gates: Cofounder of Microsoft, billionaire, philanthropist, Melinda’s ex — you know the guy. Gates also served as a member of Berkshire Hathaway’s board of directors from 2004 to 2020, so of course, he never missed the annual meeting, aka “rich people money festival.”

Episode 5

Le Coucou: A French restaurant that was opened in 2016 by Chef Daniel Rose and restaurateur Stephen Starr at the 11 Howard hotel in SoHo. In 2017, the spot won the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant.

du Bellay 2005: Just your average $400 bottle of wine — or is it?? It seems like this vintage is probably faux, and its appearance in Inventing Anna is a clever way to connect different parts of the Shondaland universe.

Lady Grey tea: A variation of Earl Grey tea that was trademarked by Twinings in the early 1990s. The tea company describes this version as “softer, more elegant” — ya know, like a lady.

Jupiter Group: A full-service staffing and solutions firm specializing in information technology and finance & accounting professionals. We hope this clears things up for you.

Martin Shkreli: Former hedge fund manager, “Pharma Bro” and convicted felon who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for fraud. Notorious for having increased the price of the HIV/AIDS medication his company produced (from $13.50 to $750 per pill), Shkreli is also widely known for being the dude who “disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan.” 

1975 Dom: Widely considered one of Dom Pérignon’s finest vintages. A bottle of the Brut can go for over $600. Save this for your real friends.

“One of the Culkins. Maybe the one from Home Alone. Maybe the other one.”: Could be in reference to Macaulay Culkin, who once starred opposite Anna Chlumsky — aka Vivian Kent — in ’90s movie My Girl, or Kieran Culkin, known best for his portrayal of Roman Roy in the HBO drama Succession. Both Culkins happen to be very hot “chaos goblins,” for what it’s worth. 

Tha Carter V: Lil Wayne’s 12th studio album, which was officially released in September 2018. Martin Shkreli acquired access to the unfinished project in 2016 after Wayne apparently left a copy on a CD in a Bugatti Veyron he sold to “some guy.” The guy then sold the CD to Shkreli, who subsequently leaked track 8, “Mona Lisa,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, via livestream.

The Blond: A cocktail bar located inside 11 Howard that features bar-bites made by the restaurant staff at nearby Le Coucou.

Kendrick Lamar: A 13-time Grammy Award–winning rapper who was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2016 and became the first nonclassical or jazz artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2018 with his album DAMN. He has arguably also been disrespected by Martin Shkreli.

Yeezy: A fashion collaboration between Kanye West and Adidas, a sportswear brand that’s well known for its Yeezy Boost sneakers. Though the collab’s first shoe was released in February 2015, Kim Kardashian is still sporting them.

Supreme: An American streetwear brand founded in New York City in 1994 that’s known for releasing select pieces from its biannual collections every Thursday. Many New York pedestrians simply know it as that one store with the red sign and really long line.

Sant Ambroeus: This New York City–based brand has restaurants, coffee bars and a gelateria in NYC, Southampton and Palm Beach. Very chic, even if most people would hesitate before saying the name out loud. (FYI, it’s pronounced “Sahnt Ahm-bro-yous.”)

Episode 6

Khloé Kardashian: Social media and reality TV star, personality, influencer, entrepreneur, Kim’s sister. She wears a lot of hats — it’s kind of hard to Keep Up.

La Mamounia: A luxury hotel in Marrakesh, Morocco, with riad rates at around $8,500 a night. While the gardens date back to the 12th century, the estate was given to Moroccan prince Al Mamoun as a wedding gift by his father in the 18th century. It has views of the Atlas Mountains to the north and Koutoubia Mosque, the largest mosque in Marrakesh, to the east. Former UK prime minister Winston Churchill, former U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, former South African president Nelson Mandela and former fake German heiress Anna Delvey are among the hotel’s many notable guests. 

Jardin Majorelle: A two-and-a-half acre botanical garden located in Marrakesh, which was purchased by fashion designers Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé in the 1980s. The garden was created by artist Jacques Majorelle in 1923, while the on-site Cubist villa was designed by French architect Paul Sinoir in the 1930s.

Bab Agnaou: One of the most famous gates in Marrakesh, which was constructed in the 12th century and now serves as a very popular Instagram spot. (Not to be confused with baba ghanoush, as Rachel did in Inventing Anna.)

Marrakesh: Fourth largest city in Morocco and one of Chrissy Teigen’s favorite vacation destinations.

Tripadvisor: A travel site where users can rate and review hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions or simply find the best slice of pizza within walking distance of their couch.

Zellige tile: Glazed terra-cotta tiles that commonly appear in intricate patterns and bold colors in Moroccan riads.

Bergé-Saint Laurent Foundation: Founded by fashion designers Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé, this foundation is dedicated to tracing the history and preserving the legacy of all things YSL.

Episode 7

Lizzo: A singer, rapper, songwriter and expert twerking flutist who was just coming into the public eye when the Inventing Anna story broke. 

Nancy Jo Sales: This New York Times–bestselling author has bylines in Vanity Fair, New York, Harper’s Bazaar and more, but might be best known for her 2011 Vanity Fair article “The Suspects Wore Louboutins,” which told the story of a group of teenage scammers who broke into celebrities’ houses. In 2013, Sofia Coppola adapted the article into a movie called The Bling Ring. Unclear if anyone in The Bling Ring knew Anna Delvey, but we bet Nancy Jo Sales and Vivian Kent would have had an interesting time comparing reporters’ notes. 

Glastonbury: A five-day music and arts festival in Somerset, England, that almost always seems to be muddy. 

The Mercer: A landmark luxury hotel in SoHo where rooms currently cost approximately $700 per night. 

Alec Baldwin: A tall actor with a complicated personal history; no wonder Anna thinks he’s one of her lawyer’s former clients.

Tribeca: A neighborhood in lower Manhattan. Its name stands for “Triangle Below Canal,” and it is sometimes spelled as TriBeCa. Of course, anyone who does that probably also calls Sixth Avenue the Avenue of the Americas.

Columbus Circle: A hellishly crowded traffic circle at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Central Park South, Central Park West and the southwest corner of Central Park. It’s pretty there, though. Big buildings.

Episode 8

That Theranos Girl: None other than Elizabeth Holmes, a biotech entrepreneur known for her deep voice, love of black turtlenecks and defrauding investors via her blood testing startup. 

Henry Kissinger: Secretary of state to the White House’s favorite scammer, Richard Nixon. 

Michael Cera: An actor best known for his portrayals of awkward teenage boys, from Superbad to Arrested Development. 

Chateau Marmont: A legendary luxury hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, historically frequented by the likes of Jean Harlow, Clark Gable and James Dean, currently attracts people like Gwyneth Paltrow, Jameela Jamil and Justin Theroux. 

Cedars-Sinai: An 886-bed nonprofit hospital in Los Angeles, founded in 1902, and kind of, like, the hospital to go to if you’re sick in LA.

Eschweiler: A German municipality, located on the Inde River. 

1996 Chateau Petrus: A rare and intense wine from Pomerol in the Bordeaux region of France. Bottles are increasingly difficult to find, and sell for thousands and thousands of dollars. 

Claire Danes: A Manhattan actor best known for her roles in My So-Called Life and Homeland.

Crime and Punishment and Dostoevsky: A deeply depressing Russian novel and its deeply depressing author. 

Vogue, Vogue Deutsch, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar: Marquee fashion and lifestyle magazines, titans of the glossy era. 

Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit: The eponymous magazine’s annual multi-day event that brings together influential figures in tech, media, business, politics and the arts. 

Spago: Wolfgang Puck’s flagship restaurant, which was the place to eat in Los Angeles in the ’80s and ’90s, and popularized a specific type of Californian cuisine, perhaps best embodied by Puck’s smoked salmon pizza. 

Rasputin’s Penis: After his grisly death in 1916 at the hands of Russian nobility, mystic and self-proclaimed holy man Grigori Rasputin’s penis was allegedly preserved in a pickle jar, which is now on display at the Museum of Erotica in St. Petersburg. It’s absurdly large, and legend says that after Rasputin was dismembered, the penis traveled to Paris to be used in cult rituals. That said, many modern Rasputin scholars agree that it’s probably just a cow’s penis.

Episode 9

HBIC: Anna’s desired courtroom aesthetic: Head Bitch in Charge. 

“Mildred Pierce Meets Lolita”: Anna’s other desired courtroom fashion aesthetic, referring to Joan Crawford’s titular character and the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, respectively. 

DVF: Diane von Fürstenberg, the Belgian fashion designer known for perfecting and popularizing the wrap dress. 

Alexander McQueen: Luxury British fashion label founded by the late Lee Alexander McQueen, known for his groundbreaking silhouettes and provocative runway shows. 

Frank Sinatra, Paramount Theater, Times Square, Ol’ Blue Eyes: Anna’s lawyer Todd mentions all these things in his opening statement at her trial, evoking the screaming, fainting women who showed up for Frank Sinatra’s performance in Times Square in 1944, and showing just how real the cult of celebrity actually is. 

Rihanna: We know you know who she is — she’s just perfect, so we included her anyway. 

Cup Noodles: A paragon of the affordable, high-sodium snack community, for 50 years and counting.

West Village: A neighborhood in Manhattan full of charming apartments and expensive restaurants (the kind that are actually worth it). 

Kenyon College: A teeny-tiny liberal arts college located in Gambier, Ohio. 

Mount Fucking Olympus: The highest mountain in Greece. In Greek mythology, Olympus is home to all the gods — in Inventing Anna, it’s the place Todd uses to semi-shade his wife, who grew up extremely wealthy.

12 Angry Men: A 1957 film that tells the story of a frustrated jury forced to reconsider evidence in a murder trial when one of the jurors refuses to agree with the rest. 

Jones Beach: A 6.5-mile white sand beach in Long Island, and according to Inventing Anna, a place where basic people go to read. It’s basically the opposite of the Hamptons.

Bedford Hills: A quaint hamlet in Westchester County, New York, that just so happens to house a women’s correctional facility. Other notable area residents include Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively and Martha Stewart.

By: Jamie Beckman, Olivia Harrison, and Amanda Richards