I never really got the interest in her case. I read the original New York Magazine story about her a couple of times to see what I’m missing, and while it’s well written, I still can’t figure it out. The stakes were low, the "haul" was nothing to write home about, and Delvey herself seemed pretty lame, like someone who watched The Bling Ring or Gossip Girl one too many times and decided to cosplay as one of the characters, punctuating every other sentence with the word “bitch” to make up for a void of personality.
In general, one of the marks of a "star" - be it a movie actor, pop singer, or convicted felon - is their character: Do they have a unique look? Sound? Personality? Compared to pop culture’s great swindlers, Delvey never really seemed like her own character as much as she was trying to play someone else’s. Her post-jail social media antics seem to echo that try-hardness.
There was another "scammer" years ago that I thought was much more interesting and I wish got even a fraction of the attention Delvey got - Lisette Lee, a faux-heiress who smuggled thousands of pounds of pot between L.A. and Ohio. There was a great Rolling Stone story about it back in 2012 and I remember MTV featuring it as an episode of one of those True Life-type shows. I never got why her story didn’t get adapted into anything, meanwhile the boring Delvey stuff already has a dozen books, documentaries, and TV shows. I guess the New York media bubble rules all.