Ask No Questions, Hear No Lies
Anna moved around New York from hotel to hotel, occasionally leaving the country to restart her tourist visa. She didn’t have a permanent address – and again, everyone assumed she was so rich that she didn’t mind throwing away her money instead of investing in property.
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That’s why, when Anna moved into a new boutique Soho hotel at 11 Howard Street, no one thought twice about it. In fact, the hotel didn’t even ask for a credit card – as far as the hotel manager was concerned, she knew so many of the “right” people, there was no doubt she was who she said she was. However, her story about the trust fund back home kept on changing. It was said her father was a diplomate, or an oil executive, or even an entrepreneur in solar panels.