![]() “She took on traditionally male dominated power structures when it came to financial scamming. “Anna is a fascinating character for better for worse, especially as a young woman,” Williams tells us. ![]() ![]() Eventually, she goes to the police and her friend’s story unravels. Sorokin assures her friend that she will pay her back, but the debt is never repaid. Following an extravagant trip together to Marrakesh in May 2017, Williams was left with an astounding $62,000 bill which she divides across two credit cards. After Williams was wooed by Sorokin for months though expensive dinners, nights out and designer shopping trips, their friendship came to a dramatic head. She also scammed her best friend, Rachel Deloache Williams, a former Vanity Fair picture researcher. Sorokin’s victims weren’t only high-end hotels and banks. HBO and Netflix both bought the rights, and Sorokin, who is still curating her image, wanted Margot Robbie to play her (as we now know, that role went to Emmy-winning Ozark actress Julia Garner). It had all the trappings of a great story – greed, glamour, deceit and money. The case immediately attracted international media attention. Julia Garner as Anna Delvey in Netflix’s ’Inventing Anna’ AARON EPSTEIN/NETFLIX All this created a credible-looking public image that convinced people that she was who she claimed to be. Her goal was to set up a new version of Soho House, securing herself a place in the arts scene by going to the right restaurants and clubs and Instagramming herself at the most notable new openings. She defrauded hotels, restaurants, a private jet operator and banks out of more than $200,000 while living an implausibly lavish lifestyle in New York, telling friends and prospective scam victims that she was a wealthy German heiress. In May 2019, Delvey, real name Sorokin, was sentenced to between four and 12 years in prison for grand larceny. On the other hand, she is the embodiment of the millennial stereotype, entitled and obsessed with the seemingly perfect lifestyles seen on Instagram. On one hand, she has been applauded as an antihero – a modern, female version of Robin Hood who ripped off the rich and faceless capitalist organisations. Sounds like Sorokin is about to have more inspiration for her courtroom art.The story of Anna Delvey, the enigmatic con artist who deceived New York’s elite, has divided opinion. ![]() I don’t think this is necessarily true of Rachel Williams in real life I think this is true of the character Shonda wrote and what Shonda needed the character to be for the show.” She also said she had not met Williams personally. Katie Lowes, the actress who plays Williams in the series, told Vulture that her version of Williams is, “young, naïve, and had a privileged life. Why didn’t they do this for her, when they did for so many other characters in the Series? Perhaps the reason was that she had chosen to play for the other team, i.e., HBO.” Yes, the lawsuit claims that Netflix might have done Williams so dirty in the series because she sold her story rights to a competing company. “The devastating damage to her reputation could have been avoided if only Netflix had used a fictitious name and different details. “The reason why we have had to file this lawsuit is because Netflix used Rachel’s real name and biographical details, and made her out to be a horrible person, which she is not,” says Williams’s attorney, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs. Her case argues “that Netflix made a deliberate decision for dramatic purposes to show Williams doing or saying things in the Series which portray her as a greedy, snobbish, disloyal, dishonest, cowardly, manipulative and opportunistic person.” In addition to finding Inventing Anna inaccurate to her lived experience, Williams also thinks the show’s depiction of her was just plain rude to a legal degree. Williams published an article in 2018 about her time with Sorokin, and apparently the series got the details of their friendship all wrong: “Williams did not stop being friends with Sorokin because Sorokin was having problems in Morocco, but rather because she subsequently discovered on her return to New York that Sorokin was a liar and a con artist,” reads a statement from Williams’s lawyer in Delaware state court, per The Hollywood Reporter. Former Vanity Fair photo editor Rachel DeLoache Williams sued Netflix on Monday, August 29, for a defamatory depiction of her on Inventing Anna. Germany’s official scambassador to New York, Anna Sorokin/Anna Delvey, is back in the news cycle again, but this time she’s not the one in trouble. If Katie Lowes played me, I’d be flattered.
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