![]() ![]() The new Netflix series, which was released on Friday (11 February), chronicles the rise. But when you do that, you have to recognize you’re not looking for truth. Journalist Rachel DeLoache Williams has criticised the shocking portrayal of herself in Inventing Anna. “It’s a really convenient narrative people are projecting. “I think that’s a particularly dangerous space,” Williams said. ![]() In an interview with Vanity Fair in February, Williams faulted Netflix and producer Shonda Rhimes for “trying to straddle the divide between fact and fiction.” Inventing Anna became one of the Netflix sensations of the year, dramatising the bizarre true story of con artist Anna Sorokin aka Anna Delvey who tricked New York’s social elite into believing she was a rich German heiress. Anna Sorokin), testified on Wednesday and Thursday about. The suit also cites a New York Post column that faulted the series for portraying Sorokin as a “feminist icon” and Williams as “the Wicked Witch of the West.” Rachel DeLoache Williams, a former Vanity Fair photo editor who wrote a viral article about fake German heiress Anna Delvey (a.k.a. “For a show interested in grey areas, ‘Inventing Anna’ goes out of its way to make us hate Rachel,” the author wrote. The suit references media coverage that called out the portrayal of Williams in “Inventing Anna.” A columnist at The Independent wrote that the show appeared to have a “personal vendetta” against her. But while her relationship with Anna is her greatest regret, the woman she becomes because of Anna may be Anna’s greatest creation. Williams’ article and book were optioned by HBO, but the project stalled and is no longer in development. Her original character description is particularly telling: Rachel is a natural-born follower whose blind worship of Anna almost destroys her job, her credit, and her life. Netflix did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Rachels empathy was weaponized by the fake German heiress, who betrayed her friendship. The attorney said he had filed the “Inventing Anna” suit in Delaware because Netflix is incorporated there and because, “We like Delaware law.” In Delaware, Netflix would not be able to file an anti-SLAPP motion to throw out the case. when she became the target for notorious con-artist Anna Delvey. ![]() Rufus-Isaacs also represents Nona Gaprindashvili, the Georgian chess master who has sued Netflix over a reference to her in the series “The Queen’s Gambit.” If they want to make an unpleasant character, they can’t use a real person’s name unless everything they say is absolutely gospel.” “If you want to base a character on a real person, and you want to make them a baddie, don’t use their real name,” Rufus-Isaacs said in an interview. Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, Williams’ attorney, said that she has suffered tremendous online backlash in the wake of the series. Williams had previously written an essay for AirMail, slamming "Inventing Anna" for "running a con woman's PR." Prior to the Netflix series, she released a book in 2019 based on her experiences with Sorokin called "My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress.The show portrays Williams as mooching off of Sorokin, abandoning her in Morocco, hiding her own role in facilitating Sorokin’s arrest and other “contemptible” conduct, the suit alleges. Rachel DeLoache Williams is a former friend of Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, a German woman convicted of posing as a wealthy heiress to scam banks, hotels and New York socialites. "I think promoting this whole narrative and celebrating a sociopathic, narcissistic, proven criminal is wrong," she said, referring to Sorokin. Williams, a former Vanity Fair editor, previously criticized the show and its positive reception in an interview with the magazine. Williams and Sorokin's friendship (and specifically an ill-fated trip to Morocco that caused a rift between the two, when Sorokin left Williams to pay the entire $62,000 bill herself and never made good on promises to repay her) was depicted in the Netflix series "Inventing Anna," created by Shonda Rhimes. Arts & Culture Anna Delveys Ex-Friend Rachel DeLoache Williams Accuses Netflix of 'Running a Con Womans P.R.' Williams lost 60,000 to the fake German heiress. The interview, released on Friday, took place remotely, as Sorokin has been detained by ICE since her release from prison. Anna Sorokin (aka Anna Delvey) shared why she publicly responded to her former friend Rachel Williams on Instagram during an interview on Julia Fox and Niki Takesh's Forbidden Fruits podcast. One of those friends was Delveys former Vanity Fair photo editor Rachel DeLoache Williams.
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