Sorokin remains in ICE custody awaiting deportation back to Germany, though she appealed to stay in the United States.Īccording to her website, Williams was laid off from Vanity Fair in 2019, citing “industry-wide cutbacks” but continues to work as a freelance photographer, producer, and creative consultant. I think this is true of the character Shonda wrote and what Shonda needed the character to be for the show.” Lowes described the character as “young, naïve, and a privileged life,” but said, “I don’t think this is necessarily true of Rachel Williams in real life. Katie Lowes, the actress who portrayed Williams in “Inventing Anna” reportedly acknowledged that the depiction of Williams on-screen may have been less than accurate, according to Vulture. Vanity Fair photo editor Rachel DeLoache Williams’s new friend Anna Delvey, a self-proclaimed German heiress, was worldly and ambitious. Rufus-Isaacs also cited the HuffPost, which wrote the series “inexplicably vilifies Rachel.” In the recent filing, Rufus-Isaacs claims the series prompted many hate-filled comments against Williams online, and provided sourcing for articles that support his claims, including the Independent’s “Inventing Anna, Has A Brutal Vendetta Against Rachel DeLoache Williams - Is Netflix Bitter She Sold Her Story To HBO?” Sorokin, who posed as a German heiress while living in New York City from 2013 to 2017 and was convicted of defrauding the city's elites in 2019, followed with a series of Instagram posts, accusing Williams of “stubbornly” refusing to move on from her “contrived trauma, ever brazen and unchecked.” She also slammed the show itself. She accused Sorokin of being a “fraudster” who left her $60,000 in debt stemming from a 2017 trip to Morocco before Williams helped police organize a police sting to take Sorokin down. Rachel DeLoache Williams visits the SiriusXM Studios on Augin New York City.Įarlier this year, Williams wrote an Airmail article in response to “Inventing Anna” titled “ Re-Inventing Anna,” which attempts to differentiate the events depicted in the show from the truth. The abuse she received has been truly awful.” “Instead, her reputation has been devastated because viewers believed that they were watching how the real Rachel behaved. “We don’t challenge Netflix’s right to include a lying, sponging, cowardly snob in their series, but they should have given the character a fictitious name and made sure that no one thought it was Rachel,” Rufus-Isaacs continued. Williams’ lawyer, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, sent a copy of Monday’s 57-page lawsuit to, saying: “We filed the case because Netflix not only included false facts in ‘Inventing Anna’ to make Rachel appear like a horrible person, but also because they used her real name and biographical details for the characters,” said Rufus-Issacs.Īccording to the lawsuit, other real-life persons’ details were fictionalized to protect their true identities. Anna Delvey), says she was portrayed in an unduly negative light, according to court records reviewed by. Rachel DeLoache Williams, who was portrayed by Katie Lowes in this year’s limited series about the rise and fall of Sorokin (a.k.a. Unfortunately, Rachel ended up paying everything after Anna made up a story about her credit card not working.A former friend of convicted scammer Anna Sorokin is suing Netflix over her depiction in “ Inventing Anna,” the streaming giant's scripted drama about Sorokin's life. The TL DR version: Anna and Rachel went on a trip to Morocco that was supposed to be on Anna's dime. ![]() ICYMI, the fake heiress was sent to jail for conning several New Yorkers out of some serious money-as well as various businesses and financial institutions.Īnna first became a public name in 2018 when Rachel DeLoache Williams, who was a photo editor at Vanity Fair, wrote a story for the magazine about her friendship with the fraudster and how it went horribly wrong. ![]() She was given a prison sentence of four to 12 years-but she was released from Rikers after just two years served.Īnna Delvey (real name: Anna Sorokin) is back in the spotlight: Netflix now has a docu-drama based on her life titled Inventing Anna.
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