“Netflix isn’t just putting out a fictional story… and putting money in her pocket.”ĭelvey not only has responded to Williams’ claims, but she has also lashed out at “Red Table Talk” for “having trauma-porn star Rachel ’Karen-in-chief’ on the upcoming trauma and healing episode.” “Take it from someone who knows: This is the art of the con, a shell game that proffers irresistible thrills for low stakes, while a sleight of hand carries out the high-roller business unseen,” Williams wrote in an essay for Air Mail.
Williams, meanwhile, released a memoir documenting her accounts with Delvey and has spoken out against the Netflix series, which stars Julia Garner as Delvey and Katie Lowes as Williams, for “running a con woman’s PR.” She was eventually released from prison in 2021 before being taken back into custody by ICE as she awaits being deported for overstaying her visa. While Delvey was found guilty of larceny in 2019 and was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison, she never had to pay her former friend back. Former Vanity Fair photography editor and star witness Rachel DeLoache Williams testified about her experience with Anna Delvey in court Wednesday and Thursday, telling the jury about her luxurious vacation to Morocco with the fake heiress and the horror of realizing that she was stuck with a 62,000 bill that Delvey had promised to pay. Williams, who was once part of the fraudster’s inner circle, then explains it was that and a “combination of vulnerability coupled with the grandiosity” of Delvey’s lifestyle that initially drew her in and made her want to be friends.ĭelvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, became known as the “fake German heiress” after New York magazine wrote a popular 2018 article revealing how she scammed some of the city’s high society, hotels, restaurants and banks between 20. And one of those victims was Williams, who was stuck with a $60,000 bill after Delvey was unable to produce funds during their trip to Morocco. She adds, “It created what I now see as an artificial feeling of closeness ‘cause I felt like, ‘Oh, she’s confiding in me. Or, I’d ask her about past friendships and she would have an explanation as to why they weren’t very close anymore.” So, I would ask, ‘Do you talk to your parents much?’ And she would have some explanation about them having a business arrangement more than a close relationship. “I don’t know how much of it was true, obviously. I ended up creating more empathy for her because everything had a backstory,” Williams says. “Anna could be sort of hard to read and she was definitely one of a kind. In ET’s exclusive preview of the all-new episode, Williams discloses the trauma she went through and the fallout that happened as a result of their “vacation from hell,” which was a disastrous trip to Morocco where she was convinced by Delvey to pay for much of the expenses.
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Photo: Jordan FisherĪfter “ Inventing Anna“, Shonda Rhimes’ true-crime Netflix series about the life and crimes of convicted fraudster Anna Delvey, made the “fake German heiress” a media sensation once again, one of her former friends and victims, Rachel DeLoache Williams, is speaking out on “ Red Table Talk“. Sky News has contacted Netflix and representatives for Sorokin for comment.Adrienne Banfield-Norris, Rachel Williams, Willow Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith on "Red Table Talk". After meeting through mutual friends, the Russian heiress Anna Delvey and Rachel DeLoache Williams soon became inseparable. The lawsuit seeks a jury trial, as well as unspecified damages and an injunction to have the alleged defamatory material involving Williams edited out of Inventing Anna. Mr Rufus-Isaacs suggested the reason for this was that "she had chosen to play for the other team, ie, HBO".Īccording to Williams' website, HBO and Lena Dunham had optioned her book My Friend Anna, but this option expired and the project is not in development.
Why didn't they do this for her, when they did for so many other characters in the series?" He added: "The devastating damage to her reputation could have been avoided if only Netflix had used a fictitious name and different details. Williams' lawyer, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, told E! News: "The reason why we had to file the case is because Netflix used Rachel's real name and biographical details, and made her out to be a horrible person, which she is not." It's effectively running a conwoman's PR - and putting money in her pocket." In an article written when the show was launched, Williams said: "Netflix isn't just putting out a fictional story. Image: Garner as Delvey in Inventing Anna.
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