And in a story in which con artist Anna Delvey swindled banks and a bunch of rich people, I felt worst for the little guy, a woman she was friends with named Rachel DeLoache Williams who ended up on the hook for 62,000 in hotel. I’d read the article upon which the series was based when it was published. Unfortunately, Rachel ended up paying everything after Anna made up a story about her credit card not working. Netflix 's true crime limited series Inventing Anna, about con artist Anna Sorokin who was also known as Anna Delvey has landed the streaming service in a whole new legal battle. Inventing Anna was pretty popular when it aired on Netflix earlier this year. The same year, journalist Jessica Pressler wrote an article for New York about Sorokins life as a socialite Netflix paid Sorokin 320,000 for the rights to her story and developed it into the 2022 miniseries Inventing Anna. The TL DR version: Anna and Rachel went on a trip to Morocco that was supposed to be on Anna's dime. She expanded on the story in her 2019 book My Friend Anna. While Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, was found guilty of larceny in 2019 and was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison, one of her former friends is lashing out against the Netflix series. 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. The Russia-born fraudster swindled an estimated $275,000 from hotels, friends, and even financial institutions.Rachel, who was a photo editor for the magazine, was a friend of Anna's before she too was conned out of a cool $62,000-a sum that was more than what she made in a year.Anna Delvey (real name: Anna Sorokin) made the news after a 2018 Vanity Fair piece written by Rachel DeLoache Williams extensively detailed how Delvey conned wealthy New Yorkers out of their money.
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