

Written by Rachel DeLoache Williams, the Vanity Fair photography editor who believed Anna's lies before helping the police to track her down (fittingly, deciphering Anna's location using Instagram), this is Catch Me If You Can with Instagram filters. The new Netflix series, which was released on Friday (11 February), chronicles the rise and fall of scammer Anna Delvey (aka Anna Sorokin) who is played by Ozark star Julia Garner. This is the incredible story of how Anna Sorokin conned the high-rollers of the NYC social scene and convinced her close friend of an entirely concocted fantasy, the product of falsified bank documents, bad cheques and carefully edited online photos. Journalist Rachel DeLoache Williams has criticised the shocking portrayal of herself inInventing Anna. But after Anna's debit card was declined in a Moroccan medina whilst on holiday in a five-star luxury resort, Rachel began to suspect that her increasingly mysterious friend was not all she seemed. Theirs was an intoxicating world of endless excess: high dining, personal trainer sessions, a luxury holiday. After meeting through mutual friends, the 'Russian heiress' Anna Delvey and Rachel DeLoache Williams soon became inseparable.

11, 2021, Anna Sorokinbetter known to the world as fake heiress Anna Delvey was. Rachel DeLoache Williams was a friend of fake heiress Anna Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin. This is the true story of Anna Delvey (real name Anna Sorokin), the fake heiress whose dizzying deceit and elaborate con-artistry deceived the Soho hipster scene before her ruse was finally and dramatically exposed. By Rachel DeLoache Williams Febru11:39 AM EST A lmost exactly one year ago, on Feb. ABC News Rachel DeLoache Williams speaks with ABC News. With breathless pacing and in-depth reporting from the person who experienced it firsthand, My Friend Anna is an unforgettable true story of “glamour, greed, lust for power” ( The New York Times), and female friendship.How does it feel to be betrayed by your closest friend? A close friend who turns out to be the most prolific grifter in New York City. Mortified, Rachel contacted the district attorney, and in a stunning turn of events, found herself helping to bring down one of the city’s most notorious con artists. As seen in Inventing Anna, Williams paid 62,000 on her company credit card during a trip she took with Delvey to Marrakech after all of Delveys cards were declined. Rachel learned that Anna had left a trail of deceit-and unpaid bills-wherever she’d been.

Anna swore she would reimburse Rachel the moment they returned to New York.īack in Manhattan, the repayment never materialized, and a shocking pattern of deception emerged. Before Rachel knew it, more than $62,000 had been charged to her credit cards. Anna asked Rachel to begin fronting costs-first for flights, then meals and shopping, and, finally, for their $7,500-per-night private villa. But when Anna’s credit cards mysteriously stopped working, the dream vacation quickly took a dark turn. When Anna proposed an all-expenses-paid trip to Marrakech at the five-star La Mamounia hotel, Rachel jumped at the chance.

She was also generous-picking up the tab for lavish dinners at Le Coucou, infrared sauna sessions at HigherDOSE, drinks at the 11 Howard Library bar, and regular workout sessions with a celebrity personal trainer. Rachel DeLoache Williams’s new friend Anna Delvey, a self-proclaimed German heiress, was worldly and ambitious. She was a friend of fake heiress Anna Delvey, whose real name is Anna.
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Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me if You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as an heiress in New York City-as told by the former Vanity Fair photo editor who got seduced by her friendship and then scammed out of more than $62,000. Rachel DeLoache Williams is a freelance photographer today who often shares photos of her travels on Instagram. In 2016, Rachel DeLoache Williams, then a 28-year-old photo editor at Vanity Fair, struck up a friendship with Anna Delvey, a woman claiming to be a German heiress but soon known to the. Convicted scammer Anna Delvey who’s real name is Anna Sorokin has accused writer Rachel DeLoache Williams of blatant hypocrisy after Williams described a new Netflix series about the rise and.
