I think it was very difficult for her to realize that this person wasn’t who she thought she was,” Shane told ET. “Rachel really suffered through this experience. But this Netflix description felt shocking.” She adds that by selling the rights of her story to HBO, “I understood that stepping into the spotlight came with certain risks - I would only have so much control over how I was portrayed. “So, I decided to turn my thoughts into an article for my then-employer, Vanity Fair, and later a book, My Friend Anna, hoping my story would serve as a cautionary tale.” “It was destabilizing to have been so wrong about someone I trusted,” Williams writes in another essay for Time. She also appeared on-camera in the 2021 HBO Max docuseries Generation Hustle.ĭespite having profited off the situation, which Generation Hustle director Martha Shane said has become a larger “Anna Delvey cottage industry” of people cashing in, Williams was in debt and traumatized by what happened to her. The former Vanity Fair employee sold her story to the magazine and wrote the 2018 article, “ As an Added Bonus, She Paid for Everything.” She later published a memoir, My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress, which was optioned by HBO and Lena Dunham. “Netflix provided Anna with so much cash that, even after some victims recouped their losses (thanks to a judge’s invocation of the ‘Son of Sam’ law), she finished her prison sentence with capital leftover - seemingly enough to burn on Balenciaga and then some,” Williams claims.ĭelvey, however, was not forced to pay Williams back for the Morocco trip. According to Insider, “Netflix paid Anna Sorokin $320,000 for the rights to adapt her life story into a TV series.” The outlet also revealed that “Sorokin has used $199,000 of the money to pay restitution to the banks, plus another $24,000 to settle state fines.” See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Williams also goes after the streaming service for paying Delvey for the rights to her story before her trial even began. Between Anna Delvey, Fyre Festival’s Billy McFarland (Anna even tried to scam Billy) and Elizabeth Holmes, whose start-up app duped the high and mighty of Silicon Valley, 2019 seems to have be the year of the scammer.Hope you enjoy this interview with Rachel and please do leave a rating or review if you did!Check out the book here: This book has been called Catch Me If You Can meets Gossip Girl with Instagram filters. This is Rachel's story who is still dealing with the consequences of being so betrayed.The pair met through mutual friends, and became inseparable. But after Anna’s debit card was declined in a Morocco whilst on holiday in a five-star luxury resort, Rachel began to suspect that her increasingly mysterious friend was not all she seemed. This book is the true story of Anna Delvey through her friend Rachel's eyes, someone you might have read about in the news, the fake heiress whose deceit and elaborate con-artistry deceived the Soho New York scene before her lies were dramatically exposed. This is a replay episode! My guest today is Rachel DeLoache Williams, Vanity Fair photography editor and now author of My Friend Anna: The True Story Of The Fake Heiress Of New York City (all about her relationship with NYC scammer Anna Delvey. One of TIME magazine's must-read books of 2019.
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