'Scandal' alum Katie Lowes plays Rachel DeLoache Williams in Netflix's 'Inventing Anna.' Nicole Rivelli-Netflix But while her relationship with Anna is her greatest regret, the woman she becomes because of Anna may be Anna’s greatest creation.” I immediately clicked the link.īecause I was not involved with the show, I learned at the same time as the rest of the world that it would feature Katie Lowes as a character named “Rachel,” described by Netflix in the following terms: “A natural-born follower whose blind worship of Anna almost destroys her job, her credit, and her life. I was walking home from dinner one night when a friend sent me a link to an article about Inventing Anna, a Netflix miniseries created and produced by Shonda Rhimes, based on the New York article, “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People” by Jessica Pressler. The sense of closure I felt after publishing My Friend Anna in July of 2019 lasted until that October. But I am proud to have overcome the ordeal well enough for such a question to seem reasonable. 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.īecause I became an author, I’m asked on occasion whether I’m grateful for what happened between Anna and me. It wasn’t until I was contacted by a reporter from New York magazine that I realized my involvement with Anna would soon become public, with or without my consent. Before the trial, I began writing to process what had happened, so I could learn from it and hopefully leave it behind. It was destabilizing to have been so wrong about someone I trusted. Here’s How I Helped Bring the Fake Heiress to Justice Read More: Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin Was My Friend. At her trial, Anna was found guilty of swindling more than $200,000 from hotels, banks and other institutions she was found not guilty of stealing from me. That debt was well over what I made in a year. I later testified at her trial, describing the events that left me with more than $60,000 in credit card debt after an “all-expenses-paid” trip to Morocco with Anna and two others. More than four years have passed since I helped the police set up a sting operation to arrest my former friend, the conwoman whom I knew as Anna Delvey. ”Īnna said it herself on Instagram a few weeks later: “I’m nothing but consistent.” So it’s me like getting all this stuff from Sephora, me opening a bank account as soon as I get permission from my parole officer. “I just got out of prison, like two days ago. “I’m just kind of filming everything I’m doing right now and I’m going to see what to do with it later,” she explained in an interview with Insider. Wasting no time, Anna checked into the swanky NoMad hotel in midtown Manhattan and hired a film crew to follow her around. Just hours after regaining freedom, Anna took to Twitter: Someone from Fortress Investment Group-I need $720m by the end of next week, DM me. She had served three years and three months of her four-to-12-year sentence. 11, 2021, Anna Sorokin-better known to the world as fake heiress “Anna Delvey”-was released from prison.
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Anna Sorokin sits at the defense table during jury deliberations in her trial at New York State Supreme Court, April 25, 2019.Īnna Sorokin sits at the defense table during jury deliberations in her trial at the New York State Supreme Court, April 25, 2019.