Why did Rachel DeLoache Williams file a lawsuit against Netflix’s Inventing Anna series?
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NICK ROGERS
While Netflix’s Inventing Anna immediately acquired cult viewership and prominence, Rachel DeLoache Williams, a.k.a. Anna’s real friend, was not satisfied. On Monday, 29th August 2022, the previous Vanity Fair employee and friend of Anna Sorokin, reportedly filed defamation against the streaming monster over her depiction in the series. As per Rachel DeLoache Williams, Netflix gave fictitious names to many characters in the series yet didn’t do likewise for Rachel DeLoache Williams and her protection. They used her real name and personal details, while likewise casting an entertainer that looked like her in numerous ways.
Rachel DeLoache Williams, a previous Vanity Fair photograph editor, published an article about her experience with Anna Sorokin as well as a book called ‘My Friend Anna,’ selling the right to HBO. Netflix’s rendition of the story is based on a May 2018 New York magazine article all things considered, and the network paid Anna Sorokin for the rights to her story, as indicated by The Hollywood Reporter.
Who Is Rachel DeLoache Williams?
Rachel DeLoache Williams is an American author, photographer and editor. Rachel DeLoache Williams previously worked as a Vanity Fair photo editor and maker and rose to noticeable quality as a previous friend of Anna Sorokin, a con artist who claimed to be a German heiress and scammed Rachel DeLoache Williams out of $62,000. Following the scam, she detailed Anna Sorokin to the New York City Police Department and the New York County District Attorney, which helped police in finding and capturing Anna Sorokin in Los Angeles.
She additionally testified against her in court. Rachel DeLoache Williams later composed an article about her encounters with Anna Sorokin for Vanity Fair in 2018, and she has since written for Time and Air Mail, as well as written the book My Friend Anna: The True Story of New York City’s Fake Heiress. Rachel DeLoache Williams was likewise among the real individuals portrayed in the real-life show about ‘fake heiress’ Anna Delvey, otherwise known as Anna Sorokin in Netflix’s Inventing Anna.
Why Did Rachel file a lawsuit against Netflix’s Inventing Anna series?
Streaming Giant Netflix went with a conscious choice for dramatic purposes to show Rachel doing or expressing things in the series which depict her as a greedy, snobbish, unfaithful, unscrupulous, weak, manipulative and sharp individual, Rachel’s lawyers wrote in the suit, filed in Delaware federal court on Monday. The suit claims criticism and misleading light intrusion of privacy and requests actual and assumed harms, as well as punitive damages, however, don’t request a particular sum. It additionally demands a directive so Netflix doesn’t make any defamatory statements and the removal of the statements from the Inventing Anna series.
The suit lists numerous occurrences in which she is dishonestly depicted, remembering key scenes for which she soaks up Anna Sorokin and afterwards leaves her in Morocco. In reality, she never did or expressed those things, the suit proceeds. Because of Netflix’s false depiction of her as a vile and despicable individual, Williams was exposed to a deluge of online abuse (and) negative in-person interactions. The catastrophic damage to Williams’ standing was avoidable and the makers of the Netflix show might have developed an imaginary person to give an antagonist, Rachel lawyers argue. The defamatory statements in the series were made by Netflix with actual malice, characterized as information on a lie or crazy negligence for truth or deception, the suit claims.
