You watch the spectacle, but you’re not paying attention to what’s being marketed.”Įven before watching a moment of the series, Williams had cause for alarm when she read the Netflix description, which called her character “a natural-born follower whose blind worship of Anna almost destroys her job, her credit, and her life.” The company added, “But while her relationship with Anna is her greatest regret, the woman she becomes because of Anna may be Anna’s greatest creation.” “Having had a front-row seat to for far too long, I’ve studied the way a con works more than anybody needs to.

“I think promoting this whole narrative and celebrating a sociopathic, narcissistic, proven criminal is wrong,” she tells Vanity Fair. Now that Williams (portrayed by Scandal star Katie Lowes in the series) has watched some of the show, she can’t believe what she’s seeing. Although Williams wrote the book My Friend Anna about her experience, Netflix reportedly saw fit to pay Sorokin $320,000 for her life story.

Sorokin was acquitted of that offense-and American Express let Williams off the hook for the charge-but she was convicted on eight other counts, including second-degree grand larceny, theft of services, and first-degree attempted grand larceny. Anna Delvey), until the conwoman tried to steal $62,000 from Williams for a Moroccan getaway. Rachel Williams is the former Vanity Fair editor who was besties with Sorokin (A.K.A. While the Netflix scammer drama Inventing Anna is challenging the network’s other huckster adventure, The Tinder Swindler, for the title of most popular series, one of Anna Sorokin’s real-life victims says the show is making the convicted “SoHo Grifter” into a hero, while she gets played for a sucker all over again.

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