In a statement to Vanity Fair, Williams’s lawyer, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, said this was a key factor in the defamation suit. Netflix gave fictitious names and biographical details to “Sorokin’s business lawyer, her boyfriend, and the wealthy socialite and her fashion designer acolyte,” but not the character based on Williams. The complaint notes that Williams is one of the major characters in the Delvey saga whose full name, employer, alma mater, and home neighborhood remain the same in the series as in real life. Vanity Fair has reached out to Netflix for comment.) (Rhimes and Shondaland aren’t named as defendants in the complaint. Williams filed a defamation suit against Netflix on Monday in a Delaware federal court, claiming that the streamer “made a deliberate decision for dramatic purposes” to “portray her as a greedy, snobbish, disloyal, dishonest, cowardly, manipulative and opportunistic person.” The suit argues that the show, which is up for three Emmys including outstanding limited series, depicts Williams as an opportunistic hanger-on who bums off Sorokin, leaves her in Morocco, and sells her out to authorities. (Williams was played by Katie Lowes in the Shonda Rhimes–produced scammer series.) Except for all the parts that are totally made up.” Rachel Williams-a former Vanity Fair staffer who was scammed out of around $62,000 by Anna Sorokin, then known as Anna Delvey-says that acknowledgment “does nothing to protect” her from the “tidal wave of vitriolic messages” she’s received since the show’s “negative portrayal” of her. N etflix’s Inventing Anna opens with a playful disclaimer: “This whole story is completely true.
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