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In response to all these comments, Sorokin herself chimed in. The result, she says, is that the wrong conclusions will be made about the story’s particular characters, including herself. In the end, Williams says, the Netflix writers manipulated the real events to fit their own story, one of Sorokin as a product of our attention culture and materialist desires. That’s why I wrote a book-I was drowning in rumination and trying to process what had happened.' That really sends you into a ricochet of memories, looking back trying to look for all the signs you missed. Her entire identity had been a complete sham. Having been betrayed by someone I trusted-and to have been betrayed in a huge way. 'As I’ve said one too many times, this is the hardest thing I’ve gone through-the betrayal as much as the money. On the question of her own book and her own reasons for telling the story, Williams said it was to help her understand what had happened. “I think there is a false narrative with regard to me not having been a strong person before this entire thing,” she told Vanity Fair. Williams’ own depiction in the series, outlined as “a natural-born follower whose blind worship of Anna almost destroys her job, her credit, and her life,” unsettled her.

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Williams said that series’ preface-that the events of the story are true, “except for all the parts that aren’t”-gives the series license to tell half-truths, which Williams says are more dangerous than a lie. Still, for Williams, Netflix’s depiction of Sorokin wasn’t the only egregious narrative choice. She told Vanity Fair Netflix had reached out for option rights, but Williams said 'no' because HBO had them at the time.)

(That project is no longer in development and Williams was given back the option rights. Williams was also reportedly paid $35,000 by HBO for option rights. Netflix reportedly paid Sorokin $320,000 for her life rights in order to produce the story alongside Pressler, a payment that apparently irked Williams, despite the fact that most of the money was spent on restitution, fines, and attorney fees Sorokin reportedly pocketed $22,000.īy comparison, Williams too has profited off the ordeal, selling book rights to Simon & Schuster for a reported $300,000. Williams published her own account of the story, which ran in Vanity Fair in 2018, just a month before Jessica Pressler’s New York Magazine story, the source material for Inventing Anna.

(Sorokin is currently in ICE detention, facing deportation.) Williams criticized the series for portraying Sorokin heroically-as a savvy and inspiring hustler, and not as a convicted felon. You watch the spectacle, but you’re not paying attention to what’s being marketed.” “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,” Williams told Vanity Fair in a recent interview. Rachel Williams, the real-life ex-friend of Anna Delvey/Sorokin, who appears in Netflix’s Inventing Annaas “Rachel” and who was, in fact, swindled for $62,000 by Sorokin on 2017 trip to Marrakech, recently lambasted the Netflix series.

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