Anna Delvey's former friend is suing Netflix over her portrayal in Inventing Anna

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Anna Delvey's former friend Rachel DeLoache Williams is suing Netflix for defamation over her portrayal in ‘Inventing Anna’.

The former Vanity Fair staffer has launched legal action against the streaming service - who brought the story of the scammer socialite and how she fooled New York society into thinking she was a German heiress to life with showrunner Shonda Rhimes - after she alleges they invaded her privacy and defamed her through her depiction on the mini-series that starred Julia Garner and Anna Chlumsky.

The papers read: "This action will show that Netflix made a deliberate decision for dramatic purposes to show Williams doing or saying things in the series which portray her as a greedy, snobbish, disloyal, dishonest, cowardly, manipulative and opportunistic person. ” Rachel’s case argues: “This action is based firmly on statements of fact which are demonstrably false and the attribution of statements that she never made. " The ‘My Friend Anna’ author’s suit mentions that several news outlets - including Yahoo News, The Huffington Post and the New York Post - “commented on Netflix’s hatchet job” of her.

Rachel - who is requesting a trial by jury along with damages, punitive damages among other requests such as cost of suit- claims that "as a result of Netflix’s false portrayal of her as a vile and contemptible person,” she has been “subjected to a torrent of online abuse, negative in-person interactions, and pejorative characterizations in podcasts, etc.