Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer A Vanity Fair staffer who is portrayed in the Netflix show “Inventing Anna” filed a lawsuit on Monday, claiming she was falsely depicted in the series as “unethical,” “greedy,” “snobbish” and “disloyal.” Rachel Williams was a friend of Anna Sorokin, the convicted con artist at the center of the show.
Williams was defrauded out of $62,000 and wrote a Vanity Fair article and a book about the experience. The Netflix series was adapted from a New York magazine article about Sorokin.
Williams has previously detailed her misgivings with the show, which she argues let Sorokin off too easily. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Delaware on Monday, also charges that the show includes 16 separate sets of defamatory statements about Williams.
The show portrays Williams as mooching off of Sorokin, abandoning her in Morocco, hiding her own role in facilitating Sorokin’s arrest and other “contemptible” conduct, the suit alleges.
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