The attorney, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, included a list of 21 people who worked on the show, including both Rhimes and Jessica Pressler, the journalist whose New York Magazine story on Sorokin was used as the basis of the show. On Friday, the attorney for Rachel DeLoache Williams, a one-time friend of Anna Sorokin - the Russian con artist who posed as a German heiress named "Anna Delvey" - wrote in a court filing that she intends "to depose most or all of the individuals who created the Netflix series" because they will have "first-hand knowledge" about how the allegedly defamatory statements were made. It often indicates a user profile.Īn ex-Vanity Fair editor who alleges she was "falsely" portrayed as a "freeloader" and "fair weather friend" on the series "Inventing Anna," is pushing to depose the show's creator, Shonda Rhimes, in her defamation suit against Netflix, according to court papers viewed by Insider. having nothing to really having something.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. In the age of Billy McFarland and Fyre Festival, it's interesting that we have so many people that say they're going to do something and they don't have the means to do it.īut, you know, if she had pulled it off, she would have been a massive deal really. I mean, that's kind of partly the extraordinary thing about the story. She was quite close to actually unlocking this loan. She had designs that she would actually get a loan for this $21-million building. It kind of escalated, this fancy, and she decided she wanted to start her own art foundation, which was going to be a physical space in a sort of beautiful medieval facade building on Park Avenue. I think everyone just sort of presumed she was loaded because of that. At that point, she was kind of famous for tipping very generously everywhere she went, which which is part of her kind of folklore appeal, I think. She was at the kind of top clubs, kind of out and about, quite a lot. She's on trial now. She's accused of stiffing luxury hotels, a friend who went on a lavish trip with her to Morocco and even a bank. But I think the cornerstone of it was the Internet and being able to found an identity for yourself online. That's what was really fascinating about it as a story to fictionalize, is that there's still a level of mystery as to how exactly she did it. And showing off a kind of life mixing with quite a high cachet of people in Paris and in New York. That was really how she facilitated this fake life, really - was harnessing the Internet, really. It's really kind of this kind of monument to a fake life. Yj1AF1u6tg- how did she do it? How did she come to New York City, with virtually nothing, and create this high-flying social life for herself?Īs far as I understand it, there's this Instagram of hers, which is about four or five years ago. Featured in and this show is not to be missed! 13 – 17 March. She was completely unflinching.Īward-winning playwright returns to with brand new show #AnnaX, inspired by the life of Anna Delvey. She was referring to her attempted grand larceny. She broadly kind of said: If I had the chance I would do it again and I do it more. The thing that really drew me to her was her kind of apparent defiance about what she'd been involved in. The first thing I heard about Anna Sorokin was some quotes when she was awaiting trial in Rikers , about a year ago. What is it about Anna Sorokin that made you want to write a play out of your story? His play, Anna X, just finished a run in London.Īs It Happens guest host Megan Williams spoke to Charlton about what compelled him to take Sorokin's story to the stage. It's fascinated big-name producers Shonda Rhimes and Lena Dunham - who are both creating shows out of the story. It was splashed on the pages of Vanity Fair and New York Magazine. Her real name is Anna Sorokin and she stands accused of scamming people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. She told people she was a German heiress working on opening a massive arts space.īut prosecutors told a court in New York this week that she was, in fact, penniless. It didn't take long after Anna Delvey landed in Manhattan for people to take notice.
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