Anna Delvey Hasn’t Spoken to Rachel DeLoache Williams Post-Lawsuit: ‘I Frankly Don’t Care’
usmagazine.comAll in the past. Anna Delvey isn’t still friends with Rachel DeLoache Williams — and she’s not interested in her lawsuit over Inventing Anna.“I didn’t watch the show, but I think it’s a very well-founded, very well-sourced portrayal,” the Russia native, 31, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, October 25. “I frankly don’t care.”Earlier this year, Williams, 34, sued Netflix over her depiction in Inventing Anna, which starred Julia Garner as Delvey. “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,” the former Vanity Fair photo editor, who was played by Katie Lowes, alleged in her lawsuit.In 2019, Williams published My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress, in which she detailed her friendship with Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin.
The photographer accused her former pal of conning her out of $62,000, reported her to the authorities and later testified against her in court.Delvey, for her part, said she “absolutely” hasn’t spoken to Williams since before she was incarcerated.
The former Purple intern was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison in April 2019 after she was convicted of grand larceny, larceny in the second degree and theft of services.
After her February 2021 release, she spent 18 months in an immigration detention facility for overstaying her visa.Now on house arrest in New York City, Delvey said that she’s now focused on the future. “I am working on a podcast, a book,” she told Us, adding that her artwork is available for sale at Founders Art Club. “I’m going to see what I’m going to do with my art and I have better
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