Anna Delvey's Former Friend Rachel Williams Sues Netflix Over Inventing Anna Depiction

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Rachel Williams, 1 of the women who was scammed retired of wealth by fake heiress Anna Delvey, is acceptable to person her time successful court.

According to tribunal documents obtained by E! News, Williams is suing Netflix for mendacious airy penetration of privateness and defamation for the mode they depicted her successful the limited series Inventing Anna, which premiered connected the streaming giant on Feb. 11.

The complaint, which was filed connected Aug. 29, details scenes from the Shonda Rhimes-created series that Williams alleges represent her successful an inaccurate manner, including depicting her as "a greedy, snobbish, disloyal, dishonest, cowardly, manipulative and opportunistic person."

The suit besides alleges that Williams was not "sponging off" Delvey, besides known as Anna Sorokin, by "accepting gifts of costly clothes, jewelry and accessories" oregon "allowing her to wage for each of their drinks, meals, manicures and saunas."

Williams besides cited scenes from the bid successful which her quality (played by Katie Lowes) abandoned Delvey (Julia Garner) during a travel to Morocco while she was "alone and successful trouble" as untrue. Williams further denied that she was "lying to friends by concealing that she helped the constabulary arrest" as depicted successful the series.

"In reality, she ne'er did oregon said those things," the suit reads. "Thus, this enactment is based firmly connected statements of information which are demonstrably mendacious and the attribution of statements that she ne'er made."

Due to the popularity of Inventing Anna, Williams said successful the ailment that she was "the taxable of thousands of specified abusive messages" from radical online. 

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In a connection to E! News, Williams' attorney, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, said, "The crushed wherefore we had to record the lawsuit is due to the fact that Netflix utilized Rachel's existent sanction and biographical details, and made her retired to beryllium a horrible person, which she is not."

Rufus-Isaacs added, "The devastating damage to her reputation could person been avoided if lone Netflix had utilized a fictitious sanction and antithetic details. Why didn't they bash this for her, erstwhile they did for truthful galore different characters successful the Series? Perhaps the crushed was that she had chosen to play for the different team, i.e., HBO."

The suit seeks a assemblage trial, arsenic good arsenic unspecified damages and an injunction to person the alleged defamatory worldly involving Williams edited retired of Inventing Anna.

E! News has reached retired to Netflix and Delvey's lawyer but has not heard back.

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