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Since the release of Netflix’s Inventing Anna, the true story of how ‘fake heiress’ Anna Delvey (real name Anna Sorokin) tricked the rich and famous of New York City, Delvey’s name has been everywhere. Those who already knew her infamous tale, as told in New York Magazine in 2018, eagerly consumed the mini-series glad to have extra insights into Delvey’s world through Julia Garner’s brilliant acting. Those who didn’t know about Delvey were quickly hooked, making the show trend at number one and the original 2018 expose the site’s top-trending article again, three years later.
Since her release from jail in February 2021, Delvey has returned to Instagram, using the platform – and her 532k and growing following – to take the narrative into her own hands. She’s shared press clippings about herself and even shared a promo for the show.
Since Inventing Anna’s release, another person who featured heavily has been taking the narrative into their own hands too: Delvey’s former friend Vanity Fair journalist Rachel De Louche Williams. Out of everyone in the series, De Louche Williams is portrayed the worst, shown as someone who used Delvey for her money and then sold her out (she wrote an article and later book about Delvey and their friendship, which she justifies as retribution for Delvey allegedly scamming her out of $60,000 USD during a trip to Marrakesh, Morocco in 2017).
Now, De Louche Williams has penned articles about the way she’s depicted in the show, saying it paints her in an unfair light and glamorises crime. But Delvey thinks different.
“I’ve been silent about this for years,” Delvey wrote on her Instagram story overnight, “However, over [the] past two weeks watching Rachel stubbornly refuse to move on from her contrived trauma, ever brazen and unchecked, while going on every show that will have her, I thought- now I have to. And if I have to I will.”
“During her numerous public cries for attention claiming I ‘ruined’ her life, relentless Rachel Deloache Williams conveniently forgets to mention the curious period of time during summer of ’18 when she herself along with her newly acquired literary agent were repeatedly harassing my lawyer Todd (both via email and phone) to get me to agree to write a book TOGETHER with Rachel,” Delvey continued. “And the best part is – this time around, I’ve got all the receipts :)”
“I know – sounds incredible, considering Rachel’s recent media crusade during which she accuses everyone who isn’t aligned with her vision of self as a wronged martyr starved for justice of “glorifying crime” and “giving platform to a con,”’ she wrote. “Can anyone please enlighten us whether she’s done anything at all over past three years other than talking and writing about me, reading and dissecting my interviews, taking angry notes, looking for things to get outraged about? She even quotes posts I’ve deleted after 15 mins. Find yourself someone who’s dedicated to you the way Rachel is dedicated to my Twitter :)”
“Don’t you just love the irony of watching Rachel Deloache Williams constantly adjust her (very) flexible moral standards depending on the protective amount of $ she stands to profit based on the latest twists in the tale of her ‘unfortunate’ association with me?’ Delvey continued. “BEFORE she epically embarrassed herself during my trial and before Netflix forever celebrated her (very accurate) total Karen image, her moral compass deemed it acceptable to suggest we write a book together,” she added. “All while still pressing charges against me. She really thought she could have it all, didn’t she?”
“The audacity of her to still attempt to sell her white woman tears (that no one is buying) while continuing to seamlessly exploit her connection to me and profit off of her ‘terrible trauma’ is flabbergasting.”
Delvey went on to allege De Louche Williams is upset because her contract with HBO, about Delvey and based off her upcoming book, was dropped. “To this day, Rachel Deloache Williams clearly struggles to accept the fact that 12 jurors unanimously agreed I was NOT GUILTY of any charges related to her existence, and that nobody cares about anything she has to say unless she’s talking about me. And while I can understand her being upset at the fact that I’ve already accomplished more from the various jails and prisons than Rachel in her entire sheltered life of privilege, she won’t be getting away with this blatant hypocrisy on my watch. Wherever I happen to be at.”
Delvey signed off with a nail painting emoji, which her friend (and Josh Saftie’s muse) Julia Fox reposted, adding a backing track by Drake.
Love her or hate her, you can’t deny Anna Delvey’s entertaining.
