{"id":1626805,"date":"2022-08-30T10:05:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626805"},"modified":"2022-08-30T10:06:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T14:06:56","slug":"inventing-anna-subject-rachel-williams-sues-netflix-for-defamation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inventing-anna-subject-rachel-williams-sues-netflix-for-defamation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Inventing Anna\u2019 Subject Rachel Williams Sues Netflix For Defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finventing-anna-subject-rachel-williams-sues-netflix-for-defamation-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626805&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>One villain of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/netflix\">Netflix<\/a> limited series \u201cInventing Anna\u201d is striking back with a defamation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lawsuit\">lawsuit<\/a> aimed at the streaming giant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Vanity Fair photo editor Rachel Williams is unhappy with how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/television\">producer<\/a> Shonda Rhimes portrayed her in the documentary, which explored the lies of real-life con artist Anna \u201cDelvey\u201d Sorokin. Williams is portrayed as a money-seeking social climber in the show. Now, the real-life person says the portrayal has caused significant fallout in her life since the series aired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis action will show that 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,\u201d a complaint filed Monday in Delaware federal court says, per <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/08\/netflix-inventing-anna-lawsuit-sorokin-rachel-williams-shonda-rhimes-1235102607\/\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Defamatory Statements are defamatory because they tend to expose her to public contempt, ridicule, aversion or disgrace, or to induce an evil opinion of her, and they are defamatory per se because their import is apparent from the face of the Series without resort to any other source,\u201d it continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and a jury trial. Williams is also demanding to have the alleged defamatory scenes edited out of \u201cInventing Anna\u201d going forward. The limited series was originally released on Netflix in February, the publication noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe magnitude of the harm to Williams caused by the Netflix\u2019s defamation has been extraordinary by any plausible measure,\u201d the suit states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Series has been viewed by millions of people around the world, and as a result of Netflix\u2019s false portrayal of her as a despicable person, she has been subjected to a torrent of online abuse which have caused her personal humiliation, distress, and anguish, as well as damages to her earnings and\/or potential earnings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 34, wrote about her experience with Sorokin, 31, in a 2018 article for her former employer Vanity Fair. The fake German heiress who became a national obsession when \u201cInventing Anna\u201d debuted allegedly conned Williams into using her corporate credit card for $62,000 during a trip to Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>She later wrote the book \u201cMy Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress,\u201d which was published in 2019. Williams made a deal for her story with HBO, which was supposed to be produced by Lena Dunham, but the rights have since expired.<\/p>\n<p>Williams made around $340,000 before taxes for the rights to her story, Deadline reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why we have had to file this lawsuit is because Netflix used Rachel\u2019s real name and biographical details, and made her out to be a horrible person, which she is not,\u201d attorney Alexander Rufus-Isaacs said in a statement to Deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe devastating damage to her reputation could have been avoided if only Netflix had used a fictitious name and different details. Why didn\u2019t they do this for her, when they did for so many other characters in the Series? Perhaps the reason was that she had chosen to play for the other team, i.e., HBO.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One villain of the Netflix limited series \u201cInventing Anna\u201d is striking back with a defamation lawsuit aimed at the streaming giant.\u00a0 Ex-Vanity Fair photo editor Rachel Williams is unhappy with how producer Shonda Rhimes portrayed her in the documentary, which explored the lies of real-life con artist Anna \u201cDelvey\u201d Sorokin. 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