{"id":2270783,"date":"2026-02-07T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2270783"},"modified":"2026-02-07T01:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:01:26","slug":"netflix-settles-inventing-anna-defamation-suit-brought-by-ex-vanity-fair-staffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/netflix-settles-inventing-anna-defamation-suit-brought-by-ex-vanity-fair-staffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Settles \u2018Inventing Anna\u2019 Defamation Suit Brought by Ex-Vanity Fair Staffer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Netflix<\/a> has settled a defamation lawsuit brought a Vanity Fair staffer who claimed that she was falsely portrayed in the Shonda Rhimes<\/a> series \u201cInventing Anna<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rachel DeLoache Williams<\/a>, a former friend of con artist Anna Sorokin<\/a>, sued in 2022, claiming that the series gave the false impression that she had abandoned and betrayed Sorokin and depicted her as \u201csnobbish\u201d and \u201cgreedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWilliams and Netflix have resolved the lawsuit,\u201d said a Netflix spokesperson and her attorney, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs<\/a>, in matching statements on Friday.<\/p>\n

The series was based on a New York magazine article about the fake heiress, who went by Anna Delvey<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Netflix has settled a defamation lawsuit brought a Vanity Fair staffer who claimed that she was falsely portrayed in the Shonda Rhimes series \u201cInventing Anna.\u201d Rachel DeLoache Williams, a former friend of con artist Anna Sorokin, sued in 2022, claiming that the series gave the false impression that she had abandoned and betrayed Sorokin and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2270784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2270783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Netflix-Settles-\u2018Inventing-Anna-Defamation-Suit-Brought-by-Ex-Vanity-Fair.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270785,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270783\/revisions\/2270785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}