Netflix’s defamation case introduced by journalist Rachel DeLoache Williams over the restricted collection “Inventing Anna” has been dismissed after practically 4 years.
The previous Vainness Honest staffer and buddy of fraudster Anna Sorokin, self-dubbed Anna Delvey, sued the streamer in 2022, claiming the collection intentionally depicted her as “snobbish, disloyal and dishonest.”
“Williams and Netflix have resolved the lawsuit,” a Netflix spokesperson and Williams’ lawyer, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, mentioned Friday.
The case was dismissed in Delaware district courtroom Friday with prejudice, which means that neither get together can deliver the identical case ahead once more. Either side pays their very own authorized charges and bills.
The 2022 swimsuit alleged that, because of her portrayal within the Netflix collection, “Williams was subjected to a torrent of on-line abuse, detrimental in-person interactions and pejorative characterizations in podcasts,” and detailed that she has obtained hundreds of abusive messages.
Williams’ character, performed by Katie Lowes within the Netflix collectionwas the one one who was given an actual particular person’s full identify and private background particulars, the reporter’s swimsuit famous.
The collection was based mostly on a New York journal article concerning the pretend heiress, who glided by Anna Delvey and who served practically 4 years in jail for fraud.
In 2019, Williams printed a e-book about her experiences with Sorokin, “My Pal Anna: The True Story of a Pretend Heiress” (based mostly on a 2018 story she had written for Vainness Honest), and signed a take care of HBO to adapt the e-book for TV — occasions which are depicted in “Inventing Anna.”
Williams additionally claimed in her lawsuit that the collection glorified Sorokin and villainized her character.
Netflix tried to throw out the lawsuit in 2024, arguing that the present’s creators had license to provide their very own interpretation of Sorokin’s story, however a federal decide denied that movement.
The decide had not but dominated on the streamer’s follow-up movement for abstract judgment when the case was resolved Friday.
