(That project is no longer in development and Williams was given back the option rights.
Williams was also reportedly paid $35,000 by HBO for option rights. Netflix reportedly paid Sorokin $320,000 for her life rights in order to produce the story alongside Pressler, a payment that apparently irked Williams, despite the fact that most of the money was spent on restitution, fines, and attorney fees Sorokin reportedly pocketed $22,000.īy comparison, Williams too has profited off the ordeal, selling book rights to Simon & Schuster for a reported $300,000. Williams published her own account of the story, which ran in Vanity Fair in 2018, just a month before Jessica Pressler’s New York Magazine story, the source material for Inventing Anna. (Sorokin is currently in ICE detention, facing deportation.)
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Williams criticized the series for portraying Sorokin heroically-as a savvy and inspiring hustler, and not as a convicted felon. You watch the spectacle, but you’re not paying attention to what’s being marketed.” “Having had a front-row seat to for far too long, I’ve studied the way a con works more than anybody needs to. “I think promoting this whole narrative and celebrating a sociopathic, narcissistic, proven criminal is wrong,” Williams told Vanity Fair in a recent interview.
Rachel Williams, the real-life ex-friend of Anna Delvey/Sorokin, who appears in Netflix’s Inventing Annaas “Rachel” and who was, in fact, swindled for $62,000 by Sorokin on 2017 trip to Marrakech, recently lambasted the Netflix series.
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