Netflix Settles ‘Inventing Anna’ Defamation Suit Brought by Ex-Vanity Fair Staffer

Netflix has settled a defamation lawsuit brought a Vanity Fair staffer who claimed that she was falsely portrayed in the Shonda Rhimes series “Inventing Anna.”

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 depicted her as “snobbish” and “greedy.”

“Williams and Netflix have resolved the lawsuit,” said a Netflix spokesperson and her attorney, Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, in matching statements on Friday.

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