“She walked into my life in Gucci sandals and showed me a glamorous, hassle-free world. Dinners in Le CouCou, living in a hotel, infrared saunas, holidays in Morocco. And then she made my 62,000 dollars (54,480 euros) disappear.” These are the words of Rachel Deloache Williams, one of the women who testified against Anna Sorokin in 2019. The Russian, whom she nicknamed ‘the false heiress’, had taken a lot of money from her, she said. More than she made in one year as a photo editor at Vanity Fair. Stolen by someone she considered her friend.