TOeven if the screenwriter Shonda Rhimes he says it at the beginning of each episode: “This story is completely true except the parts that are completely fictional”, a Rachel Williams, the Vanity Fair reporter who is a friend of Anna Sorokinwhat he saw in the series did not like the same.
Netflix in court for the series Inventing Anna
And so Netflix ends up in court for Inventing Annathe very popular series about the false heiress Anna Sorokin who with the name Anna Delvey he scammed well-known and wealthy New Yorkers until she was discovered and arrested.
The accusation of defamation
Williams sued the colossus in streaming accusing him of defamation. According to Williams, in fact, his connection with Sorokin it would not have been at all as it is told on the big screen.
Inventing Anna, Julia Garner and Anna Delvery “Sorokin”
Anna’s friend painted as she is not
“Williams stopped being friends with Anna because on returning from Morocco, realized she was a liar and a scammer and not because he had had problems with her, ”the woman’s lawyers argue.
The lawsuit against Netflix aims to show that the streaming giant, when he described Rachel as “a greedy, snobbish, disloyal, dishonest, cowardly, manipulative and opportunistic young womanHe did so on purpose, without respecting the truth of the facts.
In short, explained Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, who represents Williams, “they made her a horrible person, which she is really not. But they used Williams ‘real name and her biographical details.’
Which, the lawyer points out, Netflix did not do for other characters and that would have allowed the company not to be accused of defamation.
A Netflix Revenge?
But there is something more: according to the legal action the real reason that brought Netflix to do so, it would have been that Williams had sold the rights to his article to the competition, namely Hbo. And Netflix would have done nothing but take revenge.
It is not the first time that the streaming giant ends up in court: even the Trumpian jurist Alan Dershowitzthe former Georgian Chess Grand Master Nona Gaprindashvili and an organization of Cuban exiles have sued over how they have been portrayed in various shows and films.
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