That's why number one on my summer reading list is My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress by Rachel DeLoache Williams." - Town & Country "Beach reads should be light, fun, and serve a lot dish. Read for an inside look at NYC's elite - and a lesson in how people aren't always what they seem." - The Skimm "It started out as an article in Vanity Fair and ended up a national obsession. This one's nonfiction but feels too wild to be true." - The Skimm a behind-the-scenes look at the scam and how she got away with it.until she didn't. "If you gobbled up every last detail of the Anna Sorokin 'Fake Socialite' trial this spring (and really, who didn't?), your addictive summer beach read has arrived." - New York Post " My Friend Anna is the dishy story you've been craving ever since Anna Delvey first made headlines.a harrowing account of what it's like to be conned." - Refinery29 "Unbelievable, unforgettable, and unputdownable: that's My Friend Anna. "My Friend Anna is sensational." - Bustle She was found guilty of theft of services and grand larceny, facing up to 15 years in prison. *Anna stood a high-profile trial in New York that has been followed voraciously by the media. Between Anna, Fyre Festival's Billy McFarland (Anna even tried to scam Billy) and Elizabeth Holmes, whose start-up app duped the high and mighty of Silicon Valley, this is the year of the scammer. Written by Rachel DeLoache Williams, the Vanity Fair photography editor who believed Anna's lies before helping the police to track her down (fittingly, deciphering Anna's location using Instagram), this is Catch Me If You Can with Instagram filters. This is the incredible story of how Anna Sorokin conned the high-rollers of the NYC social scene and convinced her close friend of an entirely concocted fantasy, the product of falsified bank documents, bad cheques and carefully edited online photos. But after Anna's debit card was declined in a Moroccan medina whilst on holiday in a five-star luxury resort, Rachel began to suspect that her increasingly mysterious friend was not all she seemed. Theirs was an intoxicating world of endless excess: high dining, personal trainer sessions, a luxury holiday. After meeting through mutual friends, the 'Russian heiress' Anna Delvey and Rachel DeLoache Williams soon became inseparable. This is the true story of Anna Delvey, the fake heiress whose dizzying deceit and elaborate con-artistry deceived the Soho hipster scene before her ruse was finally and dramatically exposed. gripping stuff' SUNDAY TIMES _ How does it feel to be betrayed by your closest friend? A close friend who turns out to be the most prolific grifter in New York City. Definitely one for the beach' ELLE 'Paints a fascinating picture of an eccentric egomaniac who rails against all authority. a jaw-dropping read' STYLIST ' Explosive. *ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2019* ' Addictive.
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