My Friend Anna: The True Story of the Fake Heiress Who Conned Me and Half of New York City by Rachel DeLoache Williams


My Friend Anna: The True Story of the Fake Heiress Who Conned Me and Half of New York City
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Sex and the City meets Catch Me If You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey a young con artist posing as a German heiress in New York City as told by the former Vanity Fair photo editor who got seduced by her friendship and then scammed out ofthan 62000 Vanity Fair photo editor Rachel DeLoache Williams’s new friend Anna Delvey a self proclaimed German heiress was worldly and ambitious She was also generous picking up the tab for lavish dinners at Le Coucou infrared sauna sessions at HigherDOSE drinks at the 11 Howard Library bar and regular workout sessions with a celebrity personal trainer  When Anna proposed an all expenses paid trip to Marrakech at the five star La Mamounia hotel Rachel jumped at the chance But when Anna’s credit cards mysteriously stopped working the dream vacation uickly took a dark turn Anna asked Rachel to begin fronting costs first for flights then meals and shopping and finally for their 7500 per night private villa Before Rachel knew itthan 62000 had been charged to her credit cards Anna swore she would reimburse Rachel the moment they returned to New York  Back in Manhattan the repayment never materialized and a shocking pattern of deception emerged Rachel learned that Anna had left a trail of deceit and unpaid bills wherever she’d been Mortified Rachel contacted the district attorney and in a stunning turn of events found herself helping to bring down one of the city’s most notorious con artists  With breathless pacing and in depth reporting from the person who experienced it firsthand My Friend Anna is an unforgettable true story of money power greed and female friendship  Sex and the City meets Catch Me If You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as a German heiress in New York City - as told by the former Vanity Fair photo editor who got seduced by her friendship and then scammed out of more than $62,000.  Vanity Fair photo editor Rachel DeLoache Williams’s new friend, Anna Delvey, a self-proclaimed German heiress, was worldly and ambitious. She was also generous - picking up the tab for lavish dinners at Le Coucou, infrared sauna sessions at HigherDOSE, drinks at the 11 Howard Library bar, and regular workout sessions with a celebrity personal trainer.  When Anna proposed an all-expenses-paid trip to Marrakech at the five-star La Mamounia hotel, Rachel jumped at the chance. But when Anna’s credit cards mysteriously stopped working, the dream vacation quickly took a dark turn. Anna asked Rachel to begin fronting costs - first for flights, then meals and shopping, and, finally, for their $7,500-per-night private villa. Before Rachel knew it, more than $62,000 had been charged to her credit cards. Anna swore she would reimburse Rachel the moment they returned to New York.  Back in Manhattan, the repayment never materialized, and a shocking pattern of deception emerged. Rachel learned that Anna had left a trail of deceit - and unpaid bills - wherever she’d been. Mortified, Rachel contacted the district attorney, and in a stunning turn of events, found herself helping to bring down one of the city’s most notorious con artists.  With breathless pacing and in-depth reporting from the person who experienced it firsthand, My Friend Anna is an unforgettable true story of money, power, greed, and female friendship.  Sex and the City meets Catch Me If You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as a German heiress in New York City - as told by the former Vanity Fair photo editor who got seduced by her friendship and then scammed out of more than $62,000.  Vanity Fair photo editor Rachel DeLoache Williams’s new friend, Anna Delvey, a self-proclaimed German heiress, was worldly and ambitious. She was also generous - picking up the tab for lavish dinners at Le Coucou, infrared sauna sessions at HigherDOSE, drinks at the 11 Howard Library bar, and regular workout sessions with a celebrity personal trainer.  When Anna proposed an all-expenses-paid trip to Marrakech at the five-star La Mamounia hotel, Rachel jumped at the chance. But when Anna’s credit cards mysteriously stopped working, the dream vacation quickly took a dark turn. Anna asked Rachel to begin fronting costs - first for flights, then meals and shopping, and, finally, for their $7,500-per-night private villa. Before Rachel knew it, more than $62,000 had been charged to her credit cards. Anna swore she would reimburse Rachel the moment they returned to New York.  Back in Manhattan, the repayment never materialized, and a shocking pattern of deception emerged. Rachel learned that Anna had left a trail of deceit - and unpaid bills - wherever she’d been. Mortified, Rachel contacted the district attorney, and in a stunning turn of events, found herself helping to bring down one of the city’s most notorious con artists.  With breathless pacing and in-depth reporting from the person who experienced it firsthand, My Friend Anna is an unforgettable true story of money, power, greed, and female friendship.  

My Friend Anna: The True Story of the Fake Heiress Who Conned Me and Half of New York City Reviews

  • Bücherwurm007

    quite an interesting read, to get a in depth insight into how "all of this" went down. With 0,99€ for the kindle ebook definitely worth the price ;)

  • Yoga Girl

    Mega spannend und interessant, viel besser als die hochgelobte Serie bei Netflix, die ich schon nach der Hälfte der 1. Episode langweilig fand, obwohl ich durchaus ein Fan von Shonda Rhimes bin. Nach langer zeit mal wieder eine Lektüre, die ich gar nicht mehr aus der Hand

  • goodreads Kunde

    Ich bin bei 30% und denke mir nur, wie kann man sich wie ein kleines Hündchen nur so bezahlen und dressieren lassen und sich dann auch noch wundern, dass die Sache einen Haken hat. Dumm, dumm, dumm. und selbst schuld

  • Virginie Storm

    Die Autorin Rachel Williams arbeitete bei Vanity Fair und lernte auf einer Party die Millionenerbin Anna Sorokin Delvey kennen. Die beiden jungen Frauen freundeten sich an und eroberten das Nachtleben von New York. Sie gingen auf die angesagten Partys, in die coolen Clubs.

  • Julia

    It was not what I expected. What I expected was a book about Anna Delvey. What I got was a book about the author waiting to get her money back, including visits to her aunt and other boring details about her life. Way too much about the author's personal life spiced up with

  • Susanne H.

    Good God, never had I read a book boring than this. Details are based soley on surroundings including the color of book shelves and candles as well as the designer names and descriptions on each clothes item..yaawwwnnnn..I want my money back!!! According to the

  • Maria Eero

    Didn't like it!

  • Hollie

    I rarely write any reviews, especially of a book but I feel quite strongly about this one for reasons I can’t quite identify. I think the story itself is interesting although ultimately it spanned a very short period of time. The rest of the book seems to be very much focused around the author’s constant drive to show herself in the best light. It felt like a never ending barrage of “look how amazing/kind/honest/loyal I am” to the point where I utterly disliked Rachel by the end. I was relieved to get to the end of the story.

  • Miss Hazel Speirs

    Let me give you some quotes from my book group who all read this:'I returned it to Kindle as I didn't want it in my book list''It is an abomination to trees''I would like to get transferred to prison to paper cut her with this book'Whoever wrote these other reviews must have read a totally different book. This is without doubt the worst book I have ever read. It scored 4 out of 80 at my book group (and most people only scored it 1 to give themselves a point for reading it). You could remove all the pages between the first and last chapter and it may have made it readable.I felt about this book as I did watching the Fyre Festival documentary a lack of sympathy and also joy at idiots getting what they deserve. When someone asked me who I like , Anna or Rachel, I had to say Rachel as at least she was punctual for meetings. That was the only redeeming feature she had.I am unsure what the purpose of this book was for her and I don't know who was actually interested in this awful, repetitive story. Don't read this if you think you are going to hear about how Anna managed to build up her reputation and all of the things she did. It covers none of that.The only thing I am left with is a sense of rage that the credit card company actually wrote off her debt.

  • The book is easy enough reading and as other reviewers have said, padded out with a lot of irrelevant detail re the humdrum of the author's life. I've read worse, though, and that's easy skimmed over.There's a lot of padding because the author doesn't really have that much of a history with Anna Delvey. She meets her a couple times the previous year through mutual friends, and then in the subsequent year when Anna plunges her into debt, she'd only be hanging out with her for a few months. She meets up with Anna in February and in May they go to Marrakesh. After Marrakesh, she doesn't really see Anna again, the relationship is conducted via text messaging.So Rachel doesn't really have all that much to tell about Anna because Anna doesn't tell her anything about herself. Rachel can only relay what little time she spent in Anna's company and frankly, it doesn't warrant a word count of this book's size.There's no in depth biography of Anna here, no real idea of what makes her tick, no additional stories of other people she's conned, it's just Rachel and her ongoing battle with American Express to try and get the charges reversed that she'd willingly allowed her cards to be used for, and signed for. Frankly I'm amazed she ever got those charges reversed.Rachel is pretty much a nobody at her NY magazine job and latches onto someone that she thinks is. At first she considers Anna quirky, imbued with the sort of odd/awkward social mannerism of the eccentric wealthy. When Anna turns her over for $60k, she then views these same traits as toxic and Anna devoid of social intelligence.It's pretty clear that Anna was always an oddball, abrupt and rude, and lacking in the sort of charisma you'd expect to be the foundation of the con artist. Rachel put up with it because she liked coat tailing someone she thought a multi millionaire heiress and was along for the ride and freebies.When that turned sour, so did Rachel. Not that I blame her since she was out $60k. I don't feel sorry for her, though.As others have noted, Rachel isn't ashamed to blow her own trumpet of virtue in that manner that'd make Anna blush. Her interactions with men are telling and entitled, and I really don't think any man could ever be as impressed with Rachel as she is with herself.It's an okay read but says nothing Rachel didn't already say in her Vanity Fair article that was released prior to the book.All told, people like Rachel and Anna are made for each other.

  • Tess

    Compulsive reading! I read the book in a day, but then, I love books like this, about con artists and especially true stories. It was very well written. I thought that Rachael acted like a free loader and I didn’t feel especially sorry for her. I would have felt very uncomfortable going out for meals at posh places I couldn’t afford, letting someone else constantly pick up the tab. I wouldn’t have wanted all the high end treatments and gym sessions if I couldn’t pay for them myself. I am way to independent a person for that! So I wouldn’t have been going on that holiday and so, that couldn’t have happened to me. That said, when the situation arose and she stupidly agreed to a massive amount being put on her card, I did feel sorry for her, because she trusted her ‘friend’. And who hasn’t trusted a friend before and found that they shouldn't have been trusted after all?. It does mess with you head for many months. I know it was a real book, so it had to follow what happened but maybe with a bit of artistic licence a film would have a big showdown at the end. Exciting stuff! Loved it and would recommend!

  • Z-Lo

    You know when you really look forward to something and then it’s a bitmeh? Well this book was just that. I'd seen it on peoples Bookstagram's for a while and really wanted to ready it, so when I got offered the chance via NetGalley and the publisher, I jumped at the chance.Maybe its the Yorkshire in me but I really couldn’t believe that someone (i.e. Rachel, i.e. the author) had fallen for this crazy woman’s scams for so long? I mean fool me once, but twice and a third time$70,000 dollars worth of fooling??? No I'm sorry. Whilst I have sympathy for what Rachel went through, I thought she came across as very gullible, naive and a little bit whiney.The book itself dragged on way too long for my liking. I think the author went into way too much minute detail about every little thing and often at her own expense as she just came off as and naïve. I may not move in the New York social scene but what on earth was it going to take for her to wake up and smell the coffee?I’m glad that she eventually got the justice she craved( and deserved), but I think the book was a stretch too far and should have been kept for a dinner party story.