She didn’t have empathy for that person and she wasn’t able to empathize.īoth of my parents are clinical psychologists and I was aware that she was troubled, but I wanted to be a good friend to her. I believe it was related to her sociopathy.

She delivered some bad news to that friend, a really hurtful piece of information. She had had a falling out with a girl when I met her. “‘Both of my parents are clinical psychologists and I was aware that she was troubled, but I wanted to be a good friend to her.’ ” -Rachel DeLoache Williams on her former friend, fake heiress Anna Sorokin I spent two years following that little blip in my life, trying to reckon with it. The time we spent together was a little over two months. Anna did say things like, “It’s all going to work out for me or all go terribly wrong.” I took that to mean she was referring to her art-foundation project. Mostly, I noticed things like entitlement and rudeness. MarketWatch: Looking back, did you ignore any red flags?ĭeLoache Williams: I never saw telltale signs to tell me this person was an impostor, or living a lie. She clearly fooled enough banks and hedge funds that I believed her with her foundation plans. She knew what artists were doing where and when. It was going to have multi-disciplinary pop-up events. MarketWatch: What attracted her to you as a friend?ĭeLoache Williams: She was fun, spontaneous.

MarketWatch spoke to DeLoache Williams, the author of “ My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress,” about how her former friend scammed her out of tens of thousands of dollars: Anna Sorokin in happier times during her time posing as fake German heiress ‘Anna Delvey.’

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