Back in Manhattan, the repayment never materialized and in the months that followed, Williams made countless attempts to be reimbursed, all of which Anna dodged, ignored or responded to with increasingly elaborate lies. And I let her.īut when Anna proposed an all-expenses-paid trip to Marrakech at the five-star La Mamounia hotel, and Williams, through an extraordinary set of circumstances was forced to ‘temporarily’ foot the US$62,000 bill on her credit cards, their friendship was compromised. Yet, wanting what she wanted, she set our course and kept me on her raft. When it came to material possessions, Anna was pared down, but when it came to indulgent experiences, she couldn’t get enough… And since Anna liked to have company, she pulled me into the deeper water with her, where I knew my way around (thanks to my job and past experiences with wealthy college friends) but was not capable of floating on my own. Once Williams was part of her entourage, Anna picked up the tab for regular dinners at Le Coucou, infrared sauna sessions, drinks at the 11 Howard Library bar, and regular workout sessions with celebrity personal trainer, Kacy Duke. In 2017, Williams – mid-twenties a photo editor for Vanity Fair living in a studio apartment in New York – meets Anna Delvey, a ‘German heiress’ who was in New York to work on “…the Anna Delvey Foundation, a visual-arts center she was developing that would house gallery space, restaurants, members-only lounges, and more.”Īnna was charismatic, ambitious and generous. And it is the detail that makes this memoir so engrossing. It took all my restraint to not type ‘Anna Delvey’ into Google as I was reading My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams because, although I was vaguely aware of the outcome of Williams’s ‘ Sex and the City meets Catch Me if You Can’ story, I couldn’t recall the detail.
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