'When you're presented with wall after wall, you run out of options at a certain point.'įor most fraudsters, getting arrested would have ended the tale.īut when news of Ms Sorokin's scamming became known, Hollywood came sniffing, throwing around huge sums of money to buy the rights to her life of lies. Victim Rachel DeLoache Williams spoke with 60 Minutes reporter Liam Bartlett. 'It was only really after Marrakech that it started to become obvious that there was more to the story than met the eye,' she recalled. The fast-talking fake heiress had plenty of excuses about why she didn't have the money, but by this time Ms DeLoache Williams had had enough – she went to the police to expose her so-called friend.

In a classic con, she offered to take Ms DeLoache Williams on an all-expenses-paid luxury holiday to Morocco, but when it came time to pay up, it was Ms DeLoache Williams who was forced to pay the US$62,000 bill. When they first met, Ms DeLoache Williams was an up-and-coming photo editor at Vanity Fair, but Ms Sorokin quickly saw an opportunity too good to miss. 'It relates to a certain type of personality that I would today call a sociopath.' When victim Rachel DeLoache Williams first met the fraudster in 2016, Ms Sorokin was using the alias Anna Delvey. 'I think that confidence is part of how she took it as far as she did,' Ms DeLoache Williams said. In return, she fleeced them for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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