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My Friend Anna
- The True Story of the Fake Heiress Who Conned Me and Half of New York City
- Narrated by: Rachel DeLoache Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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One of Time’s 100 Best Books of The Year
Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me If You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as an heiress in New York City - as told by the former Vanity Fair photo editor and friend of Delvey’s who was scammed out of more than $62,000 and is featured as a character in the Netflix series Inventing Anna.
Rachel DeLoache Williams’ 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 “glamour, greed, lust for power” (The New York Times), and female friendship.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Katrina Olson
- 2019-12-27
If you had ready any article on this story it will be better than this book
This is not a story of Anna Delvey, it is a story of Rachel he naïveté and her moral compass. Moreover it is a story of Rachel disputing Amex charges Anna put on her card for majority of the book. Repetitive and boring the story never really went anywhere exciting or unpredictable. I wish I had chose a different book.
2 people found this helpful
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- Joni Fisher-Canham
- 2019-09-02
Not much of a story for an entire book...maybe an essay.
This was clearly written by an impressionable, insecure young lady. I was left wondering how she managed to get this published...perhaps her connections at Vanity Fair?
The boring details of story and written from this young woman’s perspective alienated the sophisticated reader.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Arazoo Hoseyni
- 2022-06-03
Rachel is more concerned with her image than story.
In the book she kept on emphasizing on things that restored her public image rather than the actual story. It was interesting to listen to, dont get me wrong, but it was a « fix my public image » kinda story. Making Anna into this rude person that looked down on everyone while Rachel kept on saying she felt uncomfortable, well why did you continue to hang out then?
Like i feel we are not getting the whole story. Rachel liked the way she felt in the presence of Anna because she did not feel like an average person, and she enjoyed Anna giving her time and being in her company because it made her feel superior.
Not a psychologist but this is the vibe of the book. Don’t regret listening to it, but kind of annoyed of the victim image painting situation.
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- Don
- 2022-03-03
Disappointing
A perfect example of why you should hire proper voice talent for audio books. The writing is done in such a monotonous recounting of details I could not finish this book.
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- Kate Hume
- 2022-03-01
I don't understand the hate
I don't understand the hate that this author gets. All I can think is if this happened to me that I would be absolutely destroyed. this is a very interesting story and a good reminder that anyone can be conned.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-07-12
Hot Gossip
This was a sincere and interesting book documenting a great scam with incredible detail. I was hooked and stayed up late listening to this book. A definite must read.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 2020-04-23
Everyday NYC Elitist Drama
I love NYC and visiting it's boujee restaurants and clubs, and enjoying feeling like I'm part of an elite group of people for the while I'm there, but then I go home knowing most of it is fake and easily corrupted. This story felt like the usual drama of people discovering the truth behind the fake instagram models and lying wealthy men who buy bottles on maxed out VISAs. This story could have been better if it was less about the back and forth of a bank statement and more about the nitty gritty truth of the behind the scenes world of NYC. Overall it could have been a good short story but 19 chapters was too long to explain someone getting swindled into a fake world of money and fame which happens daily in NYC.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-10-31
Very well told
Rachel wrote and told her story very well. She kept my interest and I didn't get lost in the details.
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- LKal
- 2019-08-20
A well written true story of deceit
I thoroughly enjoyed this audio book! Rachel narrated her book perfectly! It was truly interesting!
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- sd
- 2019-08-14
Couldn't put it down but it drove me crazy .
It is actually a great story. We have all been duped at some point but this could have been told with more reflection, humility and lessons learned.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- A.
- 2019-09-01
The author is lucky she was scammed.
This will probably sound cruel but in a twisted way the author is lucky that she was conned by Anna Delvry; Being associated with Anna seems to be the only thing interesting about her. Through out the entire book, the author is just so "Gosh golly I don't know how I got scammed!" that it was painful to listen to. The author refuses to admit any wrongdoing and is so precious about everything that at times this book was painful to listen to.
I finished the book because the whole Anna Delvry fiasco is fascinating, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else.
64 people found this helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Alison
- 2019-09-03
Honestly one of the worst books I've ever read.
I was interested in the story of Anna Delvy and was excited to learn about it from someone that was actually involved. This book seemed more like a masturbatory experience for the writer, it had so much unnecessary information about her personal life that I ended up rooting for Anna. The writer is so insufferable that it was difficult to feel any empathy for her. Unless you're looking for a book based on the lifestyle of an unremarkable woman in her late 20's living in New York I would pass on this one.
51 people found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- RM
- 2019-08-14
Belabored
If you want to understand the story of Anna Delvey, this is not it. This is the story of Rachel DeLoache Williams and her wishy-washy take on her personal relationship with Anna. It’s 8+ hours of repetition about one incident in Anna’s list of schemes which affected, ultimately, not Rachel, but American Express. If you have a low and stereotypical opinion of the millennial generation and their refusal to accept responsibility for their actions, then do not fuel your fire by reading this. I’m sure Rachel did not write this for sympathy, which is a good thing because all this story musters is annoyance and some hard eye rolls.
44 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- LuluBelle
- 2019-07-26
How well do you really know your new “best friend?”
There are better people to lay out the bones of this unbelievable story—it’s everywhere if you care to know what happened before you consider this book. However, even if you read every news account, you won’t know how it all happened & what it was like to experience the evil genius of someone you thought you knew. Yes, this true story has been reported in every media outlet by now, & optioned for HBO
& Netflix treatments, but there’s nothing like a shocking story written articulately in first-person. Even better, the writer of “My Friend Anna” narrates the audiobook with such detail & heart-wrenching, palpable emotion, you will want to cheer when the guilty party heads to prison!
If you enjoyed “Bad Blood” as much as I did & are looking for another riveting true story to make you forgo sleep while you listen just one more hour—I highly recommend this book. I will admit that it might appeal most to young, ambitious women early in their careers on their way up the corporate ladder. I think women can relate to meeting someone & quickly forming a bond that makes you overlook faults & warning signals. It was very easy to understand how a kind, intelligent young woman could be taken in by such a calculating, narcissistic psychopath. It was impossible to understand Anna.
FWIW, I will admit I’m “cheap!” My credits are not used lightly. In short, this audiobook was definitely worth a credit!
30 people found this helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- C. Vincent
- 2019-08-25
Pretentious and Just...Awful
My title refers to the author, not Anna. I’m giving up after an hour and I don’t care how many celebs or Manhattan wanna be, or are, somebodies you name drop. Nor do I care what club or restaurant you went to or what bespoke clothes you are wearing. Ugh, bespoke - that overused, annoying adjective. I don’t feel sorry for the author and found her to be extremely superficial and unlikeable. She was blinded by her craving to be cool - her pining, yearning and fawning over the fake Anna is sickening to hear. “I’m one of the cool kids now”.
28 people found this helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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- Lindsay Kruse
- 2019-07-27
Oy
I love scandal stories and exposés. The facts of this story are interesting, but they’re clouded by the author’s cliched writing and naïveté. I did gain this food for thought: maybe I need to start punching up my text exchanges with friends in case I ever need to quote cool messages like “par for the course, amigo” when one of my circle turns out to be a con artist.
23 people found this helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Sydney Gordon
- 2019-08-27
Bland and tedious
This story should have stayed as a condensed Vanity Fair article. It teems with unsympathetic melodrama. It sucked she put her credit card down for the Morocco charges, but its not interesting enough to listen to her rants and worries about it for the whole book. Her hemming and hawing over Annas friendship seemed ridiculous since they were only "friends" for a few months and Anna is clearly a sociopath. No, Rachael, Anna never cared about your friendship, she literally was using you. Even worse, most of the book is just a bland list of *all* her texts. In the end, Annas life sounds frankly terrible and stressful and completely pathetic.
22 people found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Xandros
- 2019-07-29
Worth the read if first time hearing about it
Feels like an stretched version of the original article the author published in vanity fair magazine last year. However for those who do not know the story it’s worth it.
I guess it’s a millennials version of a cautionary tale on trust and friendship.
15 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Merna M. Ward
- 2019-07-29
Fake heiress, not fake news
This was a chilling story
There is not a person growing up who has not been cheated by someone they trusted.
12 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Nancy
- 2019-07-28
A good listen (audio format)
I was thoroughly sucked in by this book. Being far removed from the lifestyle shared here, it was the first I'd heard of Anna Delvey and I found the story fascinating. In the beginning, I thought to recommend it to several friends, but by the end, felt that my friends (who are readers, not listeners) would be turned off by the many details Rachel included, not to mention the extravagance. Because I am a fan of true crime tales, travel and food, these details did appeal to me.
12 people found this helpful