Unnamed Commentator 1
Appearances
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
But of course, Anna, she doesn't want to stop living the life just yet.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Suddenly, the gullible fool is no longer so foolish. So they're messaging back and forth, but every single time that Anna messages Rachel, Rachel is screenshotting it and sending it straight to the DA.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Rachel sends a message to Anna saying, I'm at the restaurant, where are you, is everything okay? Because she didn't want Anna at that point to know that she had played her, but she did, she played her like an absolute fiddle.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
The nature of her crimes meant it was easy for the judge to not grant Anna bail.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
She knew that the world's media were focusing the spotlight on her, and there was no way that she was going to look bad at trial.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
She was wearing Victoria Beckham and Michael Kors. The choker became such a look. There was so much media attention on what she was looking like.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
So Anna was definitely really starting to spin the lies at this point and stepping up her con a level. She was creating fake documents to try and persuade bankers that she was worth around 60 million euros.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
She clearly felt she was above it and was a woman who dreamed far bigger than her horizons.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I really did everything I could think of. That's all.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Anna is a tricky woman to describe. She is like no one I've ever met before. She is the slipperiest of slippery fish, I would say.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
I just think how stupid can you be that you were that indiscreet? You know, she didn't think of the consequences.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Anna will fight being deported to Germany tooth and nail. Anna is back in jail, and I think speaking to somebody who knows her, she is cutting a lonelier figure than ever.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
New York is the ultimate comeback place, but she would have to show real contrition to persuade people to take her seriously. And she's gonna have to do that wherever she goes, but I think maybe she has more of a shot at it at the city that she didn't do.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
She was really taking people for an absolute ride. She didn't do an honest day's work in her life in New York. The way she was living, dishing out $100 tips, living out of hotels, she was certainly living like she had that sort of money.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
She was meeting with big, important leaders of industry. It was going to cost about $40 million to build, and Anna had about $4.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
At some point, somebody must have started the idea that she was an heiress. And who would have started that besides Anna?
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Rachel Deloach Williams was a picture editor at Vanity Fair magazine.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Yes. Rachel fell hook, line, and sinker for the narrative that she was in line to inherit tens of millions of dollars.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Somebody must have started the idea that she was an heiress. And who would have started that besides Anna? It was the Kardashian lifestyle.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Khloe Kardashian has stayed there once upon a time. Quite a few decades before that, Winston Churchill would regularly stay there. You know, this is where the great and the uber wealthy have hung out for decades.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Anna claims that her credit cards aren't going through because she hasn't given the banks the heads up that she's going to be in a foreign country, so her banks have blocked it, which is just the type of thing that would happen, and it seems a kind of credible reason.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Two of the hotel workers were not going to let these women move until they had a working credit card.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
She hands over her personal card and she also hands over her corporate card. It makes me feel nauseous. How terrifying that must be. You know, your job is now on the line.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
Rachel fell hook, line, and sinker for the narrative that she was in line to inherit tens of millions of dollars.
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True Crime Vault: The Sinfluencer of Soho
July 2017, she is arrested for the first time, and it's for theft of services, and it relates to three things in New York. Unpaid bills at the Beekman, at the W Hotel, and at Le Parc Meridien.