"I feel like my name has been inhabited by this stranger and run a muck through goodness knows what in front of who knows who," she said. "Apparently someone maybe that's my character up as racist." She added: "It's really it's very troubling ... The reason I felt compelled to speak up is I think this is just part and parcel of a bigger picture issue here"
Anna Delvey and Simon Leviev, now infamously known as The Fake Heiress and The Tinder Swindler, are two characters who have infiltrated pop culture and gripped Netflix viewers over recent months. Their joint claim to fame? They're both notorious con artists. So why are viewers and listeners so drawn to these stories of true crime? Writer and author Rachel Williams and journalist Erlend Ofte Arntsen were closely involved in the real-life stories that shaped Netflix's The Tinder Swindler and Inventing Anna. They join journalist and broadcaster Manveen Rana to help provide some answers.
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