

“We landed in Morocco, and we were on line going through customs,” says Duke, recalling the trip she took with Sorokin, Williams, and a videographer who was purportedly filming the vacation for a documentary.

The trainer spoke to Pressler, but refused to go on record because, she tells Vanity Fair, she was fearful that publicly affiliating herself with Sorokin (who was eventually sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison for eight counts) would be bad for the successful business she built working with actors like Lenny Kravitz, Gwen Stefani, Denzel Washington, and Kate Beckinsale. But when Jessica Pressler published her bombshell New York magazine feature in 2018 about Sorokin-the basis of Netflix’s Inventing Anna-Duke’s name was nowhere to be seen. So after reading about Dakota Johnson’s fitness regime on the final two Fifty Shades of Grey films, Sorokin reached out to the trainer and life coach partly responsible for the actor’s physique, Kacy Duke, and became a client, Duke says.ĭuke, who is nearly four decades older than Sorokin (but looks maybe two), ended up accompanying Sorokin and her friend, former Vanity Fair staffer Rachel Williams, on their ill-fated trip to Morocco.
JULIA GARNER ANNA DELVEY SERIAL
In 2017, Anna Sorokin was still conning her way through elite circles-bilking banks, hotels, and associates for more than $200,000-in her alleged quest to build a social club.īut Sorokin-who was calling herself Anna Delvey at the time-was not just a serial hustler.
