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Bonnie Fuller, whose employment at American Media might very well consist of finding a new job, recording video segments, and blogging for Huffington Post, weighs in, as she so often does with women in peril, on Anne Hathaway, who must trudge along with promoting Get Smart while the press gleefully rips ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri to shreds. But to Fuller, who invented the “Just Like Us!” feature while running Us Weekly, Hathaway’s struggle isn’t about a Hollywood star down on her luck, but is instead the story of so many women who get duped by “good guys.”

Yes, Ms. Hathaway’s multi-million dollar swindling scam of a relationship makes her just like us!

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Jun 27, 2008 · Link · Respond

Support the disgraced businessman by charging your next flight to his credit card

We can only imagine that Raffaello Follieri — who does not yet even have his own Wikipedia page! — has been cut off from his normal source of funds, the Follieri Group, which he’s charged with treating as his own personal bank account, despite the fact that its balance sheet belongs to investors like Ron Burkle. That’s why his $21 million bail had to be, according to a judge’s orders, secured “by $16 million in cash and property and guaranteed by five financially responsible persons.” [NYT]

But what if after all his supposed swindling, which involved previous charges by Burkle’s Yucaipa fund of $1.3 million in “misappropriated” funds, plus federal prosecutors’ charges that he’s spent his investors’ money lavishly on his own homes, vacations, and medical care, Follieri could still be funneling a bit of change into his bank account?

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Jun 26, 2008 · Link · 1 Response

After that power lunch at Michael’s on Monday, Raffaello Follieri was planning to jet off to Italy on Wednesday and spend some time in Capri. He’d even scheduled a birthday party for himself with friends at a restaurant in his hometown of Foggia. Then Tuesday got in the way, what with that little 12-count indictment, his handcuffing, courtroom antics, and eventual house arrest. All of which reveals one little thing: Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend had zero idea the feds were after him. If he did, at the very least he could’ve moved up his travel plans, or even better, gone somewhere else beside Italy, which has an extradition agreement with the U.S. — though after the CIA flap last year, where the U.S. refused to send accused officials overseas for trial, perhaps the Italians are less willing to cooperate with American law enforcement these days. We hear Austria is lovely, and uncooperative, these days.

Jun 26, 2008 · Link · Respond

While Glamour’s Suze Yalof Schwartz yammers on about lab-made diamonds and prints an interview with Joan Parker, brand ambassador for lab-made diamond company Gemesis, she inserts this aside: While interviewing Parker at Michael’s restaurant on Monday, she sat across from embroiled and arrested businessman Raffaello Follieri, ex-bf to Anne Hathaway, who, she says, “didn’t look that sad (about the break-up) or worried (about the impending arrest).” The following morning, federal agents arrested him and charged Follieri with 12 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering. Hope the Pan Roasted Atlantic Cod was delicious!

Jun 25, 2008 · Link · Respond



It’s not that Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri is a con artist. It’s that he’s a bad con-artist. How to tell? He was arrested! That’s sort of the biggest criteria for finding out if a con artist is bad at his game. The second piece of criteria? Going to prison, which is where it sounds like he’s headed.

Trying to buy some sway with the pope, because you told your investors you were the Church’s financial manager, by donating $387,000 of your investors’ cash to the Vatican? And when that didn’t work, you hired a pair of monsignors to travel with you and then asked them to change into a more seniorial robe to send the impression you were down with god’s No. 2? If this sounds like a caper out of one of, uh, Hathaway’s movies, add to the film treatment many more hundreds of thousands of swindled funds that went toward funding a lavish lifestyle including a Trump Tower duplex, custom tailored clothes, and luxurious holiday travels, and you’re really on your way to the bumbling about of Get Smart.

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Jun 24, 2008 · Link · Respond

Congratulations to the Wall Street Journal, which got through its entire lede about Italian “businessman” Raffaello Follieri, arrested today on conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering charges, without mentioning ex-girlfriend Anne Hathaway. [WSJ]

Jun 24, 2008 · Link · Respond

Though she has a new movie out called Get Smart, over the Atlantic, Anne Hathaway is still “the Devil Wears Prada star.” But it’s also over there that news is breaking that she’s split from boyfriend-of-four-years Raffaello Follieri, whose ability to bounce a bad cheque has Ed McMahon jealous. Hathaway’s fans were hoping she’d, ahem, “get smart” by the time her movie Get Smart premiered, and now it appears she may have: He was nowhere to be found at the Los Angeles premiere last night, and rumor has it they split. Meanwhile, Hathaway’s next film is Rachel Getting Married, so if she was going to follow the forecasting of one movie title, it’s probably best she did it with the Steve Carrell comedy.

Jun 17, 2008 · Link · Respond