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Home › Entertainment

Entertainment | 10/24/2008 10:50 am

Anne Hathaway's Con Man Ex Gets 4 1/2 Years in Prison

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
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Raffaello Follieri was sentenced Thursday to 4 ½ years in prison after pleading guilty to money laundering, wire fraud and conspiracy. The handsome con man swindled investors out of millions by telling them that he had ties with the Vatican and could hence score them great deals on church properties in the U.S.

"I made some terrible mistakes," Follieri said, reports the New York Daily News. "I just hope that someday those who have been hurt by my actions can forgive me."

Today the Daily News posted a photograph that Follieri reportedly flashed to business partners as evidence of his chummy Vatican connections. The photo looks like Follieri kneeling in front of Pope John Paul. A seemingly covered Anne Hathaway is standing behind him. The "Rachel Getting Married" star’s ex has reportedly been pleading for leniency with his sentencing — keeping his fingers crossed to receive a three-year sentence, the Daily News reports.

Follieri has expressed in the past that his schemes were out of character for him, an Italian native, who was raised in "in the heart of the holy Catholic Church." His lawyer has said in the past that he wasn’t thinking during his cons because he became "intoxicated" by the A-list lifestyle.

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12 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Belinda Joy
Ha! I knew he would have to do time. Anne, don’t beat yourself up, you didn’t know. Some people are excellent at hiding their true selves.
By Belinda Joy on 10/24/2008 10:56 am
Eliza Dodd
Thats all he got was 4&1/2 years ? If any of did that we would of got 40 years !But what the HELL am I thinking Bush and Dick have 60 Pages of WAR crimes and they get nothing …I forgot I live in Nazi America !
By Eliza Dodd on 10/24/2008 10:58 am
Irish Eyes NY
My God Eliza Dud: Don’t you ever proof-read what you write??? Or are you as I suspect , really 7 years old? Either that or just a really stupid broad.
By Irish Eyes NY on 10/28/2008 4:18 pm
Eliza Dodd
This is Creepy!! Think of a letter between A and W. Repeat it out loud as you scroll down. Keep going … Don’t stop .. .. Think of an animal that begins with that letter. Repeat it out loud as you scroll down. Think of either a man’s/woman’s name that begins with the last letter in the animals name Almost there…….. Now count out the letters in that name on the fingers of the hand you are not using to scroll down. Take the hand you counted with and hold it out in front of you at face level . Look at your palm very closely and notice the lines in your hand . Do the lines take the form of the first letter in the persons name?! Of course not…… Now TAKE THAT HAND AND smack the shit out of yourself, get a life!
By Eliza Dodd on 10/28/2008 8:39 pm
Irish Eyes NY
Eliza Dud: Well, sweetie that was very good, did your teacher help you with that one? Since you have the IQ of an eggplant, I’m sure you got help somewhere in order to put 5 or more words into a sentence. Now, honey——just hop onto your tricycle and get yourself a life.
By Irish Eyes NY on 10/29/2008 8:48 am
Eliza Dodd
OBAMA is WINNING ! Hows That sentence sweetie ???wink wink !!!
By Eliza Dodd on 10/29/2008 8:59 am
Irish Eyes NY
Eliza Dud: That’s still only a 3 word sentence, honey, can’t you do better than that???? And as they say “It ain’t over till the fat lady sings”
By Irish Eyes NY on 10/29/2008 11:02 am
f p
Ok now when are they going after those bastards that caused the financial mess we’re in at present. They need a longer time that 4.5 in the slam IMO.
By f p on 10/24/2008 12:51 pm
Elizabeth Bennett
Why is this story being reported as being about a movie star’s ex? [If not in the text, certainly in the headline.] Why not just report it as a con man gets sentenced? I agree with Frank that I would like to see some of the money guys sentenced, but I don’t see any practical way to do that. Too many people were in on it. We don’t have enough prison cells!
By Elizabeth Bennett on 10/24/2008 4:01 pm
Sandbee (FB) 54
Right, they would just cost us more money building prisons. My husband has had the thought for years that we should go back to the idea of putting them on an island somewhere, see if they survive, and not with a TV crew.
By Sandbee (FB) 54 on 10/25/2008 9:56 am
f p
And I have just the right island—Candelmas Is. in the the South Polar sea. —that ought to be a lovely place for a vacation for them—harshest climate in the world short of the South Pole
By f p on 10/26/2008 1:51 pm
Sandbee (FB) 54
We were always thinking of the hot places but I like your idea better.
By Sandbee (FB) 54 on 10/26/2008 5:02 pm