Raffaello Follieri, the alleged con man who’s been charged with 11 counts of fraud and money laundering, has been languishing in a 7½-by-8-foot cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center for a month since his arrest. To make matters worse, his ex-girlfriend Anne Hathaway refuses to speak with him, and his longtime adviser and attorney Marty Edelman may testify against him. (Not a war-time consigliere.) A friend of Follieri – he still has one, at least – tells the Daily News, “Raffaello is doing very badly. He says people are abusing him. He’s a broken man.” more ›

A friend of financier-accused grifter Rafaello Follieri thinks Anne Hathaway told what she knew to the FBI. Why? Well, in the indictment, Hathaway, who had dated Follieri for years up until a week before he was arrested and jailed (he hasn't come up with the $21 million bail yet), is identified as his former girlfriend, and the friend goes on to tell the Daily News, "I think that in return for her cooperation, the feds held off on arresting Follieri until she was out of the country." Or maybe the feds read the gossip pages too! more ›

The tabloids are milking the schadenfreude out of the scandal surrounding Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend Rafaello Follieri, who’s been charged with 12 counts of fraud for allegedly conning investors out of millions by posing as the Vatican’s financial manager, promising that his connections would let him up snatch up Church property for a song. Bail was set at $21 million, with the judge requiring an additional guarantee from five financially responsible persons. more ›