Anne Hathaway’s folks told her to get smart about Raffaello
Anne Hathaway’s family tried to warn her about her ex-boyfriend, alleged con man Raffaello Follieri.
Before Follieri’s arrest on fraud charges last week, Hathaway’s father, Gerard, a lawyer, encouraged her to move out of the couple’s Olympic Tower apartment, sources tell us.
“Her father’s not stupid,” says the source. “He and Anne’s mother always had their suspicions about Raffaelo.”
Anne was reluctant to believe the worst. Still, she may have gotten wind that the hammer was about to drop on the Italian charmer, who prosecutors allege concocted his ties to the Vatican.
“She left the country right before the feds arrested him. But she may have had some regrets about helping them,” another knowledgeable source tells us. “The night before his arrest, she had a tearful phone conversation with him.”
Hathaway’s spokesman Stephen Huvane declined to comment.
Follieri may have been a victim of his own attempts to look flush, according to sources. U.S. District Court Judge Henry B. Pittman set bail at $21 million, based on documents indicating that he had $16 million in a bank account in Monaco.
But two sources say people in law enforcement now question whether he had anything like that amount.
“He doesn’t have s- in that account,” said one insider. “Some people believe he drafted that document and hoped to have it validated by a bank officer in Monaco.”
Follieri’s lawyer, Flora Edwards, did not return a call by deadline.
Meanwhile, we hear that Follieri also clashed recently with his former lawyer, Joe Tacopina, who represented him when billionaire Ron Burkle sued him. Tacopina is heading a group of Americans trying to buy the Italian soccer team AS Roma. One source says Follieri wanted in on the deal, but Tacopina refused.
According to another source, “Raffaello claims he was instrumental in getting the deal going but Tacopina pushed him out. But Tacopina says he still owes him for his legal work.”
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