Anne Hathaway’s former beau Raffaello Follieri was sentenced to four and a half years in prison today after pleading guilty in September for wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy after he pretended to be the CFO of the Vatican. He stole millions from investors. In addition to serving four and a half years in the concrete resort, Raffy also got 3 years of supervised probation. He will start serving his sentence today.

Newly single Anne Hathaway says her June split from Italian beau Raffaello Follieri – currently under investigation for wire fraud – made her stronger.

?”The worst thing that happens to you can be the best thing for you, if you don’t let it get the best of you,” Hathaway, 25, says – quoting humorist Will Rogers – in Britain’s The Independent.?

The break up didn’t turn her off from marriage.??

“I’ve always wanted a family,” she explains. “I’m not one of those people who says, ‘What’s the point of marriage?’”

Her goal???

To “find someone you can be yourself around, who makes you laugh, who challenges you in a good way, and where you just speak off each other,” she says.??

“My parents have been married more than 25 years, with all the glory and all the pain you can imagine, but they’ve stayed together,” Hathaway continues. “I want a strong marriage like that.

The Get Smart star may be ready to date again — but don’t expect to see her with a co-star.

??”I try not to date where I work,” she says. “It makes life easier. Besides, the possibility has never really arisen.”

But she’s keeping her options open.??

“I don’t say no to anybody,” she says, “because I’d hope that people wouldn’t say no to me because I’m an actor – but they’d have to be a pretty extraordinary.”??

For now, Hathaway says she’s “just a person living my life. I don’t take myself too seriously, to be honest. It just seems silly, because if I thought about it too much, all I could say is, ‘Why me?’”?

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How long will it be until Anne Hathaway’s naked photos surface on the net?

Not too long, according to Gawker.com. “We’ll give it another two weeks or so.”

Hathaway, 25, has been the subject of non-stop tabloid coverage following her recent breakup with scam artist Raffaelo Follieri of Italy. Follieri, 30, was arrested in June for fraud.

But it appears Hathaway’s real problems could be just around the corner.

According to the Enquirer, Follieri had reportedly taken several nude photos of Hathaway, Gawker writes. The piece de resistance of which is a prized and “sizzling” photo of her in black fishnet stockings, a garter belt and bustier that completely exposes her top portion. Follieri is believed to have paid a famous photographer to take that picture.

Hathaway’s brother tried to recover the pictures from a storage unit, only to find out that the FBI had beaten him to it the day before, according to Gawker.

The photographer is believed to have copies and it is questionable whether Follieri’s friends do as well.

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Anne Hathaway could be drawn deeper into the fraud scandal of her ex-boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, now that FBI agents have seized the actress’ private journals, sources tells us.

The agents confiscated the intimate diaries of the “Devil Wears Prada” star during another raid on Follieri’s $37,500-a-month Trump Tower pad, according to the sources. Seeking to bolster their case against the dashing Italian, who has been charged with 11 counts of fraud and money laundering, agents are also said to have seized photos of Follieri with Bill and Hillary Clinton, Pope John Paul II, and John and Cindy McCain. Also confiscated were documents, watches, a Tiffany clock, an antique Bible and personal photos of Follieri and Hathaway.

Hathaway, who has been charged with no crime, has cut off all contact with the 30-year-old Follieri, say sources. While Follieri recently had associates return to Hathaway a $250,000 abstract painting that had hung in his pad, “she’s changed her numbers so he can’t reach her,” says a friend. “Raffaello has been trying to call her all the time.”

Hathaway’s rep did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.

The disconnect notice is bound to darken the 7½-by-8-foot Metropolitan Correctional Center cell where Follieri has been held since his June 24 arrest, which stemmed from his bid to sell Catholic Church properties.

“Raffaello is doing very badly,” says a friend of Follieri, who was hospitalized for an anxiety attack the day he was locked up. “He says people are abusing him. He’s a broken man.”

According to friends, he still wonders whether Hathaway, 25, helped put him behind bars. “He was in Europe, working on a deal,” says a source. “He didn’t have to come back to New York. He knew he was being investigated. But she kept calling him, saying they needed to resolve their future. A few days after his return, he was arrested.”

Last week, prosecutors said Follieri was considering a plea deal. “It’s very fishy,” says one source. “He hasn’t even been indicted yet, and already they’re talking a plea? But he may have no money and the feds may have him so scared that he thinks this is his best shot.”

Follieri is also said to feel abandoned by his longtime adviser, lawyer Marty Edelman. According to a source, Edelman has refused to confer with Follieri’s current attorney, Flora Edwards, telling her he may be a witness should the case go to trial.

A lawyer for Edelman declined to comment.

Edwards says Follieri “is holding up reasonably well” in “a difficult and hostile environment.” She won’t say whether he’s mulling a plea, however, adding that “I have no information that Mary Edelman is a witness and he has not refused to speak with me.”

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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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HOW EXACTLY did the feds “Get Smart” about Anne Hathaway’s breakup with her troubled boyfriend?

A pal of jailed wheeler-dealer Raffaello Follieri suspects the starlet spoke with the FBI shortly before they arrested her ex for an alleged $6 million con job.
“It makes sense,” the friend said. “She’s referred to as his former girlfriend in the indictment even though her spokesman never confirmed they broke up.”
Hathaway, who is not identified by name in the criminal complaint, split with Follieri shortly before his arrest last week. He is charged with posing as an agent of the Vatican to fleece investors out of millions.

“I think that in return for her cooperation, the feds held off on arresting Follieri until she was out of the country,” the friend said.

Hathaway’s camp has declined to comment on Follieri’s legal troubles. The Italian businessman faces up to 20 years in federal prison if he’s convicted of wire-fraud and money-laundering charges.

The 29-year-old businessman is accused of living the high life after he allegedly duped investors into pouring millions of dollars into a phony real-estate scheme.

Follieri, a fixture at Hathaway’s side for years, remains locked up on $21 million bail.

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ANNE Hathaway got smart in time to dump her boyfriend, Rafaello Follieri, before he was arrested this week for fraud – but now the star should step up and take care of the former couple’s 2-year-old chocolate labrador, Esmeralda.

“Could Anne Hathaway please come get her dog?” asked a friend of Follieri.

The pooch is being cared for by Follieri’s mother, Anna, who’s here from Italy for cancer treatment and living in his $40,000-a-month Trump Tower penthouse.

While Follieri is in jail and unable to make bail, “he can’t afford a dog walker, and his mom has cancer,” said our source. “I feel bad for the dog. She’s a beautiful, sweet dog who probably greeted the FBI agents with her tail wagging.”

Trump Tower is a new address for Follieri. On March 5, after Page Six had run some stories about the high-living Italian, we were invited to lunch with him and Hathaway – and Esmeralda. They were then living in a duplex at Olympic Tower.

The apartment, owned by a South African couple, was sparsely furnished. Follieri told us his Sicilian chef had emigrated to New York to cook in a new restaurant, but the eatery wasn’t yet ready to open.

A butler served delicious salad, pasta and fish, plus dessert, as Hathaway graciously talked about her career and her preference to move downtown together. Follieri smiled and mostly kept his mouth shut. Now he’s downtown – but alone and in the clink.

Meanwhile, in this Sunday’s Page Six Magazine, Joshua David Stein, who has been researching Follieri for weeks, reports that Vincent Ponte, described as a “real estate developer,” is listed as a vice president of the Follieri Group.

“Vincent had another job too: Along with his father, Angelo, he owned V. Ponte & Sons, one of the largest waste management firms in New York,” Stein reports.

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Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri was hospitalized for a severe sinus infection following his New York court appearance on fraud and money laundering charges, his rep tells PEOPLE.

“He had an episode in the courtroom which lead to him being transported to a nearby hospital for evaluation,” rep Melanie A. Bonvicino says.

The Italian businessman, 29, is in stable condition and undergoing treatment.

“I do not have the specifics on what type of treatment at this time but [it’s] for a severe sinus infection,” says Bonvicino.

Follieri, who was arrested at 6 a.m. Tuesday at his apartment in the Trump Tower, had tested positive for opiates from a urine sample that morning, said the prosecutor.

According to his rep, Follieri has had “a sinus infection for the past three weeks. In the courtroom they said that he had tested positive for opiates, and it’s not the case. He was on a prescription and cough medicine from his doctors that contained codeine before retiring to bed that night. Therefore that is what his doctors told me caused his urine test to be positive.”

At the hearing, the judge set a $21 million bail for Follieri, who faces a dozen counts of wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering, and placed him under home detention.

Follieri, who split with Hathaway, 25, earlier this month, has yet to set bail. “We are working vigorously to fulfill the requirements of the bail package,” says Bonvichino.

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The issue features the “Get Smart” hottie on the cover and has her gushing about Raffaello Follieri – her ex-boyfriend who was busted for wire fraud and money laundering yesterday – and how they’re house-hunting. “I enjoy living with him so much, but we’re in his apartment – and we’ve decided that it’s time to find where our home is going to be,” she said. “If we get a house as opposed to an apartment, the first two floors will be a bit more traditional for him to be able to receive people, and the top two floors will be whatever I want.” She adds that there’s no pressure about marriage because, “we’re quite happy . . . I’m [not] sweating out a proposal.” The couple split last week. Friends tell Page Six, “She’s heartbroken. She was really in love with him.”

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ANNE Hathaway was staying at the Gramercy Park Hotel yesterday while her boyfriend of four years, Raffaello Follieri, has a new rental apartment at Trump Tower. But there was word the recently split couple were planning to have dinner together at Cipriani. “It’s very amicable. He still cares for her very much,” said a source. The two were staying mum on their breakup while Hathaway continued making TV appearances hawking her new movie, “Get Smart.” Melanie Bonvicino, a flack for Follieri, said the Italian businessman is “angered” by “repeated mischaracterizations” of their split. She told The Post’s Dan Mangan: “It is worth noting, as you continue to attempt to scandalize a respected businessman and philanthropist, that the Follieri Foundation has vaccinated hundreds of children in Nicaragua and Honduras to date, in addition to recently rebuilding an orphanage in Brazil.”

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