You know what I lay in bed worrying about? What does Donald Trump think of my relationship? Whenever I’m not sure what to do, I remind myself of the letters printed on a bracelet I wear around my wrist: WWDTD? What would Donald Trump do? Would he fight over who has to do the dishes? Would he think it’s okay if I withhold sex as punishment?

Luckily Anne Hathaway doesn’t have to wonder, because the Donald has felt it appropriate to throw his weight behind ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri, and call Anne out for leaving the criminal sleaze bag.

Donald Trump may have a new sparring partner on his hands.

The “Apprentice” head honcho has raised a critical eyebrow at “Get Smart’s” Anne Hathaway for dumping her boyfriend, and Trump Tower resident, Raffaello Follieri, days before he was arrested and charged with fraud.

“She hasn’t remained very loyal to him, has she?” Trump told “Access Hollywood’s” Billy Bush. “So when he had plenty of money, she liked him, but then after that, not as good, right?”

Trump said this week, prior to Follieri being taken into custody and his bail set at $21 million, Trump Tower has been surrounded by media.

[From Access Hollywood]

Yeah, what a terrible person Anne Hathaway is for not sticking around once it became clear her boyfriend really was a scumbag criminal. So far there’s no way to know exactly how much Anne Hathaway knew, and if she realized Follieri was committing a crime. I’m guessing she probably was aware of it on some level but deluded herself.

On the other hand, Donald Trump does have a little bit of a point. Which makes me pretty damn mad. Because I should never have to write a sentence like that. The Daily News says that Follieri’s pals all think Hathaway ratted him out to the FBI before he was arrested. If so, she obviously knew some useful stuff. I’m guessing she broke up with him because of her own PR needs. Though really, that would have been a great reason to break up with the guy a long time ago. I hate it when Donald Trump is right.

It looks like Anne Hathaway dumped her boyfriend of four years at just the right time. Italian “businessman” Raffaello Follieri, 29, was just arrested yesterday for charges of money laundering and wire fraud. He also told a whopper of a lie to an undercover agent that he was CFO of the Vatican and could get church land cheap:

Manhattan prosecutors say an Italian businessman who has been romantically linked to movie star Anne Hathaway has been arrested on wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering charges.

Raffaello Follieri is due in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday.

He is accused of falsely telling an investor that he had been appointed as the chief financial officer of the Vatican.

Authorities say he claimed that, as a result of that connection, he and others could obtain properties of the Catholic church in the United States at a substantial discount to fair market value.

Follieri runs a Catholic charity that claims its purpose is vaccinating children in the third world, but it sounds like it was just a front for a money laundering scheme. He was sued in 2007 and accused of embezzling millions from a charity organization he ran with billionaire Ron Burkle. That suit was settled out of court for a rumored $1.3 million. Follieri’s next brush with the law was after he bounced a check for $215,000 in March. The charges were dropped when he eventually made good on the funds.

Hathaway has not confirmed the split personally or through her reps, although even People magazine claimed to have a source stating it was true. She said on an episode of The View that aired last Thursday that “I’m kind of somber today.” When asked by Joy Behar if she had mood swings she said “Let’s not go there.”

It sounds like Hathaway’s personal wealth would have been at risk if she stayed with this creepy charmer. Her film Get Smart ruled the box office its opening weekend with $38 million in gross revenue. Her career can only rise, especially now that she’s gotten rid of the dead weight.

Anne Hathaway and Raffaello Follieri are shown at the Waverly Inn on 3/9/08. She is also shown in NY on 6/17 (in the leather pants) and 6/19, thanks to WENN.

Actress Anne Hathaway, 25, has finally broken up with Italian businessman and accused embezzler Raffaello Follieri, 29, according to the Daily Mail. Hathaway had been with Follieri for four years and through several business scandals.

Follieri’s history of fraud
In 2007, Follieri was sued by billionaire Rob Burkle, who accused him of embezzling corporate money from a charity he set up with Hathaway. He was said to have used the funds to finance private jets, a penthouse, exclusive hotels and restaurants, and generally keeping a lavish lifestyle for himself and Hathaway. He settled that suit in April for around $1.3 million.

In March, he bounced a check for $215,000, but the charges were dropped when he eventually made good on the funds.

His charity, The Follieri Foundation, is currently under investigation by the NY State Attorney General’s office for reasons the state will not disclose. The Follieri Foundation has failed to file required tax forms and is most likely being audited for their financial record keeping. The charity provides vaccinations to children in the third world and most likely keeps Follieri in the lifestyle he’s stolen. When asked for comment, Hathaway’s rep said that she is no longer on the board of the Foundation and is not familiar with the investigation.

Hathaway is said to finally have come to her senses after the latest scandal broke. Her married Get Smart co-star, Steve Carrell, who’s kissing she jokingly praised in a recent interview, is said to have lent a supportive ear on set and to have helped her make the decision to finally break up with the creep:

The Devil Wears Prada actress Anne Hathaway put on a brave face at her latest film premiere last night after breaking up with long-term boyfriend Raffaello Follieri, the Mail Online can reveal.

The 25-year-old movie star ended her four year relationship with Italian-American businessman, 29, over the weekend.

The Brokeback Mountain star’s decision follows over a year of scandal linked to Follieri.

Last week, it was reported his charity Follieri Foundation, which funded vaccination programmes in developing countries, was being investigated by the New York State Attorney General’s Office.

An insider tells the Mail Online that Hathaway made the painful decision to end their relationship because of the effects his controversial business dealings could have on her career….

During the making of Get Smart earlier last summer, Hathaway formed a friendship with co-star Steve Carell, who lent her a supportive ear during her problems with Follieri.

‘She seemed to really be enjoying her freedom, and making new friends in L.A., especially Steve.’

Hathaway’s split from Follieri may mean she finally moves to Hollywood, after years of insisting she would remain on the east coast to stay close to her beau.

A pal said: ‘She seemed to really be enjoying her freedom, and making new friends in L.A., especially Steve.’

[From The Daily Mail]

Anne had an original interview in last week’s Star Magazine, and when asked if marriage with Follieri was “in the cards,” she answered:

“It is in the cards. Absolutely. Just not yet. I’ve always wanted a family. I’m not one of those people who says, ‘What’s the point of marriage? My parents have been married 25 years, in all the glory and all the pain that you can imagine, but they’ve stayed together. I want a strong marriage like that.” [From Star Magazine, print edition, June 16, 2008]

It sounds like Anne realized that Raffaello wasn’t the guy who would be able to weather life’s storms with her. Especially from whichever Federal prison he may end up in.

Anne Hathaway is shown at the Get Smart premiere in London last night, thanks to WENN. Raffaello and Anne are shown at the Oscars on 2/24/08.

I often think that I don’t really like Anne Hathaway. Probably because she has such a shady boyfriend. Though she often seems nice, she also seems a little lacking in personality. Though she could just APPEAR that way because she’s one of the few Hollywood starlets that doesn’t go out, get wasted, and act like a fool every other night. So by comparison, she’s a lot more sedate. But I can’t help but like anyone who compares making out with Steve Carell to “the yummiest lollipop.”

Hathaway is making the rounds on the media circuit, promoting her upcoming film Get Smart with Carell and Duane “The Rock” Johnson. She was asked what it was like filming the movie almost entirely with men – and how she felt about getting intimate with Carell.

Before the movie ends, the two of them become drawn to each other emotionally and physically. That leads to the inevitable question: What was it like to “make out” with Carell?

“Making out with him is like the yummiest lollipop,” says Hathaway who is a big fan of Carell’s TV series, The Office. “You are so full of it,” protests Carell, who’s sitting next to her. “Dipped in sunshine!” Hathaway continues. “Stop it!” insists Carell, who’s now starting to break up. “And wrapped around in a masculine wrapper,” she adds serenely. “That’s the only way I can think to describe it.”

Actually, Hathaway has more to say about these amorous scenes. It seems she wasn’t at all well at the time. “OK, so you’ve got to hear this,” she chortles. It seems a certain contact lens solution had ended up giving her conjunctivitis.

“And I had a sinus infection at the same time, so I had to go up to Steve — my eye is red, puffy and dripping green, I am just snotty — and I’m like, ‘Come here!’ The worst thing was we didn’t know I had conjunctivitis at the time, so I had to call our producer, Alex Gartner, that night and say, ‘You might want to let Steve know I had pink eye and my tears kind of got in my mouth, so he might want to worry about that.’”

[From Canada.com]

Wow, that’s incredibly gross. As flattering as Hathaway is about making out with Carell, I can’t help but doubt that he felt the same about her. What with the snot and the pink eye and all. Hathaway claims that the final version of the make out scene came out “very glamorous.” They must have some really good editors at their studio.

Here’s Steve Carell, Brad Bird and Anne Hathaway at the Academy Awards on February 24th. Images thanks to WENN.

Anne Hathaway’s boyfriend Raffaello Follieri seems like he may very well be a totally skeevy jerk. Rumors about his terrible money mismanagement have been circulating for years, and he was sued several years ago by L.A. billionaire Ron Burkle, who claimed Follieri mismanaged funds meant for his charitable foundation and instead used the money to finance his lavish lifestyle with Hathaway.

Follieri settled the lawsuit earlier this year, and was then arrested for writing a bad check – for $215,000. Now that he’s gotten that little issue taken care of, New York’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating the children’s charity Follieri runs – for a plethora of financial misdeeds.

Cuomo’s investigators in recent weeks served subpoenas seeking financial documents from the Follieri Foundation, which is headed by Hathaway’s beau, 29-year-old Italian businessman Raffaello Follieri, the AG’s office confirmed yesterday. Cuomo’s office refused to reveal why it was eyeing the Manhattan-based charity, which says its programs include vaccinating Third World children.

Confirmation of the probe came after Cuomo’s office was asked whether it was aware that the foundation might have failed to file tax-disclosure forms required of nonprofit groups. A check of an online database that collects the “990″ IRS forms showed that the Follieri Foundation is required to file the form, yet has never done so.

Hathaway, who also starred in “The Princess Diaries,” served on the foundation’s board until at least last year, when she traveled to Central America with Follieri for a charity-funded vaccination program. “She was on the board, but is no longer,” Hathaway’s spokesman said. “I don’t remember exactly when she ceased to be a board member.” Asked whether Hathaway, 25, knew about the probe and its focus, he said, “Since she is no longer associated with the foundation, why would you expect her to be familiar with all of this?”

Follieri’s spokeswoman, Melanie Bonvicino, said, “Raffaello Follieri and his attorney, Cyrus Vance [Jr.], have been cooperating fully with the Attorney General’s Office to satisfy their routine inquiry. Furthermore, Mr. Follieri looks forward to concluding this matter in a timely and expeditious manner . . . so that he may continue to fulfill his ongoing philanthropic endeavors worldwide.”

[From the New York Post]

Given Follieri’s excessively long record of financial misdeeds, it seems perfectly likely that he’s done something illegal with his charitable foundation. He always manages to buy himself out of his troubles, which is odd because you’d think that if he had that money, he should have just done the right thing in the first place. Which makes it seem like he’s not simply bad at managing money and/or making some dumb financial choices or mistakes. It seems like he’s trying to swindle people. Follieri and Hathaway have been dating since 2004, and there are no signs that she’s wising up to this guy.

Here’s Anne Hathaway and Raffaello Follieri at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on March 13th. Images thanks to Splash.

29 year-old Actress Anne Hathaway’s boyfriend, Italian cad Raffaello Follieri, won’t be charged for writing a $250,000 bad check in March. The guy he wrote the check to has dropped the charges after he eventually got paid by Follieri.

Last year Follieri was sued for $55 million by billionaire Ron Burkle for spending company money from a charity he set up with Hathaway. Burkle accussed Follieri of “wilfully and systematically misappropriating” around $1.5 million to keep Hathway in a lavish lifestyle that included private jets, a penthouse apartment, and five star restaurants and hotel stays.

Follieri settled that lawsuit last month for around $1.3 million.

He may be in the clear, but this probably won’t be the last time this guy is shady with money. Bang! Showbiz notes that he’s been dating 25 year-old Hathaway for four years and that she said “I love Raffaello with everything, and I don’t know how I could ever be with anyone else, ever.” Open your eyes, girl. You’re a beautiful successful actress and deserve an honest devoted man. Follieri looks charming like a snake while it circles its prey.

[Story details from Bang! Showbiz found on AZCentral via Fark]

Anne Hathaway and Raffaello Follieri are shown at the Oscars on 2/24/08, thanks to WENN.

Anne Hathaway’s boyfriend, Italian businessman Raffaelo Follieri, is in hot water over a bad financial deal again. It seems Follieri, who is quickly becoming the new Stephen Belafonte, wrote a $250,000 check to a PR agency- and it bounced. Shad-y.

Anne Hathaway’s Italian stallion was just arrested by NYPD for allegedly bouncing a real big check his ass couldn’t cover. Follieri went willingly with police officers — no handcuffs — to work out the check fiasco. His lawyers, we hear, are sorting it out and he is now out of police custody.

Police tell us Zac Braff-alike Raffaelo Follieri was popped for one misdemeanor count of issuing a bad check — he’s still in police custody, being booked. A source tells TMZ that the check was written for around $250,000, and when the bank said insufficient funds, it wasn’t even close. Apparently, the devil wears knock-offs!

That’s hardly the end of the bad news for Follieri. A DC court just ordered him to pay almost $250,000 to a PR firm that he still owes for work they did.

[From TMZ]

If you recall, Follieri, who is quietly disliked in Hollywood for apparently living off his A-list girlfriend, was sued last May by a supermarket mogul for mishandling $55 million of his money, and was accused of mismanaging funds from a charity foundation he set up with Hathaway. Anne, honey, take my advice and run far, far away from this clown before you end up Amy Winehouse to his Blake. The dude’s bad news.

Anne Hathaway and Raffaelo Follieri are shown outside the Waverly Inn on 3/9/08, thanks to WENN.

Anne Hathaway is so darn purty at the premiere of “Becoming Jane” in New York last night. (I’m sorry for the hackneyed spelling, but it takes some of the sting out of it for me if I write it like that.) She’s the perfect mix of minx and girl next door in that tight dress. Despite how low cut it is you know she won’t ever fall out of it, and that what makes it so kick ass. Her fashion in the past has been hit or miss so it’s nice to see her get it perfectly right. I would like to see Hathaway get more attention from the paparazzi and press, but maybe she realizes what a double-edged sword that is and deliberately stays away from the Hollywood scene.

Hathaway has a clean cut image and she’s capitalizing on it with a recent endorsement campaign. The 24 year-old actress is going to represent Active Estates, a planned retirement community! I wonder how they’ll explain her involvement. Does she have a grandparent that she’ll be visiting?

Despite how drama-free she seems, there is some scandal in Hathaway’s life. Her longterm boyfriend, 28 year-old Italian property developer Raffaello Follieri, has been accused of misusing corporate funds to keep Hathaway in the lavish lifestyle to which she’s become accustomed.

Becoming Jane is the story of novelist Jane Austin’s romance with an Irishman before she became famous. It is out in theaters on August 10. Here’s the trailer. The music sounds straight out of Sense and Sensibility:

Thanks to WENN for these photos.

Sometimes I just need to escape from the ANS Circus and Britney… as does Anne Hathaway who for some reason was in People Magazine on Tuesday stating,

You know, Lindsay [Lohan] and I have a lot more in common than people think.We’ve all done things we shouldn’t, it’s just I did stuff at college, when nobody knew about it, so I’m not a saint.

Yeah sometimes I have that problem as well, so when I feel people are treating me with respect, I show my nips too! But people don’t care when I do it though. I’m just some college student too, it’s to be expected!

I found out you can only dance on so many tabletops. I got that all out of my system and now I’m healthy and I’m grounded.

I wonder what Anne’s motives are for saying this… is she sick and tired of being portrayed as the nice sweet girl and is she is tired of others getting headlines? It seems like Anne is really trying hard to dispel the “myth” that she’s a nice girl. I had to give her kudos for admitting that she battled depression because it takes a lot of humility to admit that you have an illness in Tinseltown.

But where is she going with this, “Oh I sowed my wild oats and I curse and I’m just like you” crap? To me, it sounds like she is just trying to stay relevant and newsworthy.

And I leave you with this last quote of hers:

I wasted so much time. I was just annoying and narcissistic and smelled bad.

I guess some things don’t change, Anne.

We reported back in June that Anne Hathaway revealed that co-star Stanley Tucci elbowed her repeatedly in the chest while they were filming “The Devil Wears Prada” and then blamed her for his sexual harassment.

Thanks to justaguy at Saving Face Forum for posting the picture above from September 9th, which reminds everyone what an asshole Tucci really is.

If that creep worked in an office he would get fired, demoted or sued for such obvious sexual harassment. Instead, Hathaway has to resort to telling her story to magazines. Let’s hope that Hollywood bigwigs take note of it and that his career suffers as a result.