WOULD YOU LIKE SOME (ROTTEN) CHEESE WITH THAT WHINE? "Raffaello Follieri, the Italian businessman who dated actress Anne Hathaway, says his health has deteriorated because of 'unspeakably unsanitary' jail conditions and wants to be moved. … Since he was sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison for fraud last month, he has had to contend with rotten food, foul odors and unclean toilets and as a result is running a fever and has blood in his urine, according to a letter from his lawyer made available on Wednesday."
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• This video of a cat trying to fit in a yogurt box is strangely captivating. [CityRag]
• Jennifer Aniston is reportedly pregnant with twins. Of course she is. [Yeeeah]
• Paris Hilton lost last night's presidential election. How did this happen?! [PS]
• Anne Hathaway's new boyfriend is about 500 steps up from her last. [INO]
• Hollywood's newest love muffin, Robert Pattinson: “I always get carried away when I’m kissing people. I just go nuts.” Swoon! [ICYDK]
• Tom Cruise plans to ruin Charlize Theron. [DListed]
Jennifer Lopez deserves your respect. Here you were, thinking that she was just some middling pop star who's made a career out of having a big booty and being a mediocre triple threat, and then she turns it all around by showing her true face as one of the most devious con artists since that guy who dated Anne Hathaway.
How, you may ask, has J.Lo managed to swindle big bucks from networks like NBC and TLC?
POOR LITTLE RAFFAELLO GETS FOUR AND A HALF YEARS "Anne Hathaway's ex-boyfriend was sentenced to four and a half years behind bars Thursday for wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. Raffaello Follieri, 30, only wanted to serve three years, according to papers submitted by his lawyer in a Manhattan federal court earlier this month."
Upon exclusively viewing the CW's Stylista — a reality show featuring 11 contestants competing for The Greatest Prize Ever (and a job at Elle magazine) — we discovered the premise is quite obviously based on The Devil Wears Prada: Incompetent people who have no business being involved in the fashion industry? Check. Frightening dictator (fashion news director Anne Slowey)? Check. Inane tasks that have seemingly nothing to do with fashion? Check. The difference: We wanted Anne Hathaway to succeed in the movie; in the reality TV version, we kind of hope everyone fails miserably. CONTINUED »
ANNE IN WONDERLAND "Anne Hathaway … has signed for a role in Alice in Wonderland, which Tim Burton is directing for Disney. … The movie, which stars Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, will use a combination of live action and performance-capture technology to tell the classic Lewis Carroll story. Hathaway is playing the White Queen, a benevolent monarch who is deposed and banished by her sister, the Red Queen, who has an affinity for crying out, 'Off with their heads!'"
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The always well-spoken and put-together Anne Hathaway stopped in to chat with David Letterman last night about her new movie, Rachel Getting Married, and — oh yeah — her con artist of an ex-boyfriend. Despite Dave's peppering tactics, Anne managed to make it through the interview with some humor and without sounding like too much of an ass. Sure, she gets a little sarcastic from time to time, but she actually speaks about the situation without the typical "no comment." Paris, are you taking notes?
• Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox holding hands. Who didn't see that coming? [PS]
• Eva Mendes has had sex in all 50 states. Yay, America! [Yeeeah]
• Anne Hathaway secretly smokes, according to a random source. Wow, HUGE scandal. [INO]
• A lovely definition of The Shocker. [CityRag]
• Gwyneth Paltrow insists she can't diet, and it was really challenging to lose the extra 20 pregnancy pounds. Poor thing. [DListed]
• Lance Bass is considering adoption. What a lucky child. [ICYDK]
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It's official: Anne Hathaway's ex, Raffaello Follieri, was sentenced today to over four years in prison, starting Oct. 3, for wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. He's been in jail since June, unable to make his $21 million bail.
'I knew what I was doing was wrong,' he told U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl in Manhattan as he stood in a loose-fitting prison uniform. He has been in jail since his June 24 arrest, unable to make $21 million bail.
What, his BFF Donald Trump didn't help him make bail earlier this summer? Poor guy.
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The lovely Anne Hathaway graces the cover of the newest issue of W magazine, further cementing why we love her: She's like the best friend everyone's had at some point in their lives, and you can't help but want to just give her a hug. She declined to give details on the arrest of ex Raffaello Follieri, but she did speak about what she was going through at the time (while, the interviewer notes, fighting back tears):
It’s a situation where the rug was pulled out from under me all of a sudden. But just as suddenly, my friends threw another rug back under me. One said, ‘Go stay at my house.’ And Steve Carell [her Get Smart costar] stepped up for me during an interview when someone asked a question [about it]. He said, ‘At some point you’re going to have to talk about this time in your life. You don’t have to do it this week. I’ll take care of anything that comes your way.’
I’ve been shown such kindness. Not everyone gets that. A lot of people go through tough times alone.
For more photos from her W spread, click through.
Italian grifter Raffaello Follieri is reportedly close to reaching a plea deal in his federal criminal case. According to the Wall Street Journal, Follieri will plead guilty to fraud and money laundering, charges for which he could face four to five years in prison.
You'll recall that just two years ago, Follieri was living a life of milk and honey in WASPy yachts and luxury Manhattan apartments. He even got himself a famous girlfriend, actress Anne Hathaway, despite looking like a damn Disney-movie villain.
Graydon Carter has such a hard on right now, as Vanity Fair releases its most Vanity Fair-esque piece to date on the defrauded, jet-setting Raffaello Follieri. What makes the seven-page article so perfectly VF, with its mix of celebrity and scandal and a dash of eau de creep?
We admit to loving Anne Hathaway, but the quotes she gave about Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention were a little bizarre. ("I was afraid to trust him. … I can't deny how I feel about you, Barack Obama.") Does she know that running for public office is not the same as attempting to be her next boyfriend?
You know why employees shouldn’t keep blogs? Because inevitably their employers will find them, read them, and use them against their underlings. It’s the same reasoning why starlets shouldn’t keep diaries: Because federal officials might raid the home of your scandal-plagued ex-boyfriend, confiscate your journals, and then use your words to prosecute him for fraud. Such is the new saga for Anne Hathaway.
A nosy Village Voice scribe stumbled across a large bundle of Miramax head Harvey Weinstein's garbage whilst in Tribeca the other night, and then he wrote about it for his paper. Besides making it abundantly clear that few scripts pass muster with the notoriously prickly and prickish Weinstein, the refuse also revealed that the mogul is quite a difficult man to get on the phone. After the jump, Harv's "need to call" list.
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Donald Trump always likes a good feud, especially when the matter at hand has absolutely nothing to do with him. His latest victim is Anne Hathaway, who we imagine has enough to deal with at the moment. Evidently Donald is offended by Anne's lack of loyalty to con artist Raffaello Follieri (who spent the majority of his weasel-y time holed up in one of Trump's residential buildings), and he's telling everyone about it:
She hasn't remained very loyal to him, has she? So when he had plenty of money, she liked him, but then after that, not as good, right?
Well, you would know all about women only liking men for money, wouldn't you, Donald?
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• Guess who's back — and going to Hollywood. [DListed]
• New York City is aiming to have every resident in the Bronx tested for HIV. Good luck with that. [ABC]
• Someone needs to program the Posh robot to clean up after herself. [INO]
• According to Kimora Lee Simmons, being a fabulous mother demands $480,000 in child support. [ICYDK]
• Poor little Raffaello: Anne Hathaway's ex has to spend his birthday behind bars instead of jetting away to Italy. [Us]
GOOD TIMING "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."
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