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How 'Vati-Con' Follieri Fooled the World

Hathaway's boy toy lived large on Other People's Money

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 8, 2008 9:02 AM CDT

(Newser) – Raffaello Follieri has been sensationalized as some new kind of con man, but Anne Hathaway’s ex is actually an old archetype, Michael Shnayerson writes in Vanity Fair. Like the heroes of 19th-century social novels, Follieri is a young man from the provinces who conquered...   Read full story »

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