Anne Hathaway dumped her Italian beau of four years, Raffaello Follieri, over the phone, Vanity Fair reports.

Follieri - who is currently jailed and under investigation for wire fraud and money laundering - broke down in tears as the 25-year-old Get Smart actress delivered the news on June 23.

“You were the love of my life,” Hathaway told Follieri, according to Vanity Fair. “I’ll always love you. You know that, baby.”

Just six hours later, Follieri was arrested. It was rumored that Hathaway was cooperating with federal investigators, although her spokesman declined to comment.

At the time of the split, the 30-year-old Italian businessman (whose scheming allegedly consisted of convincing rich investors to buy Vatican properties, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office) was staying in his parents’ spare bedroom in the Trump Tower in NYC.

It was a step down from the $37,000-per-month duplex apartment he shared with Hathaway. The actress footed the bill for the apartment for four months, the magazine reports.


Hathaway was once obsessed with Follieri, according to Vanity Fair.

“It was totally love at first sight… He is sooo good-looking… He looks like a god,” Hathaway said after meeting Follieri in 2004.

The magazine said their relationship was passionate initially; Follieri was stubborn, Hathaway was a drama queen. They often greeted each other with,
“Hey, baby.”

But things quickly went downhill as Follieri’s legal troubles grew earlier this year. (He was also arrested in April for writing a bad check worth $215,000.) Sources told Usmagazine.com “all the shady stuff was too much.”

The FBI confiscated the actress’ diaries in July as part of their ongoing investigation of Follieri, New York’s Daily News reports.

ollieri now faces life in prison, and Hathaway is moving on.

“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 - quoting humorist Will Rogers - told Britain’s Independent earlier this month.

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