The Follieri Affair: Who Conned Anne Hathaway?

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

He dated a Hollywood princess and claimed to be the Vatican’s man in America. But Raffaello Follieri wasn’t all he appeared to be. He convinced some of the world’s richest people to hand over millions — before it all came crashing down. How did a charming Italian from a small town in Puglia rise to the top? Now, following deportation, is he rising again?

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0:00.0	Camp site media
0:02.9	Hello
0:05.7	What is the, what do you want me to say?
0:08.7	Oh, it's just a community.
0:11.3	Camillion weekly.
0:14.7	Back in the fall of 2008,
0:17.2	Anne Hathaway was a guest on late night with David Letterman
0:20.0	talking about her latest movie, Rachel Getting Married.
0:23.2	It's a thing stars have to do as part of their contracts with studios.
0:27.5	But the timing of this one for Hathaway was unfortunate, because she was in the middle of a devastating breakup.
0:34.7	You would think that maybe this happens more to people.
0:36.7	You meet somebody, you fall in love, and then it turns out maybe that person wasn't all that great. Maybe.
0:42.2	Yeah. Yeah. Promotional appearances don't typically get this personal. But this breakup had
0:47.7	unfortunately happened in full public view. And, well, as Hathaway said herself to Dave, it's, quote, what everyone is thinking about.
0:56.8	Did you have any hints that there was a problem?
0:59.3	You know what? I don't want to go into the specifics, but I will say that you do have to give me credit
1:03.9	because as far as relationships crashing and burning goes, come on. I did pretty great.
1:09.2	It was, yeah, it was.
1:11.1	You know. That's right.
1:12.3	Dave, never afraid of pushing an envelope pressed on.
1:15.8	And it was different from what we're accustomed to hearing, you know.
1:19.0	This was pretty unusual.
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