Anne Hathaway's Boyfriend Arrested For Bad $250,000 Check

People:

Anne Hathaway's boyfriend of the past four years, Italian property developer Raffaelo Follieri, was arrested Thursday and charged with trying to pass a bad check, NYPD spokesman Det. Martin Speechley tells PEOPLE.

The check was for around $250,000, says TMZ.com, which first reported the arrest.

Follieri was recently ordered by a Washington, D.C., court to pay a public-relations firm $250,000 for work done on his behalf, the Web site says.

This isn't Follieri's first run of bad press. Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported on billionaire Ron Burkle's lawsuit against Follieri for allegedly squandering $1.3 million in business funds to support his extremely lavish lifestyle. Follieri denied any wrongdoing.

Read the whole story: People

Comments

[PanFx]

Oh, but isn't he handsome?

I mean, with that $200 haircut and air of self-importance, why wouldn't any woman love this guy?

Sometimes I wonder about women. Where is their brain when they pick losers like this guy? Is it possible for women to think with their crotch? I mean, why pick an ordinary, hard-working guy with reasonable ambitions when there is this handsome devil?

I swear, some women are so out of touch with their sense of reason when it comes to love and romance that it no longer seems funny.

[CountryBeforeParty]

Annie! Pay the man for ok? :-)

[JScott]

You mean people still write checks? You'd think by now he'd have a debit card.

[AgentMacGyver]

Maybe this expensive PR firm should have warned him that this would look bad.

[JJI]

Anne Hathaway - bringing the Democrats back together. Building bridges in hopes her boyfriend goes to prison forever

[ChiGuy]

Any moment now, I'll have my opening.

Anne, babe...I'm here for ya'.

[totalliberal]

C'mon. I was only a $249,986.00 short. So get real, my girlfriend is somewhat famous.

[Ramirez]

That's gotta be embarrassing.

[mediamarv]

Geez, I hate it when that happens.
And $250k checks are hard to find, let me tell you!