Darla Khazei, PacificCoastNews.com

Anne Hathaway is seen here greeting her public outside the Ed Sullivan Theater on Tuesday night after she taped an episode for the ‘Late Show with David Letterman’. Anne is currently in New York on the promotion circuit for her new movie ‘Rachel Getting Married’. And from the sounds of it, the success of her movie is not the only thing putting a smile on this pretty fashionista’s face, as Anne, and the rest of the world, has just received news that her former ex Raffaello Follieri has received four and a half years in prison for charges on cheating and fraud against investors for millions of dollars. Her ex had claimed that he had Vatican connections and this was enabling him to purchase Roman Catholic Church property at bargain basement prices. The number of charges against Anne’s ex were numerous, and at the time, there were even rumors that Anne had something to do with his arrest, and landing him back on US soil for the arrest. It seemed a little too coincidental that his arrest and their breakup happened almost simultaneously. Nonetheless, he was charged and sentenced and had a few words left to say to the public before he was carted off to the clink:

I dishonoured my family name and embarrassed the church I love. I’ll never be able to wash away that stain, and I will have to live with it the rest of my life. I just hope someday those who have been hurt by my actions can forgive me.

And, given that he sounds a little reticent and guilty over the matter, and that the charges against him were huge and numerous, it sounds like a plea may have been copped because I think many were surprised that he only ended up with four and a half years. I mean, claiming that you are the Vatican’s chief financial officer must have some repercussions. Money that he laundered was not used for charity purposes as was his original defense, and it has come to light that he spent it on personal expenses, flowers, cosmetics, clothes, expensive wine and meals, yacht rentals, a $37,000 a month condo, vacations, and presents for both his parents and Anne. Yet despite all this, he only gets 4 ½ years. Though Anne may be smiling over revenge, she must be a little bitter about that outcome. Hopefully though for her sake, this will all be behind her in a New York minute.

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