Raffaello Follieri Sentenced to 4 1/2 Years in Prison

For a few years, Raffaello Follieri decided to dress up as a priest and swindle a bunch of people out of millions of dollars — his payoff finally came today. Times reports:

A would-be Italian playboy who dated the Hollywood star Anne Hathaway was sentenced last night to four and a half years in jail for cheating investors out of millions of dollars to keep up with his celebrity friends.
Passing sentence yesterday, Judge John Koeltl said that the crime was aggravated by the fact that Follieri had masqueraded as a representative of a religious organisation and spent his criminal proceeds on “lavish personal expenses”.
He imposed forfeiture of $2.44 million of Follieri’s property and said that he would consider ordering restitution to the victims. “The defendant will suffer not only a substantial term of imprisonment but also financial ruin,” the judge said.

In retrospect, Raffaello went from living a billionaire lifestyle and seeing Anne Hathaway naked whenever he damn-well pleased, to jacking off into a napkin for 4 years while trying to preserve his anus’ virginity. If that isn’t the epitome of success, I don’t know what is.