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outrage
Andrea Peyser Sez Crockefeller's Wife Deserved to Have Kid Napped
Karl Gerhartsreiter pretended to be various important people that he was not for many years, married a woman, had a daughter, and when the wife found out he was a con man she divorced him. So he kidnapped the girl and fled Massachusetts. Naturally, this is all the wife's fault. More »
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By PareeneComment by Paul.B.Dodd: Just to play devil's advocate, it does seem very strange that this Boss woman married a man for 12 years... 10 Responses | Other threads
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fameballs
Priyantha Silva Is Crashing Parties Nonstop!
After we ran a new sighting of (we thought) dormant con man/ party crasher Priyantha Silva, the tips poured in! He's still out and impersonating Hollywood people and creeping out women, as usual: More »
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Comment by misslinda: He should join forces with Kari Ferrell, the two of them on the lamb would make a marvelous reality TV... 7 Responses | Other threads
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party crashers
Con Man Priyantha Silva Still Wants You in His Movie
Priyantha Silva is a notorious Manhattan party crasher known for posing as an editor or producer to worm his way into events and "charm" the ladies. Don't look now; he's still hovering right behind you: More »
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Comment by Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: Nothing says class like crazy eyes. 1 Responses | Other threads
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raffaello follieri
The Pope Fails To Save Raffaello Follieri
Sad news for fans of sophisticated financial swindles: Raffaello Follieri, the con man ex-boyfriend of pixie-like actress Anne Hathaway, has been sentenced to four and a half years in THE SLAMMER for defrauding various investors in his fake-ass imaginary company out of $2 million or so. The Post scored this sweet photo of Follieri, Hathaway, and the Pope, which the Italian pretty boy tried to use for sympathy. Did not work! More »
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Comment by DevilsAvocado: How did Zach Braff and Michael Jackson secure themselves a papal audience? 3 Responses | Other threads
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anne hathaway
How Jailbait Anne Hathaway Maybe Lured Her Ex Into Prison
Just a couple of months ago, Italian con-man Rafaello Follieri was all set to make a clean getaway. He knew the feds were investigating his alleged scheme to defraud investors like Bill Clinton. He was in Europe and could have stayed there. But his then-girlfriend Anne Hathaway kept calling and insisting they needed to talk about their future. Being the sort of dope who writes a $215,000 check against an account with $39 in it, and thus not realizing Hathaway was about to dump him, Follieri said, shucks, why not. A few days after his return to the states, he was in federal custody. And now his friends are wondering if it wasn't a big setup (on behalf of the feds) by an evil Hollywood actress! More » -
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Why Follieri's Scam Was Different
Joshua David Stein and Page Six Magazine got lucky this week—con man and Anne Hathaway-dater Raffaello Follieri (at left, with Bill Clinton) was arrested just as Stein's long profile of him went to press! It's an entertaining read, and while it answers lots of questions about how Follieri's big con worked, it raises a bunch too. Like how the hell did such a ridiculous scam work for so long? And how much of his own insane hype did Follieri believe? He had to be convinced of his rightness (and righteousness) to keep the lifestyle going after getting exposed so many times by the billionaires he conned. So despite lawsuits and gradual exposure as a fraud, he soldiered on.
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By PareeneComment by punchyourself: wait, isn't clinton and yucaipa's mission supposedly to develop minority owned businesses? isn't that the pr spin they were pushing?... more » | Other threads
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raffaello follieri
The Complete Raffaello Follieri Roundup
We can remember the innocent time just two weeks ago when we were urging innocent actress Anne Hathaway to dump her loser boyfriend, the swindling young con man Raffaello Follieri. How things have progressed since then! The Follieri coverage is almost too much to keep track of; after the jump, a handy link roundup of everything you need to know, up to right this minute: More »
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Comment by zibby: "So, you don't really have any money that isn't stolen and you may be going to jail? Oddly, I find... more » | Other threads
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raffaello follieri
The Follieri Crime Family
Raffaello Follieri always looked the part of the Italian aristocrat. Impeccably dressed and permanently tanned—like a more attractive version of Zach Braff—he arrived in New York as a dashing young business tycoon with inside connections to the Vatican and a plan to use those connections to make millions. In short order he landed stunning actress Anne Hathaway as a girlfriend and drew attention from some of the most powerful financial figures in America. His father was Pasquale Follieri, an Italian businessman and his son's partner in the Follieri Group, an shady concern that promised investors big returns from real estate dealings with the Catholic Church. But that's not all that Pasquale was; just two years after he helped establish his son in New York, he would be a convicted financial criminal, in an eerie foreshadowing of Raffaello's own fate: More »
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Comment by TerseNursePornstein: Sorry, but I think there's a second error, Hamilton. You wrote "a big story coming up in Page Six... more » | Other threads
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con men
How Francis X. Morrissey Swindled New York's Best and Brightest
Francis X. Morrissey Jr. was the kind of white guy rich white people could trust. He's a lawyer specializing in wills, he's old, he wears loafers. He also, incidentally, swindled New York City's rich and very rich out of millions of dollars, a number of apartments and at least one art collection. Currently, Mr. Morrissey is facing an 18-count indictment along with her nogudnik son Anthony Marhsall for financially exploiting the late Mrs. Astor in the twilight of her life. But the Park Avenue matriarch was just the one lady in a long line of very rich, very dead and very punked clients Morrissey defrauded. He's swindled artists, gallery owners and even Mother Teresa's doctor. In Morrissey's defense, he does claim to be dyslexic. Judging from his massive history of defrauding the dead, he's still a nam dab! But how did he do it? [NB: Oh yeah, and by a fluke in our legal system, he's totally innocent until proven guilty! Please insert "been accused of" between pronouns referring to Morrissey and verbs referring to him.] More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by HowDareThey: Defrauding rich people? Ha-ha. Trusting an Irishman with money? Don't even joke. more » | Other threads
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