Raffaello Follieri Investigated By New York State

"What is Anne Hathaway - who's beautiful - possibly doing with someone like that? " - a staff writer at The Hollywood Gossip

This valid question from one of our site's senior writers is regarding the great Raffaello Follieri, the actress' possible white-collar-criminal beau.

New York State Attorney General Andrew Andrew Cuomo is investigating a children's charity operated by Follieri, the New York Post reports.

In recent weeks, Cuomo's investigators served subpoenas seeking financial documents from the Follieri Foundation - headed by Raffaello Follieri, 29, a real estate magnate and longtime boyfriend of Hathaway.

The AG's office refused to reveal why it was eyeing the charity, but the probe came after Cuomo's office was asked whether it was aware that the foundation might have failed to file requisite tax-disclosure forms.

A check of an online database that collects "990" IRS forms showed that the Follieri Foundation is required to file the form, yet has never done so.

Anne Hathaway served on the foundation's board until at least last year, when she traveled to Central America along with Raffaello Follieri - who has already been arrested in April for an unrelated shady business deal - for a charity program.

"She was on the board, but is no longer," Hathaway's spokesman said. "I don't remember exactly when she ceased to be a board member."

Asked if Anne Hathaway - who stars as Agent 99 in the new movie Get Smart, knew about the probe, the spokesman did not comment.

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