Anne Hathaway has it all – a glittering movie career, a winning personality and a face that's just very slightly too big for her skull.

But there's one thing that Anne Hathaway doesn't have any more, and that's a millionaire Italian boyfriend who's been arrested for possibly telling lies about being pals with the Pope to trick other stupid millionaires into giving him truckloads of cash. She hasn't even got one of those. What an idiot.

Anyway, it seems as if Anne Hathaway bailed from her relationship with Raffaello Follieri right before he was arrested by the FBI and locked up on a $21 million bail. A lucky escape?

Not according to some friends of Follieri, who are now claiming that Anne Hathaway was the person who ratted him out to the FBI in the first place. Exciting, huh? Just imagine how much more exciting it'd be if a) we knew who Raffaello Follieri was and b) we gave a toss about Anne Hathaway.

Female celebrities love a bad boy, whether it's Barbara Windsor and Ronnie Knight, Mel B and a man who once killed a duck with a brick or Alicia Keys and every fictional boyfriend she's ever had in any of her music videos ever. 

Even Anne Hathaway loves a bad boy. True, she might appear so wholesome and perfect that if you snuck up behind her and sawed her legs off at the knees she'd bleed wires and microchips instead of sloppy knee-guts, but Anne Hathaway's relationship with shady Italian businessman Raffaello Follieri has put an end to that image.

You'll remember that Raffaello Follieri was arrested recently over suspicions that he conned several rich dimwits out of millions of dollars by telling them that he was a great friend of the Pope and that the Pope had given him a cheeky heads-up on some cheap, cheap property investment opportunities, or something. Anyway, the law is taking this arrest so seriously that Follieri is still imprisoned pending a $21 million bail.

But the big question is who got Raffaello Follieri arrested in the first place? A highly-trained team of FBI agents who'd been investigating his business dealings with the expertise accrued from investigating hundreds of similar cases over a period spanning several years? Don't be daft, it was that bloody Anne Hathaway woman, wasn't it? Or maybe not!

Anyway, that's the case put forward by some of Follieri's friends, presumably after they'd finished bombing around Lake Como on speedboats braying and complimenting each other on the pastel cardigans they'd tied around their shoulders like a gang of foppishly ineffectual superheroes. Anyway, the New York Daily News has details:

"It makes sense," the friend said. "She's referred to as his former girlfriend in the indictment, even though her spokesman never confirmed they broke up… I think that in return for her co-operation, the feds held off on arresting Follieri until she was out of the country."

It's an interesting point, isn't it? What if Anne Hathaway decided that the best way to protect her career was to leave Raffaello in the lurch and dob him in to the cops? That way Anne Hathaway would remain blissfully free of controversy, except for that one movie she made where she got naked; a movie which, if our local DVD store is correct, is called Crikey Shit! Look At Anne Hathaway's Hooters! Look At Them!

But, whatever claims have been made against Anne Hathaway, there's just something about this story that doesn't ring true. Call us crazy, but we'd have thought that Anne would have wanted to be implicated in large-scale criminal fraud trial.

Because, seriously, if we were given a choice between that and having to repeatedly admit to an involvement in the movie remake of Get Smart, we'd have picked the former every time.