Anne Hathaway has signed on for a new role: Fiancee.
A spokesman for the 29-year-old actress says Hathaway is engaged to boyfriend and fellow actor Adam Shulman.
Publicist Stephen Huvane revealed no other details.
Hathaway is among the stars of the anticipated Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises.” She was nominated for an Academy Award for 2008′s “Rachel Getting Married” and hosted the 2011 Oscars with James Franco.
Hathaway’s other credits include “The Devil Wears Prada” and “Get Smart.”
Anne Hathaway thinks she might be crazy to attempt it, but she’s ready to conquer Broadway as Judy Garland.
“I think I’m either naive or insane to play her — maybe a little bit of both!” the starlet confided to us backstage at Sunday night’s Tony Awards. She added that she plans on getting a little help with her role in the upcoming “Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland” from Garland’s daughter Liza Minnelli. “I haven’t had a chance to talk to her about.
it yet, but I understand that as long as I treat Judy with respect — which of course I will — Liza is very happy about it.”
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Despite claiming she doesn’t date much, it appears Anne Hathaway’s luck is starting to change.
This mighty smooch confirms she has gone public with her love for actor Adam Shulman.
Anne was spotted kissing her new man on the way to a photoshoot the day before the Golden Globes – leaving little doubt that the pair are lovers.
And they clearly couldn’t keep their hands off each other as Anne,26, cuddled up to Adam on her driveway.
Dressed in black dress and leather jacket, the stylish brunette appeared happy and relaxed as she passionately embraced Adam before heading off.
The Devil Wears Prada star has reportedly been living with him for months – but this is the first time the couple have shown any kind of affection in public.
Hathaway recently said that despite playing a wedding obsessed character in Bride Wars, and sister of the bride in Rachel Getting Married, in real life she doesn’t even go out with many men.
‘I don’t date that much,’ she said.
The actress can hardly be blamed for staying away from the opposite sex after ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri was arrested for money laundering and fraud.
In September, the Italian conman admitted bilking investors by claiming to have an inside track on Vatican property and was jailed for four and a half years.
Hathaway says her relationship with Follieri was over before his arrest in June last year, and compared their differences to cherry blossom branches she once brought into their home.
‘They lasted a month and were beautiful even as they died,’ she said.
‘Raffaello always liked things fancier and perfect and told our maid to throw them out.
‘That was then I knew we saw things differently.’
And she claimed their break-up was not dramatic.
‘I was a 21-year-old kid when I met him. It wasn’t a huge, dramatic break-up,’ she said.
‘We were in the process of winding it down when he was arrested.
‘I don’t talk about this, except when I’m asked. It’s not a part of my life anymore.
‘It’s a complicated situation that has the ability to define me in ways I am not comfortable with.’
Meanwhile, Hathaway has got plenty to keep her busy with her career.
She’s been nominated for several awards for her performance as a recovering drug addict in Rachel Getting Married – but lost out on a Golden Globe to Kate Winslet on Sunday night.
She’s currently filming her role as the White Queen in the eagerly-anticipated film version of Alice In Wonderland.
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Anne Hathaway couldn’t hold back the rambling and tears as she received the dual honor of Best Actress (along with “Doubt” actress Meryl Streep) for her performance in “Rachel Getting Married” at Thursday night’s VH1 Critics Choice Awards. But one lady who looked less-than-impressed was fellow nominee Angelina Jolie.
As Hathaway gushed about how thrilling it was to win something with her “idol” Streep, the cameras caught Jolie (twice) with such a severe scowl it caused quite the gasp backstage.
Let’s put it this way: if looks could kill, Hathaway would definitely be dead.
“Angelina didn’t say much for the rest of the night,” an eyewitness told Tarts. “She was all smiles before the announcement, and it was clear she wasn’t happy.”
For a the world’s highest-paid actress, one would think Jolie would have found it an appropriate time to use her skills to hide those feelings of disappointment.
But back to Anne, this certainly isn’t the first time film critics have managed to trigger a tear or two.
“I cried it with joy the first time I got a good review from the New York Times. I cried with joy because it took forever and I had to memorize it,” she told Tarts. “They said my performance from ‘Becoming Jane’ was a triumph, and I felt so happy, because I’d never gotten a good review from them, so I cried and cried. Then the bad ones, well you try to learn from them. Sometimes you’re even ballsy enough to disagree with them.”
Hathaway received her highest acting praise to-date with her role as a tortured rehabber in “Rachel Getting Married,” but she insisted that she never lets the turmoil of her personal life and her break-up with jailed beau Raffaello Follieri to influence the characters she plays.
“I think it’s dangerous to use what’s going on in your personal life, it’s destructive and misleading because most of the time they have nothing to do with each other,” she said. “As an actress I love being able to leave my life behind.”
But despite the scandalous split, the 26-year-old couldn’t be better.
“I’m a pretty happy person even in critical moments,” she added. “How could I not be? I’m truly blessed and loved in my life.”
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Raffaello Follieri, the Italian businessman who dated actress Anne Hathaway, says his health has deteriorated because of “unspeakably unsanitary” jail conditions and wants to be moved.
Follieri, 30, once enjoyed a lavish globe-trotting lifestyle and dated Hathaway for four years before he was arrested in June for lying about ties to the Vatican for a real estate scheme.
Since he was sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison for fraud last month, he has had to contend with rotten food, foul odors and unclean toilets and as result is running a fever and has blood in his urine, according to a letter from his lawyer made available on Wednesday.
“He says that he cannot eat because the food appears to be spoiled and that the toilet and shower facilities are unspeakably unsanitary,” the letter from Flora Edwards said.
“There is excrement in the shower and rats are roaming freely in the area. He says the stench is intolerable,” the letter continued.
Follieri has been held in a windowless dormitory with 120 other men. Edwards requested he be moved to a different jail while awaiting transfer to a prison.
Follieri pleaded guilty last month to profiting $2.4 million from a scheme that exaggerated Vatican ties to mislead investors, including California supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle, into thinking he could buy the Catholic Church’s real estate at cheaper prices.
Hathaway, who starred in “The Devil Wears Prada,” has said she was shocked when Follieri was arrested.
A spokesman for the jail could not be immediately reached for comment.
A Manhattan judge sentenced actress Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend to 4 1/2 years in prison for cheating investors by claiming he had Vatican connections that allowed him to buy Catholic Church property at a discount.
Raffaello Follieri pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, and had agreed to forfeit $2.4 million.
The U.S. government said Follieri claimed he was the chief financial officer of the Vatican — and showed at least one business contact a phony letter in Italian, purportedly written to him in 2002 by Pope John Paul II.
Prosecutors said he used several million dollars from investors to travel the world on private planes, enjoying expensive hotels and dinners and renting yachts. He spent $37,000 a month for a Manhattan apartment.
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Prosecutors said Monday they were surprised the former boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway sent a judge a photo of himself and the pope while seeking leniency for cheating investors of millions of dollars by claiming he could buy Catholic Church property on the cheap.
They urged the judge Thursday to impose the more than four years in prison that Raffaello Follieri agreed to when he entered a guilty plea last month rather than the three years his defense lawyers requested in a recent submission of their own.
The prosecutors said Follieri included pictures of the pope and other clergymen even though his claims of Vatican ties were the foundation of his fraud.
“This is surprising because Follieri used these same photographs and connections in order to defraud investors and now seeks to use them in an effort to obtain a reduced sentence,” they said.
Follieri, 30, last month pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering and agreed to forfeit $2.4 million.
Prosecutors said Follieri betrayed and hurt numerous friends and business associates as he “committed crimes out of greed and a desire to live a lifestyle like the rich and famous.”
Follieri used several million dollars from investors to travel the world on private planes, spending thousands of dollars on food, wine, hotels, yacht rentals, flowers, cosmetics, clothes, wine, expensive dinners, dog walking services and personal vacations for himself, his girlfriend and his parents, the government said.
He spent another $37,000 per month for a luxury Manhattan condo. As part of his plea, Follieri agreed to forfeit any interest in 50 expensive watches and other jewelry.
Asked during a recent appearance on CBS’ “Late Show with David Letterman” what she carried away from her four-year relationship with Follieri, Hathaway said she kept their dog.
The government noted that the U.S. Probation Office had recommended a sentence of more than eight years.
Follieri duped investors from at least May 2005 through June 2007 by using his “considerable charm and skill” to trick people into investing, the government said.
“Follieri shamelessly told investors that the Catholic Church was vulnerable as a result of its financial obligations arising out of the sexual abuse lawsuits against the church while simultaneously misrepresenting that his connections with the Vatican enabled him to obtain special and exclusive access to church properties at cheap values,” prosecutors said.
They said Follieri assured representatives of the Catholic Church in the United States and elsewhere that he had the best of intentions in buying their properties even as he told investors he would develop them for substantial profits, prosecutors said.
The government said Follieri came to the United States in 2003 and immediately lied about his background, his business history, his education, his family and his connections to the Vatican.
In 2004, Follieri and his father started a real estate company, the Follieri Group, and enticed Yucaipa Cos to invest, the government said. Yucaipa is controlled by supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle, a close friend of former President Clinton’s.
Follieri showed at least one representative of Yucaipa a phony letter in Italian, purportedly written in 2002 by Pope John Paul II to Follieri, and said the letter authorized him to represent the Vatican in the United States in the purchase of church properties, it said.
Follieri claimed he was the chief financial officer of the Vatican; he exploited a relationship with a nephew of then-Secretary of State of the Vatican, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, to his advantage; and he hired two monsignors to travel with him, prosecutors said.
Despite these things, Follieri was unable to buy church properties at a discount because various dioceses throughout the country sold properties to the highest bidder, the government said.
When he was arrested, FBI agents recovered a letter in Follieri’s safe from Sodano saying “how perturbed I am to hear that your company continues to occasionally present itself as having ties to `the Vatican,’ due to the fact that my nephew, Andrea, has agreed on some occasions to provide you with professional consulting services,” the government said.
