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Anne Hathaway dumped her Italian beau of four years, Raffaello Follieri, over the phone, Vanity Fair reports.

Follieri – who is currently jailed and under investigation for wire fraud and money laundering – broke down in tears as the 25-year-old Get Smart actress delivered the news on June 23.

“You were the love of my life,” Hathaway told Follieri, according to Vanity Fair. “I’ll always love you. You know that, baby.”

Just six hours later, Follieri was arrested. It was rumored that Hathaway was cooperating with federal investigators, although her spokesman declined to comment.

At the time of the split, the 30-year-old Italian businessman (whose scheming allegedly consisted of convincing rich investors to buy Vatican properties, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office) was staying in his parents’ spare bedroom in the Trump Tower in NYC.

It was a step down from the $37,000-per-month duplex apartment he shared with Hathaway. The actress footed the bill for the apartment for four months, the magazine reports.

Hathaway was once obsessed with Follieri, according to Vanity Fair.

“It was totally love at first sight… He is sooo good-looking… He looks like a god,” Hathaway said after meeting Follieri in 2004.

The magazine said their relationship was passionate initially; Follieri was stubborn, Hathaway was a drama queen. They often greeted each other with,
“Hey, baby.”

But things quickly went downhill as Follieri’s legal troubles grew earlier this year. (He was also arrested in April for writing a bad check worth $215,000.) Sources told Usmagazine.com “all the shady stuff was too much.”

The FBI confiscated the actress’ diaries in July as part of their ongoing investigation of Follieri, New York’s Daily News reports.

ollieri now faces life in prison, and Hathaway is moving on.

“The worst thing that happens to you can be the best thing for you, if you don’t let it get the best of you,” Hathaway – quoting humorist Will Rogers – told Britain’s Independent earlier this month.

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Anne Hathaway could be drawn deeper into the fraud scandal of her ex-boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, now that FBI agents have seized the actress’ private journals, sources tells us.

The agents confiscated the intimate diaries of the “Devil Wears Prada” star during another raid on Follieri’s $37,500-a-month Trump Tower pad, according to the sources. Seeking to bolster their case against the dashing Italian, who has been charged with 11 counts of fraud and money laundering, agents are also said to have seized photos of Follieri with Bill and Hillary Clinton, Pope John Paul II, and John and Cindy McCain. Also confiscated were documents, watches, a Tiffany clock, an antique Bible and personal photos of Follieri and Hathaway.

Hathaway, who has been charged with no crime, has cut off all contact with the 30-year-old Follieri, say sources. While Follieri recently had associates return to Hathaway a $250,000 abstract painting that had hung in his pad, “she’s changed her numbers so he can’t reach her,” says a friend. “Raffaello has been trying to call her all the time.”

Hathaway’s rep did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.

The disconnect notice is bound to darken the 7½-by-8-foot Metropolitan Correctional Center cell where Follieri has been held since his June 24 arrest, which stemmed from his bid to sell Catholic Church properties.

“Raffaello is doing very badly,” says a friend of Follieri, who was hospitalized for an anxiety attack the day he was locked up. “He says people are abusing him. He’s a broken man.”

According to friends, he still wonders whether Hathaway, 25, helped put him behind bars. “He was in Europe, working on a deal,” says a source. “He didn’t have to come back to New York. He knew he was being investigated. But she kept calling him, saying they needed to resolve their future. A few days after his return, he was arrested.”

Last week, prosecutors said Follieri was considering a plea deal. “It’s very fishy,” says one source. “He hasn’t even been indicted yet, and already they’re talking a plea? But he may have no money and the feds may have him so scared that he thinks this is his best shot.”

Follieri is also said to feel abandoned by his longtime adviser, lawyer Marty Edelman. According to a source, Edelman has refused to confer with Follieri’s current attorney, Flora Edwards, telling her he may be a witness should the case go to trial.

A lawyer for Edelman declined to comment.

Edwards says Follieri “is holding up reasonably well” in “a difficult and hostile environment.” She won’t say whether he’s mulling a plea, however, adding that “I have no information that Mary Edelman is a witness and he has not refused to speak with me.”

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