For four years a besotted Anne Hathaway would tell just about anyone who listened that her charismatic boyfriend Raffaello Follieri was ‘a god’.
He whisked her around the world on jets and yachts, spending £87,000 for a private plane to a New Year’s Eve party at fashion designer Oscar De La Renta’s house in the Dominican Republic, where Bill and Hillary Clinton were also guests.
There were suites at the Ritz in Paris, the Excelsior in Rome, the Dorchester in London and goodness knows how many other swanky hotels, when they weren’t at his opulent £30,000-a-month Manhattan apartment.