Anne Hathaway wasn’t married to Italian businessman and alleged swindler Raffaello Follieri, but he said he’d bought her an engagement ring and was getting ready to ask for her hand when their world came crashing down. In 2008, four years into their relationship, Follieri was arrested for money laundering.
According to the Daily Mail, authorities seized personal photos and even Hathaway’s diaries from his Trump Tower apartment as evidence in the crimes. The tabloid claimed relationship problems surfaced days earlier when news broke that Follieri’s charity organization was being investigated by authorities, prompting Hathaway to resign from its board.
“I was devastated,” Follieri lamented (via the Daily Mail). “I knew as soon as I was arrested that our relationship was over because this situation was not comfortable for her. That was it.”
Ike Turner helped propel Anna Mae Bullock to superstardom when he took her under his wing and changed her stage name to Tina Turner. Unfortunately, with his tutelage and musical genius came reported domestic abuse, which Tina detailed in her memoir, I, Tina, and which was dramatized in the film What’s Love Got to Do With it (1993). Before divorcing Ike in 1976, Tina claimed his abuse was so severe that at one point, he broke her jaw.
Before she made headlines for her ill-advised, ill-fated Trump beheading stunt in 2017, Kathy Griffin was a pretty well-liked comedian (and even now is committing good deeds, like shaving her head in solidarity with her sister who’s battling cancer). When she married software entrepreneur Matthew Moline in 2001, it seemed like a cute match.
That is, until they split. Griffin filed for divorce in 2005, and the alleged reasons for the breakup were sad and sketchy. “My ex-husband, without my knowledge, was sneaking into my wallet when I was asleep in the mornings and taking my ATM cards of my own private accounts and withdrawing money,” the former My Life on the D-List star told Larry King in 2006 (via People). “He admitted it and apologized and…we went to couples therapy. I really wanted to make it work. Unfortunately, we [were not] able to get beyond the trust issue.
Griffin said she eventually decided to copy by “putting everything in the act. I kind of turn tragedy into comedy and I find that that’s a great way for me to deal with it.”
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