Anne Hathaway's generous boyfriend sued by Billionaire Burkle

By Stone Martindale May 4, 2007, 20:41 GMT

Anne Hathaway EPA/PAUL BUCK

The Devil Wears Prada" star and soon to be agent 99 in the movie remake of television series, "Get Smart," Anne Hathaway, has a really generous boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri.

Her paramour is a real-estate developer and according to TMZ.com, he is being sued by billionaire Ron Burkle "for allegedly taking $55 million of Burkle's company's money and lavishing it on an unnamed actress girlfriend," who TMZ claims it has confirmed as Hathaway.

The suit was filed in Delaware Chancery Court, and claims Follieri "spent at least some of the gigantic money pile on private jet travel for himself and Hathaway, dog care for their Labrador Esmerelda, monster shopping at Prada and Fendi, and an executive chef, among other extravagances."

The suit claims, according to TMZ, that the monies used were earmarked for development of land purchased from the Catholic Church which TMZ claims is Follieri's "business specialty."

Burkle is a mega-rich Democrat that TMZ claims was a recent bidder for the struggling Los Angeles Times.

Add insult to injury, the TMZ-ers also claim that while Hathaway was shooting "Get Smart" in L.A., her generous beau Follieri "has been spotted in NYC with an unnamed model for Roberto Cavalli, and that Follieri and his not-Anne were recently seen slithering out the back of exclusive celebriteria Waverly Inn."