surrender your gifts, anne hathaway!

poor annie! how would you like to be showered with lovely gifts, and then have them all taken away? oh, and also your boyfriend gets arrested and goes to jail?

the beautiful anne hathaway has dealt with a lot the past few years. namely, her “trusting” bf, raffaello follieri, was sentenced to 4/5 years to prison for his financial exploits. she insists the rug was pulled far over her eyes – why else would she stick with this slimeball?

back in 2008, the government seized almost all of follieri’s property, including anything gifted to girlfriend anne. now, the government is requesting the rights to sell it all to cover the 2.4 million debt he racked up.

judging by the seizure legal papers, it is clear that anne was spoiled rotten by this guy! they plan to auction off:

“all jewelry, watches, and other items recovered in or about august 2008 from an individual who received them from the defendant, which includes the following: one gold colored Rolex watch; one silver colored Rolex watch; one gold colored ring with light blue-green stone; one silver colored chain approximately sixteen inches long with a cross pendant and blue and clear stones; one pair of colored silver earrings with silver clasps and blue and clear stones; one gold colored ring with clear stones around the band; one silver colored bracelet with floral design and light blue and clear stones; one silver colored bracelet with clear stones; one silver colored necklace approximately sixteen inches long with five flower shaped designs and clear stones; one five-strand necklace approximately sixteen inches long with pearl beads; one gold colored chain approximately thirty-two inches long with a gold colored pendant with a red-brown stone and a gold colored tassel; and one louis vuitton box.”

whew, that’s quite the jewelry collection! but i suppose, why would she want to keep it anyway? only bad memories. good riddance, watches and necklaces!

the $93,000 stamp

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these days, i get frustrated with having to spend $0.42 to send a letter. stamp prices just keep climbing. but $93,000?? apparently this stamp was not meant to be licked and slapped on an envelope.

at an auction in germany this past tuesday, the above stamp sold to the highest bidder for $93,000. the stamp itself was quite rare, as only five copies of it are known to exist since its production in 2001. the stamp features hepburn in her most iconic role in ’breakfast at tiffany’s’.

apparently hepburn’s son, sean ferrer, put a halt to the distribution of the stamps as he was not fond of the cigarette and what it represented. as hepburn died of colon cancer in 1993, her son felt it inappropriate to promote a picture of her smoking. after the auction in which both buyer & seller were anonymous, ferrer said he hoped the money gained from the sell would go to help fund cancer research.