Oh, I just love when rich and famous people have to go to jail for, ya know, breaking the law, and then their lawyers come out screaming because it turns out that being stuck in jail is not exactly the same as being stuck at, say, the Waldorf-Astoria.

Raffaello Follieri’s lawyers say the horrid conditions in jail are making him ill, and he’s requesting to transfer to a new prison, preferably the one with a concierge, spa and turn-down service.

Since he was sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison for fraud last month, he has had to contend with rotten food, foul odors and unclean toilets and as result is running a fever and has blood in his urine, according to a letter from his lawyer made available on Wednesday.

“He says that he cannot eat because the food appears to be spoiled and that the toilet and shower facilities are unspeakably unsanitary,” the letter from Flora Edwards said.

“There is excrement in the shower and rats are roaming freely in the area. He says the stench is intolerable,” the letter continued.

Follieri has been held in a windowless dormitory with 120 other men. Edwards requested he be moved to a different jail while awaiting transfer to a prison.

Get over it, con-man. Or can’t you call in some favors from the Vatican?

Con-man Raffaello Follieri was sentenced today to four-and-a-half years in prison for cheating investors by claiming he had Vatican connections that allowed him to buy Catholic Church property at a discount.

Meanwhile, Anne Hathaway’s busy looking gorgeous on red carpets all around the world as she promotes her new film, Rachel Getting Married, which will probably earn her an Emmy nod. Not too shabby, my dear.

Here’s the much buzzed-about photo of Senator John McCain, celebrating his birthday in 2006 on a yacht, along with Raffaello Follieri and Anne Hathaway.

Follieri, you’ll recall, recently pled guilty to like 5000 federal counts of total illegalness.

You can read the full story on this meeting here. I would read it and talk about it, but it’s long and seems complicated and there are no pictures. And you know how I feel about reading things that have no pictures.

I kind of wanted to make this a “Caption This” but decided against it since we already did one today. But feel free to try your hand at commenting it anyway, if you’d like.

There’s this wonderful thing about spoiled rich-boy criminals: every now and then, it’s pointed out to them that sometimes the consequences of their actions suck. Or, ya know, penetrate.

Raffaello Follieri seems to have found out the — ahem — hard way that prison is no fun, as he pleaded guilty to fourteen counts of con-artistry in at Manhattan Federal court today.

He then begged the judge to transfer him out of his holding cell, citing “unspecified inmate issues.”

Meanwhile, W magazine seems to have scored the tear-jerker of an Aftermath Interview with Anne Hathaway.

“Right now I don’t have the wherewithal to be anything except professional,” she told the mag. “As soon as I found out about the arrest, I had to get on a plane to Mexico to do a press tour for Get Smart. And then I spent a week in shock at a friend’s house. And then I had to go back and do more press, and I haven’t stopped since … It’s a situation where the rug was pulled out from under me all of a sudden. But just as suddenly, my friends threw another rug back under me. One said, ‘Go stay at my house.’ And Steve Carell stepped up for me during an interview when someone asked a question [about the criminal investigation]. He said, ‘At some point you’re going to have to talk about this time in your life. You don’t have to do it this week. I’ll take care of anything that comes your way.’”

Awww … this just makes me love Steve Carrell even more!!!

Feel better, Anne! You dodged a bullet, sweetheart.

I have to admit I like Anne Hathaway a LOT more now that there’s actually some drama surrounding her. As you’ll recall, Anne spent awhile in a serious relationship with Raffaello Follieri, who was arrested yesterday for some really shady investment shit. The two had recently broken up.

But they didn’t break up recently enough, it seems. The issue of InStyle, which hits newsstands next month, has Anne gushing about her relationship with Raffaello.

“I enjoy living with him so much, but we’re in his apartment – and we’ve decided that it’s time to find where our home is going to be,” she said. “If we get a house as opposed to an apartment, the first two floors will be a bit more traditional for him to be able to receive people, and the top two floors will be whatever I want.” She adds that there’s no pressure about marriage because, “we’re quite happy . . . I’m [not] sweating out a proposal.”

My, how things can change.

Anne’s friends say that “she’s heartbroken. She was really in love with him.”

Oh, Anne. You TOTALLY dodged a bullet here.

OMG we’ve actually found something interesting about Anne Hathaway! Unfortunately, she already dumped him …

Anne’s ex-boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, has been arrested on wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering charges.

He’s due in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday. Yes, federal. This is some hardcore shit, people.

He is accused of falsely telling an investor that he had been appointed as the chief financial officer of the Vatican.

Authorities say he claimed that, as a result of that connection, he and others could obtain properties of the Catholic church in the United States at a substantial discount to fair market value.

Um … in general, if someone tells you he’s the chief financial officer of the Vatican, and you believe him, you kind of deserve to have your money swindled, don’t you? Survival of the fittest, people.