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?
this is seriously just pathetic. who the hell says “the stench is intolerable” and “the shower facilities are unspeakably filthy”? he sounds like a real dick. he should have thought about how jail would be before he became a criminal.
Wait until he becomes someone’s girlfriend.
Yeah, jail is not supposed to be fun, but it’s not supposed to be like Guantanamo Bay either. He’s probably being a pussy and exaggerating, but if he’s actually telling the truth and there is excrement in the shower, rats, and if the food is spoiled, then I agree with him and he should be transferred, along with his inmates. Criminals deserve punishment, but I don’t think they should be treated like animals.
That’s almost as sad as the Bali Bombers appealing the firing squad because they believed it could be painful. Duh! I’m pretty sure it wasn’t as painful as the screws, ball bearings, and other shrapnel that ripped through the crowd in Kuta.
Unless he was sentenced to freaking SaÄŸmalcılar prison, in this day and age, I have no doubt it’s some cornfed conman exaggerating about conditions a la Nick Hogan.
While I feel that there are most certainly jails out there somewhere in this country with less than humane conditions, it should not take until a celebrity complains for something to be done about the problem. Ordinary people matter just as much.
Hmph.
I dislike him because he made Anne Hathaway no longer believe in love and hate the world…
I hate when men do that.
^^^Wendie….too funny!!! Almost blew good chardonnay out my nose laughing.
Just curious, are you THE Wendie?
@ltbhb,
*checks license* ayup.
Maybe he can be transferred to Oswald Correctional Facility and get to stare at Christopher Merloni’s cock all day.
I like that he’s being all “the conditions are unbearable! MOVE ME OUT BECAUSE I’M THE ONLY ONE WHO MATTERS.” Non-famous prisoners can just deal.
Don’t drop the soap Raffi!
hence the phrase “rotting in jail”
At least he’s enduring some form of “punishment”. The local jail he’s being held in until his transfer to a “real” prison is probably poorly run. However, he may find out that the local jail is not as bad as the prison he’s going to spend most of his sentence at.
Hope he gets everything he deserves.
Unless he’s in a Russian prison, I don’t feel sorry for him. And even then, don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. The rest of us manage to stay out of prison; we don’t need to go to prison to know we don’t want to live in prison.
could you please explain to me, WHY is she with an UGLY man? there ARE pretty ones, or so i’ve been told. and don’t start about “perhaps she’s not superficial and loves him for his personality”… there must be good-looking guys with a half-decent personality about.