BehindTheMedspeak: World's most expensive house call

Look at the photo above.

Whom do you see (the guy, silly)?

It's none other than 29-year-old Raffaello Follieri, among other things Anne Hathaway's ex-boyfriend, now under house arrest at his Trump Tower apartment after being arrested last Tuesday and charged with fraud and money laundering.

Geraldine Fabrikant's June 25, 2008 New York Times story noted that "Judge Henry B. Pitman set bail at $21 million, to be secured by $16 million in cash and property and guaranteed by five financially responsible persons. Mr. Follieri had to surrender all travel documents and was ordered confined to his home in Manhattan with the exception of legal, religious and medical needs."

Medical needs?

Further on in the article we find, "... Mr. Follieri used the money he raised to indulge a lifestyle that included the perquisites of the wealthy: ... a house call by his doctor that cost $30,000...."

Yo, Raffaello — give me a holler (bookofjoe@gmail.com) and I'll be there instanter for half that.

I'll even spring for my own plane ticket.

What amazed me was how fast Ms. Hathaway threw Follieri under the bus once the heat got turned up on her beau.

Talk about a New York minute....

She doesn't even know any Italian guys — what're you goin' on about, joe?