A French woman is accused of sending more than $800,000 to a scammer after she thought she was dating Brad Pitt.
The 53-year-old, identified as Anne, reportedly told French TV station TF1 about her ordeal, believing Brad, 61, needed money to pay for his kidney treatment. (The original interview was deleted on Tuesday, January 14, due to online harassment against Anne. However, French media outlets AFP and BFM TV reported on the scam, as well as the cyberbullying that followed.)
According to BFM TV, the interior designer was recently interviewed on TF1’s “Seven to Eight” where she explained that she was contacted by someone claiming to be Brad Pitt’s mother, Jane Pitt, in February 2023. Anne was on a skiing trip to Tignes, France, and had posted photos from the trip on Instagram when she was contacted by someone claiming to be Jane.
The outlet reported that Anne discovered the following day that Jane’s account was “apparently linked to the actor,” and that scammers posing as Brad told Anne that his “mother has spoken … a lot about her.”
Anne, who was immediately developed, and was said to have been married, would have received poetry and many statements.
Ann would have told TF1: “Very few men write this kind for you. I liked the man I was talking about. He knew how to talk to women, it was always very well done.
Generated AI video, fake social networks and WhatsApp accounts were used by scammers to maintain the trick, and the alleged examples of these efforts were published through X and included in the BFM TV report.
“At first I told myself it was a lie and that it was just a funny thing to do, but I was new to social media and didn’t really understand what was happening to me,” Anh told TF1, according to BFM television.
Feeling more confident, Anna told the scammers she needed to pay customs duties to send the gifts, and transferred them around 10,000 euros.
Anne then allegedly informed the criminals that she had divorced her husband and followed up her initial transfer with another totalling just under €775,000 — almost the entirety of her divorce settlement.
The second translation was that the pit had a kidney cancer due to the fact that his account was blocked during Angelina Jolie’s true divorce with his previous life.
It is said that it occurred as a result of the fact that Anne said.
British newspaper The Times reported that TF1 had removed the original news article to protect Anne from the “wave of harassment” that hit her online after her story became public.
According to many stores, Anna would have filed a complaint and a police investigation would have begun.
This isn’t the first time Brad has been a victim of online identity theft.
Following Spanish police arresting five people for allegedly playing Brad, the actor’s publicist, Matthew Hiltzik, told Us Weekly in a statement on September 25, 2024, “It’s terrible that scammers are taking advantage of the strong connection that fans and celebrities have.”
In a September case, two women were defrauded of at least $350,000.
