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Daniele Venturelli/WireImageA French woman has allegedly transferred more than $800,000 to scammers after being tricked into believing she was dating. Brad Pitt.
The 53-year-old woman, identified as Anne, reportedly told French TV channel TF1 about her ordeal, leading to the belief that Brad, 61, needed funds to pay for kidney treatment. (The original interview was removed on Tuesday, January 14 due to online harassment Anne received, however French news sources AFP and BFM TV reported fraud as well as subsequent cyberbullying.)
According to BFM TVinterior designer Anne was recently interviewed on TF1’s Seven to eightwhere she explained that she was contacted in February 2023 by a person claiming to be Brad’s mother, Jane Pitt. Anne was on a ski trip in Tignes, France and posted photos of the trip on Instagram when she was contacted by so-called Jane.
The paper reported that Anne found out the next day that Jane’s account was “apparently linked to the actor” and that scammers posing as Brad told Anne that his “mother was talking a lot about her”.
Brad Pitt’s agent is setting a record for the actor’s social media presence after Spanish police arrested five people who allegedly impersonated Pitt online. “It’s terrible that scammers are taking advantage of fans’ strong connections with celebrities,” Pitt publicist Matthew Hiltzik told Us Weekly in a statement on Wednesday, Sept. 25. “And that’s important (…)
The relationship quickly developed and Anne, who was reportedly married at the time, was said to receive “poems and numerous declarations”. Anne reportedly told TF1: “There are so few men who text you like that. I liked the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women, it was always very well done.’
AI-generated videos, fake social media and WhatsApp accounts were used by scammers to maintain the trick, and alleged examples of these efforts were published via X and included in BFM TV‘s report.
According to BFM TVAnne reportedly told TF1: “At first I thought it was fake, it was ridiculous. But I’m not used to social media and I didn’t really understand what was happening to me.”
As Anna’s confidence grew, she sent almost €10,000 to the scammers after being told customs tariffs required payment for the gifts to be sent to her.
Anne then allegedly informed the criminals that she had divorced her husband, and her initial transfer was followed by another transfer totaling just under €775,000 – almost her entire divorce settlement.
The second transfer was allegedly made as a result of Anne being told that “Pitt” had kidney cancer and required financial assistance as his accounts were frozen during the ongoing divorce proceedings with Pitt’s real-life ex. Angelina Jolie took place.
British newspaper The Times announced that TF1 had removed the original news article to protect Anne from the “wave of harassment” she received online after publishing her story.
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Anne has reportedly filed a lawsuit and a police investigation has been launched, according to multiple sources.
This isn’t the first time Brad has been criminally impersonated online. The actor’s publicist Matej Hiltzik he said My Weekly in a statement on September 25, 2024 that “It’s terrible that scammers are taking advantage of fans’ strong connections with celebrities,” after The Spanish police made an arrest five people for allegedly playing as Brad.
In the September ordeal, two women were defrauded of at least $350,000.
