The Real Brad Pitt Has Reacted To The Woman Who Gave Away $855k To Scammers Posing As Him – BuzzFeed
The scammers apparently convinced the woman that “Brad” needed money for cancer treatment by sending her numerous AI-generated images depicting the movie star in the hospital.BuzzFeed StaffThe ordeal apparently began in February 2023, when Anne — who was then married to a wealthy entrepreneur — received an Instagram message from someone pretending to be Brad’s mom, Jane Etta Pitt. As the story goes, Brad’s fake mother told Anne that her son “needed a woman just like her,” and soon enough, she found herself in direct contact with the movie star — or so she thought.“At first, I thought it was fake, but I didn’t really understand what was happening to me,” Anne recently recalled on the French TV show Sept à huit, which is aired by broadcaster TF1.“Like a fool, I paid… Every time I doubted him, he managed to dissipate my doubts,” Anne recalled.A french woman was scammed out of over $800K by someone pretending to be Brad Pitt• Scammer DM’d her on Instagram and convinced her with AI-generated videos and edited images• She divorced her husband thinking they would get together• Scammer convinced her his bank… pic.twitter.com/VWD3RtvIO3While all this was going on, Anne went through a divorce in which she received a settlement of €775,000. She wound up giving all this money to fake Brad and the scammers.Despite the scammers’ attempts to rectify the situation with an AI-generated news report about the actor’s “exclusive relationship” with Anne, she eventually decided to end things. She later contacted the police, and an investigation is currently underway.It was revealed on Sept à huit that Anne — now left in financial ruin — has tried to end her life three times since the ordeal came to light. “Why was I chosen to be hurt this way?” she said on the show. “These people deserve hell. We need to find those scammers. I beg you — please help me find them.”“It’s awful that scammers take advantage of fans’ strong connection with celebrities,” the actor’s spokesperson said in a statement provided to E! News on Jan. 15.They added that the ordeal is “an important reminder to not respond to unsolicited online outreach, especially from actors who have no social media presence.” For context, Brad has no official social media accounts.“I had forty times, maybe even more, when I didn’t believe it,” she said during an appearance on a popular French YouTube channel on Jan. 14. “I say each time, this photo is fake. […] In the show, obviously, none of this is said.”Further calling out Sept à huit, she added: “The journalist spent two days interviewing me. And he only remembered what shouldn’t have been remembered in fact, to tarnish my image. It’s only for the purpose of gaining an audience… My whole life is a small room with some boxes. That’s all I have left.”
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