For obvious reasons, scammers have found a lot of success posing as Brad Pitt on the internet and asking women to send them money. This week, one such story has both the French media and American X in a choke hold: A 53-year-old interior designer named Anne says she left her millionaire husband in 2023 and used her divorce settlement to send someone she believed was Brad Pitt $850,000 for alleged surgeries.
Anne, who is reportedly being treated at a clinic for severe depression, seems to have caught the public’s attention after appearing in a since-deleted French TV segment on Sunday, in which she said she spent a year and a half communicating with fake Brad Pitt on Facebook and WhatsApp. She claims that the scammers, posing as Pitt, told her he needed money for kidney surgeries while his cash was tied up in his ongoing divorce from Angelina Jolie and sent Anne AI-generated images of Pitt in the hospital. They are really something:
Anne, whom The Guardian says “did not have much understanding about social media,” said she didn’t realize she was being duped until she saw photos of Pitt with his girlfriend, Ines de Ramon. She reportedly filed a police complaint last year, but French authorities have not caught the scammers yet. Have they tried looking for someone with a folder full of paparazzi shots and really bad Photoshop skills?