Tough times for a middle-aged French woman who was scammed out of $850,000 and fooled into thinking she was dating Brad Pitt after he was duped by manipulated images of the actor.
53 years old AnneMarried to a millionaire at the time, she fell for the scam in 2023… at one point she sent a large chunk of the money to the scammer who claimed they needed money for cancer treatment – complete with fake photos of hospital beds to get the to seal a scam.
A woman in France was scammed out of €830,000 after she thought she was dating Brad Pitt.
These are the photos she received, allegedly from Brad Pitt, that convinced her. pic.twitter.com/DHZklWbUDj
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How could she send that money? Oh, just her divorce settlement after she traded her millionaire husband for her fake movie star boo, according to the French Network BFM TV.
The fake Brad told her he couldn’t use his own money because he was going through a divorce Angelina Jolie – that was recently settled IR.
Anne’s introduction to the fake Pitt began on Facebook, where the scammer first posed as the actor’s mother. A month later, ‘Pitt’ himself interjected into her messages, leading to a whirlwind ‘romance’ that included marriage proposals and pleas for her to dump her millionaire husband.
There were warning signs from the start: She only texted the fake Brad because he was “too busy” to call. But with more and more romance scams on the rise, it’s easy to see how many vulnerable people could fall for them.
She finally got noticed after seeing a photo of the real Brad Pitt with his current girlfriend, Ines de Ramon.
Anne filed a complaint in 2024 and has since been treated in a clinic for severe depression. The police have not yet tracked down the scammer.