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A heartbroken interior designer was crushed when she realised the person she realised she'd been scammed by someone claiming to be Brad Pitt, but only after she'd sent over thousands
22:06, 14 Jan 2025Updated 22:06, 14 Jan 2025
A woman was left heartbroken and poor after being scammed by someone pretending to be Brad Pitt who convinced her to hand over nearly £700k for his “cancer treatment”.
Interior designer Anne, 53, from France, couldn’t believe her luck at what she thought was the prospect of striking up a romance with Hollywood heartthrob Pitt. In February 2023, Anne received an Instagram message from someone who claimed to be the actor’s mother. The very next day, ‘Brad’ himself popped up in her DMs, saying: “My mother has spoken a lot about you already."
A year-long “love affair” commenced, complete with daily texts, soppy poetry and AI-generated photos and videos of the actor. “There are so few men who write you this kind of thing," Anne, who is said to have been struggling in her own marriage, told French media.
She added: "I liked the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women, it was always very well done.”
Taken with the idea of dating the Oceans 11 star, Anne divorced her husband, netted a £670,000 settlement and promptly started sending money to the scammer to help with his “treatment”.
This included £50,500 for what Anne was led to believe was kidney cancer treatment, after fake doctors had emailed her saying the 61-year-old A-lister was “fighting to survive”.
Fake Brad also told Anne repeatedly he couldn’t access his cash because of the ongoing divorce from Angelina Jolie.
“It cost me to do it, but I thought that I might be saving a man’s life,” Anne said, according to The Telegraph . When Anne’s daughter warned her she could be the victim of a scam, she said: “You’ll see when he’s here in person then you’ll say sorry.”
Anne said she only began to clock when she saw photos of the real Brad Pitt with his girlfriend, Ines de Ramon.
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