830.000 euros. This is the colossal sum that was made swindled a 53-year-old French woman in a few months. This absurd affair begins in February 2023, when Anne, the future victim, registers on the social network Instagram.
Quickly, she is contacted by an alleged Jane Etta PittBrad Pitt’s mother. “Very quickly, she said to me in conversation: ‘It is a woman like you that my son needs‘. I answer him: “what are you talking about, you’re completely delusional”, says the fifty-year-old in front of the cameras of the show Sept à Huit broadcast on TF1.
“The next day I received a new message: ‘Hello Anne, my mother told me a lot about you. I would like to know more’ In fact there, we’re talking about Brad PittI am amazed. At first, I tell myself that it’s fake, but I don’t really understand what’s happening to me. Afterwards, we will contact each other every day and we become friends.” continues Anne, who is not at the end of her surprises.
Little by little, the conversations become more intimate. During this same period, Anne’s couple, married to a millionaire entrepreneur, is going through complicated times. “I had someone in front of me who was interested in me and my work because my own husband wasn’t even interested in my work. It’s like I lived alone”she remembers.
Fake Brad Pitt even sends poems and other love songs to his future victim. “There are so few men who write you this kind of thing. I liked the man I spoke with. He knew how to talk to women, it was always very well spoken”, she admits to our colleagues. Very quickly, the scammer even sends her proof to make her believe that she is talking to the real actor: his passport, that of Rob O’Malley, his film double and his handyman.
When Anne mentions these doubts about the authenticity of the photos, her interlocutor always finds an excuse not to call her on the phone, but instead assures her that he will visit her in France very soon. The latter even goes so far as to send a video messagewhich is actually just a deep fake created via artificial intelligence.
“I tell myself that maybe I will save a man’s life”
-One day, the fake Brad Pitt told him that he had realized shopping for her and send article videos “from Vuitton, from Hermès, from Chanel”. However, to receive these gifts, Anne must pay the $5,180 in customs duties. “I immediately wrote to the so-called Brad Pitt telling him that I don’t agree and there he tells me that his accounts are blocked because of the lawsuit he has against Angelina Jolie, that he has millions of dollars, but he can’t touch it. Otherwise, he would have paid the tax costs. So, me, like an idiot, I pay the 5,000 euros. Every time I had doubts, he managed to remove my doubts.” she testifies in the TF1 show. Eventually, these 5,000 euros will become 9,000 euros, and Anne will obviously never receive her gifts.
At this time, Anne and her husband divorce. The fifty-year-old then receives the sum of 775,000 euros and brags about it to her new lover. Knowing this, the fake Brad, supposedly suffering from kidney cancer, asks his victim to advance medical expenseswhile promising to reimburse her later. “It costs me to do it, but I tell myself that maybe I will save a man’s life”confides the young woman in Sept à Huit.
This incredible story has lasted for eight months and Anne even gets angry with her daughter who suspected the deception. “She’s overexcited at first, she says to herself that it’s all new to her, that she’s never experienced this. At first, I laughed a little. I saw that it was just for the money In fact, she was so into this. unreal relationship that our relationship with us has deteriorated. It took up a lot more space, we were just talking about it. It hurt me too much to see that my mother was so naive and thatshe believed in it as hard as iron“explains the law student.
It was only in the fall of 2023, when photos of the real Brad Pitt were published in the celebrity press alongside his new partner, that Anne suspected the deception. “There, I said to him: ‘you have to be honest with me, if you have a relationship, you have to stop telling me that you love me’”, explains Anne. However, the fake Brad always manages to regain trust of his alleged sweetheart.
It was finally in the summer of 2024, when the real Hollywood star formalized her relationship, that Anne definitively stopped believing in this romance and file a complaint in the process.
No longer having a roof over her head and having to live with a friend, Anne tried three times to suicide. According to our colleagues, she only had 40,000 euros in savings and would have been forced to sell all her furniture. “I wonder why I was chosen to hurt myself like that. I’ve never hurt anyone in my life. These people deserve hell. These crooks need to be found.”. Still according to TF1, the unfortunate fifty-year-old is currently hospitalized in a clinic specializing in severe depression.
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