Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / FilmMagic
Brad Pitt, here in September 2024, in Los Angeles.
MISCELLANEOUS FACT – “ I loved the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women. » These words are those of a certain Anne, 53 years old, who in her testimony for the show Seven to eightthis Sunday January 12 on TF1, said he was cheated out of 830,000 euros thinking he was having an affair with Brad Pitt. It was a scam.
Explanations. We are in Tignes in 2023 and Anne, whose marriage to a millionaire entrepreneur is failing, receives a message on Instagram, where she has just registered. “ It’s a woman like you that my son needs », wrote to him a lady posing as Jane Etta Pitt, Brad’s mother.
Anne doesn’t believe it. But the next day, new message. It’s him. She still doesn’t believe it. And yet, the weeks pass, and the interior decorator communicates more and more with him. The so-called Brad Pitt sends him declarations of love, poems. Anne is touched: “ There are so few men who write you this kind of thing. »
Several “proofs” put forward by the man behind the account end up convincing her. He sent him a copy of his passport and that of Rob O’Malley, his understudy in the cinema. By email or on social networks, accounts presenting themselves as close to the actor, including his daughter Shiloh and his associate Jeremy Kleiner, in turn wrote to Anne.
Brad Pitt makes it official with Inès de Ramon
For his part, “Brad Pitt” sent him photos. “And when I was searching, I didn’t see them. So, I said to myself: “these are photos that he took for me”.” also specifies Anne, always in Seven to eight.
Some of the photos in question show Brad Pitt on a hospital bed. These are montages generated by an AI. They were notably used by the “grazers”, the crooks behind this vast emotional scam, to make people believe that the actor had kidney cancer, to ask Anne to advance the costs. His accounts were supposedly blocked because of his divorce from Angelina Jolie.
Anne, who after her divorce from her husband received 775,000 euros, confided for a year and a half to this so-called Brad Pitt, to whom she regularly transferred more or less large sums of money through from an account in Turkey. She gave him a total of 830,000 euros.
-The story ended up ending, when in the summer of 2024 she discovered in the press the formalization of Brad Pitt with his new partner, Inès de Ramon, after months of rumors. For Anne, who all along said she had expressed certain doubts, this time, it’s certain: she was fooled. She files a complaint. An investigation has been opened.
Love scams in France
Today, the latter finds itself without a roof. Hosted by a friend, she says she still has 40,000 euros in savings in her pocket. Devastated by this affair, she made several suicide attempts and recently asked to be hospitalized in a specialized clinic to treat serious depression.
According to TF1, this would be the biggest case (in terms of its amount) in terms of sentimental fraud, also called “love scam”. More than 1,200 cases have been recorded in France in 2023. Last August, scammers posed as Florent Pagny on social networks in order to establish links with a fan to extract money from her. A little earlier in the year, it was with fake accounts bearing the likeness of Kendji Girac.
In this type of scam, which takes place on dating sites or social networks, the victim never physically meets the scammer, whose discussions with the victim are most of the time generated by an AI, as in the case of Anne. Depending on the case, the perpetrators can be punished with five years of imprisonment and a fine of 375,000 euros.
Also see on HuffPost :
Reading this content may result in cookies being placed by the third party operator who hosts it. Taking into account the choices you have expressed regarding the deposit of cookies, we have blocked the display of this content. If you wish to access it, you must accept the “Third Party Content” category of cookies by clicking on the button below.
Play Video
Related News :