The Reunion financial brigade is in charge of investigations concerning the fake Brad Pitt scam denounced by Anne. The fifty-year-old accuses scammers of having taken a colossal amount from her by sending her fake selfies and falsified identity documents.
The case has generated thousands of mocking messages on social networks, but above all it has a legal aspect. An investigation for “fraud” is currently underway concerning the feelings scam of which Anne was the victim. This fifty-year-old accuses crooks of having taken 830,000 euros from her by pretending to be Brad Pitt.
The investigations are entrusted to the financial brigade of the territorial judicial police service of Reunion, where Anne has been based for several weeks, indicates the Saint-Denis-de-La-Réunion public prosecutor's office to BFMTV.com, confirming information of the Parisian. The fifty-year-old filed a complaint last October. Another investigation is also underway in Nigeria, where a repentant crook says he has tracked down the “grazers”.
Living in Mauritius with her family, this 53-year-old French woman was fooled by scammers posing as the Hollywood actor but also members of her family and close friends. Through sweet words and grand declarations, the crook(s) established a letter-writing relationship with the fifty-year-old, unhappy in a relationship and on the verge of divorce.
Another civil procedure
“There are so few men who write you this kind of thing. I liked the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women, it was always very well spoken,” she testified in the show Seven to eightbroadcast Sunday January 12 on TF1.
Proving convincing, the crook(s) managed to extract, in several installments, 830,000 euros from Anne to pay, mainly, for pseudo hospital care. Anne regretted on the Youtube channel of host Guillaume Pley, Legendthe treatment of his story in the show Seven to eight.
“I am not crazy or stupid as some people claim (…) In my place you would have fallen into the trap,” she assures.
She adds: “I was indeed fooled, I admit it and that's why I testified because I'm not the only one in this situation.” In September 2024, the Spanish police announced that a “fake Brad Pitt” had also taken 325,000 euros from two women. Me Laurène Hanna, Anne's lawyer, is preparing civil action with a formal notice from her client's bank, which never alerted her about the transfers she was making to a bank account in an establishment abroad, in this case in Turkey.
“She had so much doubt, all it took was an objective organization, a bank, for her to stop everything, believes the lawyer. I think she would have retracted. The bank has a duty to advise, there they don't didn't even think about the issue.”
Wave of cyberharassment
Since the broadcast of the report, Anne has been the subject of taunts from Internet users mocking her supposed gullibility and has been hospitable. It still is today. The report of Seven to eight was also removed from the TF1 group's platforms, due to this “wave of harassment” of which she was the victim on social networks.
For his part, actor Brad Pitt reacted, via his spokesperson, warning the actor's fans not to respond to “any request”. “I thank him, clarifying this officially is what we need to do, Anne is not the only victim of this type of scam,” concludes Anne’s lawyer.
