This is the actor's first official reaction. In the American media Entertainment Weekly, Brad Pitt's agent reacted this Tuesday to the report broadcast on Sunday by TF1, which tells the story of a woman scammed by a crook usurping the identity of the American actor. “It’s awful that scammers are taking advantage of fans’ strong connection to celebrities,” he said.
Anne, aged around fifty, told the show “Sept à Huit” that she paid 830,000 euros to scammers who pretended to be Brad Pitt by sending him false selfies and identity documents. falsified and using artificial intelligence to dispel doubts.
For Brad Pitt's spokesperson, this case “is an important reminder not to respond to unsolicited online messages, especially from actors who are not present on social networks.”
Pretending to need money to pay for an operation for kidney cancer, the fake Brad Pitt managed to extract large sums from Anne, who is now ruined and has made three suicide attempts. According to the report from “Sept à Huit”, she filed a complaint and is currently hospitalized in an establishment specializing in serious depression. Since the report was broadcast, she has been the subject of ridicule from Internet users mocking her credulity.
-Consequence: the TF1 show removed the report concerning the victim from all its platforms. On X, the show denounced “a wave of harassment against a witness” and justified its decision by a desire to protect “victims”.
TFC, the Toulouse football club, posted a message on And you ? “. Under fire from criticism, the L1 club then backtracked by presenting its “sincere apologies”.
Netflix posted a message on X listing four films available on its platform in which the American star appears. “4 films to see with Brad Pitt (promise) it’s a gift,” says the message. The comedian and France Inter columnist, Matthieu Noël, also joked about Anne's fate in his morning post on Tuesday.
