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Brad Pitt, here in September 2024, in Venice.
MISCELLANEOUS FACTS – TF1 takes the lead. This Monday, January 13 at the end of the day, the channel made the decision to withdraw from its last issue of Seven to eight the testimony of Anne, a 53-year-old interior designer who was the victim of a romantic scam. The cause was a wave of cyberharassment after its broadcast.
« Anne was the subject of denigration on social networks and we therefore decided that it was better to delete the replay », as the production of the show explained to our colleagues at Parisian. Information confirmed this Tuesday on the X account (formerly Twitter) of Seven to eight.
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« For the protection of victims, we have decided to remove it from our platforms », Specifies the tweet of the program presented by Harry Roselmack every Sunday. It is now impossible to find Anne's story on video, or to read the summary previously published by TF1 on its site.
On X, Instagram and TikTok, the sequence (seen by 2.95 million viewers on air) was widely commented on. “ This woman who fell in love with a fake Brad Pitt would surely not have been fooled if she was subscribed to our account », For example, quipped the Charente-Maritime gendarmerie in a tweet.
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Several passages were also ridiculed by many Internet users. Among them, photo montages generated by an AI with Brad Pitt on a hospital bed used by scammers to deceive Anne.
830 000 euros
Reminder of the facts. 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, and will gradually be convinced to send large sums of money through an account in Türkiye. She lost a total of 830,000 euros.
After realizing the scam, Anne filed a complaint. An investigation is currently open, but it has been canceled. Without a roof over her head, she is staying with a friend and has made several suicide attempts. Following filming with TF1, she asked to be hospitalized in a specialized clinic to treat serious depression.
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