Hollywood veteran Brad Pitt, 61, has found himself entangled in a scam that left a 53-year-old woman out of almost all her life savings.
The married woman, only identified as Anne, told the French news show
“Sept à huit” she believed that she was in a romantic relationship with
Pitt, but it turned out to be an online con.
In Feb. 2023, Anne received a Facebook message from someone claiming
to be the Academy Award winner’s mother, Jane Etta Pitt, that read,
“It’s a woman like you that my son needs.”
The scammer then allegedly began sending love poems to Anne claiming
he was Pitt, which caused the then-married woman to fall in love with
the imposter.
“At first, I said to myself that it was fake, that it’s ridiculous,” she explained to the French news network BFM TV. “I liked the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women, it was always very well done.”
Things were going so well that the con artist proposed and Anne later
divorced her then-husband. After receiving money from her divorce
settlement, the scammer started sending her AI-generated photos of Pitt
in the hospital.
Eventually, the fake Brad Pitt claimed he needed a loan for cancer
treatments and did not have access to his bank accounts due to his
lengthy divorce from Angelina Jolie, which was finalized Dec. 30, 2024, after eight years.
Anne supposedly gave the catfisher around $850,000 during the time
they were speaking until the summer of 2024. She did not realize the
correspondence was a sham until she saw a picture of Pitt with his current girlfriend, Ines de Ramon.
After Anne’s unsettling story made international headlines, the
“Wolfs” star released a statement about the situation to various news
outlets through a spokesperson.
“It’s awful that scammers take advantage of fans’ strong connection with celebrities,” a representative for Pitt told E! News.
The rep continued, “But this is an important reminder to not respond
to unsolicited online outreach, especially from actors who have no
social media presence.”
Brad Pitt does not have any verified accounts on social networking apps such as Instagram, TikTok, or X (formerly Twitter).
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