Brad Pitt Speaks Out on ‘Awful’ Love Scam That Cost French Woman $850,000: It Took ‘Advantage of the Strong Bond Between Fans and Celebrities’

https://variety.com/2025/film/global/brad-pitt-responds-scam-french-woman-1236275941/

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  1. >The person pretending to be the actor ultimately claimed he needed $1 million for a kidney treatment because he was unable to access his bank accounts due to his divorce with Angelina Jolie. Anne, who by that time was divorcing her husband, had received funds from the settlement and gave it all to the scammer, who was flooding her with AI pics of Pitt in a hospital bed.

    >The hoax ended shortly after Pitt officialized his relationship with Ines de Ramon at the Venice Film Festival.

    >In response to the viral piece, Pitt’s spokesperson said in a statement obtained by Variety that, “It’s awful that scammers take advantage of the strong bond between fans and celebrities. This is an important reminder not to respond to unsolicited online messages, especially from actors who are not present on social networks.”

  2. This kind of preying on lonely people is horrible. If you go over to r/scams, there’s tons of “Help! My relative thinks they’re dating (celebrity name), and they won’t stop sending them money!”

    All scammers who prey on people’s emotions, deserve their own special place in hell.

  3. My mother-in-law has been in the process of being scammed by a guy pretending to be Derek Hough from *Dancing With the Stars*. Claims to be in dire need of money for which he’ll “pay her back with interest.” It’s excruciating to watch and she’s wasting away all the savings she’ll need to help pay for costs when she can’t physically take care of herself. And it doesn’t meet the legal threshold for her kids to seek power of attorney and limit her ability to spend thousands of dollars at a time.

    These scammers are the worst scum of the earth and I wish them horrible, fiery eternies in hell for doing this to lonely moms and grandmas. It’s ruined my wife’s relationship with hers.

  5. this story is proof that wealth and intelligence have no relationship whatsoever.

  6. “and, I’m a stone cold fox, so actually she got off pretty cheap.” — also said, by Brad Pitt.

  7. Scams are bad. Separately, why the fuck is this man not asked about ASSAULTING HIS WIFE IN FRONT OF MULTIPLE WITNESSES? Fuck him and any story about him that do any lead with that.

  11. Expect more articles like this in coming months. His PR team really working to gloss over the heinous shit he did to his wife and children

  12. Don’t forget about the California woman who was taken by a fake Keanu Reeves.

    She now lives in her car. She was interviewed on tv and insists it was the real Keanu.

  13. There are thousands of these scams going on right now. They play on the loneliness and emotional needs of their victim, who often become too ashamed of being scammed to put acc be stop to it. Delusion, loneliness, embarrassment are powerfully destructive.

  14. The French woman is lucky she wasn’t interacting with the real Brad Pitt.

    Angelina Jolie can probably explain why.

  15. He later said “she should have known she wasn’t my girlfriend because she had never been punched in the head”.

  16. Our entire path of life, is full of scams! Thousands of lives are lost every day because of scams! 

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