Brad Pitt responds to woman being scammed with his AI likeness
Brad Pitt's spokesperson has responded to news of a woman being scammed using an AI generated likeness of him.
Brad Pitt has addressed news of a woman in France being scammed out of out of over $800,000 by someone impersonating him using AI.
The woman, known as Anne, was made to believe she was in a relationship with Pitt and was scammed into paying âŹ830,000 (ÂŁ700,000) to help him pay medical bills. This lasted for a year and a half, during which Anne was tricked into thinking Pitt needed cancer treatment because his accounts had been frozen during divorce proceedings with Angelina Jolie.
Anne was first contacted in February 2023 after she joined Instagram to share photos of a skiing holiday in the French Alps. She was contacted by an account claiming to be Pittâs mother Jane, who began chatting to her and suggested she would be a good match for her son. Then, a person pretending to be the actor got in touch asking to know more about her.
The person operating the fake Pitt account used fake social media and WhatsApp accounts, as well as AI-generated selfies and other messages, including poems, songs and an apparent copy of Pittâs passport.
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She only realised she had been scammed when she saw photos of the actor this summer with his partner, Inés de Ramon.
In response to this, a spokesperson for Pitt said: âItâs awful that scammers take advantage of the strong bond between fans and celebrities.
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âThis is an important reminder not to respond to unsolicited online messages, especially from actors who are not present on social networks.â
Police are currently investigating the scam, which left Anne in hospital with depression. She realised she was being scammed in the summer of 2024, when the real Pitt was seen with his new partner, jewellery designer Ines de Ramon.
As for the real Pitt, meanwhile, he and Jolie reached a divorce settlement at the end of December, eight years after Jolie filed to end their marriage citing irreconcilable differences.