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A 53-year-old French pistillate who believed she was successful a romanticist narration with Brad Pitt said she was swindled retired of $850,000 successful a catfishing scheme.
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A French pistillate says she's retired thousands of dollars aft being catfished by a idiosyncratic allegedly posing arsenic Brad Pitt.
The 53-year-old—who identified herself as Anne—recently appeared connected French quality amusement Sept à huit to stock her story, saying she mislaid astir each of her beingness savings aft being duped into believing she was successful a romanticist narration with the Oscar winner.
Anne said was contacted successful February 2023 by idiosyncratic claiming to beryllium Brad's ma Jane Etta Hillhouse, who told her, "It's a pistillate similar you that my lad needs," per The Times.
Though Anne was initially skeptical, she said they continued their correspondence until a idiosyncratic claiming to beryllium Brad messaged her, "My parent told maine a batch astir you."
"At archetypal I said to myself that it was fake, that it's ridiculous," Anne recounted, according to French quality web BFM TV. "But I'm not utilized to societal media and I didn't truly recognize what was happening to me."
Anne said she started processing feelings aft receiving emotion poems from the impersonator.
"There are truthful fewer men who constitute you this benignant of thing," she explained. "I liked the antheral I was talking to. He knew however to speech to women, it was ever precise good done."
And erstwhile Anne divulged that she had travel into a divorcement colony with her ex-husband, the scammer allegedly started asking her for money. Anne said the idiosyncratic posing arsenic Brad claimed helium had been locked retired of his slope accounts owed to his divorce from Angelina Jolie and needed a indebtedness for expected crab treatments.
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"It wounded maine to bash it," she shared, "but I told myself that I mightiness prevention a man's life."
During her quality connected Sept à huit, Anne showed photos she said she had received arsenic impervious of Brad's alleged hospitalization. The images, depicting the Fight Club histrion transposed implicit infirmary backdrops, appeared to beryllium AI-generated.
Anne said she lone realized she had been swindled successful the summertime of 2024, erstwhile the existent Brad stepped retired with woman Ines de Ramon. By then, she said she had sent astir $850,000 to the fake Brad.
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Per BFM TV, Anne has since filed a ailment with instrumentality enforcement officials astir her situation.
"I inquire myself wherefore they chose maine to bash specified harm similar this?" she said during her quality connected Sept à huit, according to French outlet AFP. "I've ne'er harmed anyone. These radical merit hell."
E! News has reached retired to Brad's reps for remark but hasn't heard back.
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