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’
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent Brad Pitt has reacted to the viral story of a 53-year-old French woman who was swindled out of $850,000 by someone pretending to be the actor.
The story broke on Sunday on the TF1 show “Sept à huit,” which aired the testimony of Anne, a French interior decorator who described how she had been scammed by a fake Brad Pitt, with whom she thought she was having a long-distance romance for a year.
The hoax started when Anne, who was then married with a wealthy man (described in French media as a millionaire), was vacationing with her children in Tignes, in the French Alps, and downloaded Instagram to post pics of her ski trip.
The scammer first pretended to be Pitt’s mother and told her “that her son needed someone like me,” Anne said in the TF1 show.
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