Brad Pitt responds after catfisher impersonated him using AI to scam French woman out of $850K

A representative for Brad Pitt is warning the public to ignore unsolicited DMs from supposed celebrities after a romance scammer impersonated the “Fight Club” actor with AI-generated selfies to dupe a French woman out of $850,000.“It’s awful that scammers take advantage of fans’ strong connection with celebrities, but this is an important reminder to not respond to unsolicited online outreach, especially from actors who have no social media presence,” Pitt’s rep told E! News.Pitt doesn’t have any official social media accounts — on Instagram, X or TikTok.

But it was supposedly his mother, Jane Etta Pitt, who first got in touch with the catfishing victim, a 53-year-old interior designer named Anne, the woman told the French TV show “Seven to Eight” on Sunday.Anne said the fake Jane reached out to say that her famous, Emmy-winning son — who was twice named the “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine — “needed someone like me.”The interior designer — who was in the middle of a divorce from her much older millionaire husband — didn’t believe the message could be real — at least at first.

“We’re talking about Brad Pitt here, and I was stunned,” Anne said.“At first, I thought it was fake, but I didn’t really understand what was happening to me.”Still, she responded to the message and eventually began conversing with who she believed to be Pitt himself.They chatted over the next 18 months, with the fake star starting a budding romance — sending sappy poems, declarations of love and eventually a marriage proposal, according to the Independent.The faux-Pitt then confided in Anne that he was diagnosed with kidney cancer and needed money to pay for his treatments since Pitt’s real-life ex, Angelina Jolie, had reportedly frozen his bank accounts.To prove he was cancer-stricken, the texter sent Anne photos of Pitt in a hospital gown from a hospital bed and an email from a “doctor” saying the Oscar-winning actor was ...