AI Brad Pitt cons woman into handing over €800,000 after scammer convinced her she was dating Hollywood star
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Computer-generated fake of the Fight Club star tricked the victim into thinking he was hospitalised with kidney cancer and Angelina Jolie was blocking access to his fortune. The 53-year-old French woman said the “relationship” began soon after she received a message from an account claiming to be Jane Etta Pitt, the Hollywood star’s mother, telling her she was exactly the woman her son needed. The computer-generated imitation of the Fight Club actor messaged her the next day, asking to know more about her.
![[Her fake AI lover would send her poems, declarations of love and eventually asked her to marry him]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/14/14/brad-pitt2.jpg)
Over the next year-and-a-half, her fake ‘lover’ would send her poems, declarations of love and eventually asked her to marry him - in an elaborate plot by scammers designed to get her to hand over money. Police are now investigating the con that left the woman hospitalised with depression.
![[Her fake lover– still impersonating the actor claimed he was in hospital with kidney cancer and needed money for treatment]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/14/14/brad-pitt1.jpg)
“There are few men who write to you like that,” the interior designer told French media. “I loved the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women and it was very well put together.”. She was going through a divorce with a millionaire entrepreneur, 19 years her senior, at the time, according to French newspaper Sud Ouest.
The requests for money began as the scammer behind the AI claimed to be sending her luxurious handbags - but told her she had to foot the customs bill - the first being €9,000. Eventually, the AI – still impersonating the actor – claimed he was in hospital with kidney cancer and needed money for treatment.
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