A french woman alleges she was scammed of $850,000 by an Al Brad Pitt.
The 53-year-old interior designer, Anne, was contacted by a scammer on Facebook who pretended to be Pitt’s mother, Jane and claimed that Pitt needed kidney treatment.
“She told me that her son needed someone like me,” Anne said on a Sunday episode of Seven to Eight on French TV channel TF1. “But I’m not used to social media and I didn’t really understand what was happening to me.”
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the scammer convinced the woman to send large amounts of money to help cover Pitt’s kidney treatment after sending her multiple photos and messages. To explain the need for money, the scammer claimed that Pitt could not access his bank accounts because of his divorce from Angelina Jolie.
“At first I said to myself that it was fake, that it’s ridiculous,” Anne told TF1, according to BFM TV. “But I’m not used to social media and I didn’t really understand what was happening to me.”
The woman, who TF1 says struggles with mental health problems, left her husband because of the scam before realizing she’d been conned after seeing news reports about Pitt’s real-life girlfriend, Ines de Ramon.
“I ask myself why they chose me to do such harm like this?” she said. “I’ve never harmed anyone. These people deserve hell.”
The report says Anne filed a police report over the scam.
