Fake Pics of Brad Pitt Dupe Woman Out of $850K in Romance Scam | TMZ Live - video Dailymotion

TMZ

Tough times for a middle-aged French woman who got scammed out of $850K, fooled into thinking she was dating Brad Pitt after being duped by manipulated images of the actor.

Transcript

00:00Brad Pitt and his romance with a woman in France,

00:04or at least she thought she was having a romance with Brad Pitt.

00:08It was not the Brad Pitt,

00:10but she has a lot of photos of Brad Pitt

00:14that made her decide that she wanted to help him out financially.

00:19By the way, if you think-

00:20This is a scam victim that-

00:22If you think you've heard this story before,

00:24this is going to go to another level in a second.

00:27So just be prepared.

00:28When you understand what she did.

00:29Now, this woman in France believed that she was

00:33having an online interaction with Brad Pitt.

00:36And the person, the scammer, who was interacting with her

00:40was sending photos of Brad Pitt saying,

00:42I'm in the hospital.

00:44Your name is Anne.

00:46He said, Anne, I love you.

00:48I need help with my medical bills.

00:52And you go, well, if you're the woman-

00:54If you're Brad Pitt-

00:56Well, if you're Brad Pitt, how come you don't have money?

00:57He had an answer for that.

00:58He said, all my money is tied up in this battle,

01:02divorce battle with Angelina.

01:05Where we're, you know, in France,

01:07it's a very well-known thing, obviously,

01:08that there is a castle they co-own there.

01:11This was a big thing in their divorce.

01:13By the way, that's still going on.

01:15The castle part of it.

01:15They're fighting over this winery they've got.

01:17Yes, and so that was the explanation for why he needed money.

01:20Not only did she send him more than $800,000,

01:26but you may go, where did she get that $800,000?

01:29She divorced her husband,

01:32and that is part of the property settlement.

01:35The husband had millions of dollars.

01:38She used her property settlement in the divorce

01:42to send money to fake Brad Pitt.

01:45So what made, when was the jig up here?

01:48When did she go, wait a second.

01:51It was when she saw photos of Brad Pitt

01:55with his, the real Brad Pitt,

01:57with his real-life girlfriend, Inez,

02:00and they were out at an event.

02:02She happened to see these photos and thought,

02:04he looks healthy and not destined.

02:05He's not in the hospital,

02:07and he's with some woman who's not me.

02:09Okay, there's that.

02:10Charles, let's back up for a second,

02:11because you said the scammer sent her photos.

02:14These photos are those cartoonishly AI,

02:16poorly Photoshopped pictures of Brad Pitt

02:18with perfect hair, smiling in a hospital bed.

02:21Who falls for this?

02:22You know, you get these emails and these texts,

02:25and you think, who in the world would fall for that?

02:26Now we know.

02:28Even, yeah, she saw him with another woman.

02:30He's been out in public for months.

02:31Like, he's not in the hospital.

02:33He's not having a kidney transplant or whatever.

02:35It's alarming.

02:35I actually feel very badly for her.

02:37Oh, I feel terrible for her.

02:38Because it's easy for us to look at it and go like,

02:41oh, that's obvious.

02:42You're right, Eric.

02:42I mean, those images are-

02:43It's easy for anybody to look at it and do that.

02:44But- Yeah.

02:46Because also the reason how this all started

02:47was because someone claiming to be Brad Pitt's mother

02:49reached out to her on Facebook,

02:51first alarm right there,

02:52saying, you'd be perfect for my son.

02:55Who believes that? Yeah.

02:56Yeah.

02:57I mean, it's-

02:58I mean, I feel bad for her getting swindled

03:00out of her money, but it's hard to defend.

03:01Swindled out of her money, ends her marriage.

03:04We should say, this is not like an elderly woman.

03:07You hear a lot of times-

03:08She's 53. 53.

03:09She's 53 years old.

03:11That, you would think this is one, you know,

03:12somebody 90 years old is lonely.

03:14No, she's a 53-year-old who was married-

03:17The really sad part, obviously,

03:20she's, this has been reported to the police.

03:22She reported it last year.

03:23And they have no idea where this guy is.

03:24They have not been able to find him.

03:27And I just feel really bad for her.

03:29He's now Robert De Niro.

03:32Probably running that scam with someone.

03:34Hi, this is Enam from Toronto, Canada.

03:36And initially I felt so bad for this woman,

03:40especially because romance scams have become

03:42super prevalent with the technological advances in AI.

03:45But then I saw the images and I was like, girl,

03:47I could put that together on Microsoft Paint,

03:50especially the one for the surgery table.

03:52That almost sent me over the edge.

03:55I need Netflix writers to get in the workplace

03:58and start writing a six series episode show.

04:01And we need the husband being the scammer

04:04because that truly would be unreal.

04:07That theory, by the way, is going around.

04:09And we're not saying it's true, but the theory is crazy

04:12that the husband played Brad Pitt

04:15so that she would give him the money

04:18and that he lost in the divorce

04:19and he would get the money back.

04:21No evidence of that, but it's kind of going around.

Fake Pics of Brad Pitt Dupe Woman Out of $850K in Romance Scam | TMZ Live

Category

Transcript

Recommended