A computer-generated fake Brad Pitt used by a scammer has duped a 53-year-old French interior designer into thinking he was hospitalized with kidney cancer and needed funds to pay for it.

The victim, known only as Anne, paid out the equival…

A 53-year-old French woman was scammed out of $850,000 when she was convinced she was dating the actor Brad Pitt after being sent AI-generated images of the actor.

Newsweek has reached out to a representative for the French government via a…

UPDATE: 1/16/25 at 12:53 p.m. ET --- Brad Pitt has broken his silence after a woman came forward saying a scammer conned her out of more than $800,000 by claiming to be the Fight Club actor and making her believe the two were in a romantic …

A French woman who revealed on television how she had lost her life savings to scammers posing as Brad Pitt, has faced a wave of online harassment and mockery, leading the interview to be withdrawn on Tuesday.

The woman, named as Anne, told…

A French woman who was conned out of €830,000 (£700,000; $850,000) by scammers posing as actor Brad Pitt has faced a huge wave of mockery, leading French broadcaster TF1 to withdraw a programme about her.

The primetime programme, which aire…

A woman was deceived by a series of AI deepfakes and fake social media accounts into believing she was in a long-term romantic relationship with Brad Pitt.

The French native was scammed out of €830,000 ($857,900) after being deceived into t…

Fraudsters have scammed a French woman out of €830,000 by making her believe she was dating Brad Pitt. The victim has faced an onslaught of online harassment -- revealing quite to what extent empathy and human decency is in short supply whe…

Brad Pitt has criticized the person who scammed a 53-year-old French woman out of $850,000 while pretending to be the Oscar-winning actor.

Newsweek emailed a spokesperson for Pitt for comment on Thursday outside of normal business hours.

Wh…

Who is hiding behind the fake Brad Pitt? This is the question that the financial brigade's investigations will have to try to answer, four days after the broadcast of the TF1 report on Anne's misadventure. This 53-year-old woman was swindle…

A happily-ever-after with someone a woman believed was Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt quickly turned into a living nightmare.

On Jan. 12, the French television channel TF1 aired an episode of its show "Sept à Huit," which told the story of a 53-y…

Brad Pitt's representatives are reminding fans the actor is not active on social media following reports that a French woman was scammed out of over $800,000 by someone who posed as Pitt.

"It’s awful that scammers take advantage of fans’ st…

The scammers tricked the victim, identified as 53-year-old Anne by French broadcaster TF1, into believing she was in a romantic relationship with the 61-year-old Hollywood star by using AI-generated photos.

The case illustrates how Nigerian…

If the movie star of your dreams said he loved you and needed money, would you give it to him?

Unfortunately, many would. Nearly 70,000 people reported a romance scam to the Federal Trade Commission in 2022, totaling a staggering $1.3 billi…

It was a story destined to become a miniseries, one of those that can be devoured in a weekend. When French TV aired the story of Anne, a 53-year-old interior designer who divorced her husband and donated €800,000 to a fake Brad Pitt who cl…