A French woman has been scammed out of her life savings and even divorced her husband after being duped by AI-generated images of Brad Pitt in the hospital.
The woman, identified as Anne in the interview on the French radio program “Seven to Eight” on the TF1 channel, sent the scammers more than $850,000 over the course of one year. The 53-year-old interior designer explained how she was contacted by someone claiming to be Pitt’s mother via social media.
“It’s a woman like you that my son needs,” the woman posing as Pitt’s mother said, per People. Anne claimed to be skeptical at first but eventually believed it was true after being contacted by someone posing as Pitt himself.
“At first I said to myself that it was fake, that it’s ridiculous,” Anne told TF1. “But I’m not used to social media and I didn’t really understand what was happening to me.”
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