French woman loses €830,000 to scammers posing as Brad Pitt using AI tools. Scam involved AI-generated images, fake promises, and emotional manipulation. Victim's plea sparks investigation ...

A romance scammer who pretended to be an ailing Brad Pitt suckered a French woman out of $850,000 by using AI-generated hospital selfies of the “Fight Club” hunk to tug at her heartstrings.

The scammers used fake, AI-generated photos of the megastar actor that led the French woman to believe she was communicating with the real Brad Pitt. By McKinley Franklin A French woman says she ...

TL;DR: A woman named Anne was scammed out of $855,000 by someone using AI-generated photos and videos pretending to be Brad Pitt. The scammer, posing as Pitt, convinced her to send money for ...

An AI-generated Brad Pitt scammed a French woman out of over $800,000 after she was convinced that they were in love and he needed money for cancer treatment. The woman, known as Anne, handed over ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A woman was scammed into handing over €830,000 (£700,000) by an AI-generated Brad Pitt, who convinced her they were in love and needed money ...

The victim in this instance was a 53-year-old French woman, who sent $850,000 to a scammer that used AI-generated content to convince her she was in a relationship with Hollywood star Brad Pitt.

Marni Rose McFall is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on U.S. politics, social affairs and popular culture. She has covered fashion, culture, art and music extensively.

(Photo by Qian Jun/MB Media/Getty Images) Brad Pitt has addressed news of a woman in France being scammed ... and WhatsApp accounts, as well as AI-generated selfies and other messages, including ...