A French woman was duped out of more than €800,000 by an online scammer who posed as Brad Pitt and used AI to generate images of the Hollywood star to convince her he was real

A woman conned into forking out more than €800,000 to a fraudster impersonating Brad Pitt using AI technology is now without a home and skint, reports claim. Known only as Anne in media reports, she's been hounded so badly online that she's wiped her social media accounts, it's believed.

Since the news of her plight broke, the 53 year-old has been slammed by internet trolls as "dumb", "naïve" and "stupid". .

Anne was duped into thinking the A-lister needed the dosh for cancer treatment after being convinced she was chatting with the real McCoy, thanks to AI-generated snaps. The French woman admitted she fell for the con artist as her marriage to her wealthy hubby was on the rocks, and she was swept off her feet by poems and romantic moves.

Now, her solicitor Laurène Hanna says Anne is desperately trying to claw back the cash, leaving her homeless and penniless. Paris-based Ms Hanna remarked: "Love scams on the internet are not new. Anne is really not the only one. What my client needs is to be given some sensible advice and to be treated with dignity."

Ms Hanna explained she's aiding Anne in a civil lawsuit against her French bank for letting her send such massive sums abroad without batting an eyelid, reports the Mirror.

Anne, who works as an interior designer, revealed the nightmare began when she got a message on social media from someone pretending to be the actor's mum, following her post about a swanky ski holiday in Tignes on Instagram.

The next day, she got another message from someone pretending to be Brad Pitt, telling her his mum had been chatting loads about her. The victim, who was having a tough time with her loaded hubby, shared how she started an unexpected bond with the fake account in February 2023, getting poems and sweet messages.

"There are so few men who write you this kind of thing. I liked the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women, it was always very well done," she spilled to BFMTV. She admitted she was wary at first, thinking it was all a con, but after daily chats and getting AI-made snaps and clips of the actor, she let her guard down.

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