Brad Pitt has issued a cautionary statement in response to the viral story about a French woman who divorced her husband and handed over her life savings to a scammer posing as the actor by using crude AI images.

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Brad Pitt has issued a statement in the wake of a scammer conning a French woman out of $850,000 under the guise of being the Hollywood star. 53-year-old Anne was contacted just after joining Instagram by an account claiming to be the actor's mother, who told her that her "son" needed a kidney transplant and was in need of financial assistance.