There's getting weak-kneed at the sight of Brad Pitt on the silver screen, and then there's falling hopelessly in love with Brad Pitt, conducting a yearlong online romance, and sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to the down-on-his-luck actor for cancer treatment.

A woman was conned into thinking she was in a relationship with actor Brad Pitt and scammed out of nearly $1 million.

Brad Pitt has a handful of self-proclaimed look-alike fans, but scammers upped the ante in 2023 when they created an AI version of the A-lister and swindled a French woman out of $855,000. The victim,