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There's a certain amount of identity protection inherent in being recognizable. If you roll up to a bank and say "hello I am international superstar Brad Pitt please give me a loan for ten million dollars because you know I'm good for it," they aren't going to buy it. To steal somebody's identity, you rely on people not realizing that you aren't actually your victim, and that in turn relies on most people not knowing who your victim is.

That said, celebrities do still face some identity security issues. The Fappening was one of the most notorious examples of this: various celebrities' cloud storage accounts were breached by using publicly-available information to answer their security questions. Having an account compromised is a form of identity theft, if not necessarily what most people think of, and that's definitely an elevated risk for celebrities. Fortunately for them, though, most accounts that could be accessed that way tend to be relatively inconsequential.