Tinder Swindler 'Simon Leviev' reacts to show and vows to 'share his side of story'

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The Tinder Swindler is speaking out!

Simon Leviev, the subject of Netflix’s new documentary The Tinder Swindler, is telling his side of the story.

Simon Leviev, better known as “The Tinder Swindler”, is about to tell his side of the story.

Netflix’s The Tinder Swindler who scammed a group of women for millions of dollars, has joined Cameo.Hayut is estimated to have stolen $10million (£7.4million) from a number of victims under the alias of Simon Leviev, after gaining their trust with the promise of expensive dates.After being banned from Tinder and deleting his Instagram, Hayut has joined Cameo, the platform where fans can request personalised videos from celebrities. He’s charging $300 (£148) for personal video messages and $1,400 (£1,036) for business video content.The bio reads: “Excited to be on Cameo to wish the special person in your life whatever you need!”According to Entertainment Tonight, Hayut has also signed on with a talent manager, Gina Rodriguez of Gitoni Inc, in his pursuit of a career in the entertainment industry.

Netflix's documentary may not have seen the last of Simon Leviev.In the doc, which is currently one of the most-watched movies on Netflix, Leviev, born Shimon Hayut, is said to have posed as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul in order to woo women on Tinder and then con them out of money. The documentary does not say how many people Leviev allegedly swindled, but estimates he made around $10 million. Leviev has since been banned from the online dating app, and upon the release of the doc announced via Instagram Story that he was preparing to tell his version of events.

Fans of Netflix’s “Tinder Swindler” documentary may not have seen the last of Simon Leviev.

Cecilie Fjellhøy and Pernilla Sjöholm - two brave victims of the infamous Tinder Swindler - have had a whirlwind 10 days. On February 2, they appeared in a film which is now the only documentary to have topped Netflix’s global most-watched list.The Tinder Swindler, for those yet to jump on the hype, tells the story of Israeli con artist Simon Leviev who used the dating app Tinder to find women he then emotionally manipulated into ‘lending’ him hundreds of thousands of pounds to fuel his lavish lifestyle. His crimes were unimaginably sophisticated and had devastating consequences.

told NBC News. “In the lead up to the release of the documentary, we conducted additional internal investigations and can confirm Simon Leviev is not active on Tinder under any of his known aliases.”Furthermore, Leviev has been permanently banned from all apps owned by Tinder’s parent company Match Group Inc., which include Hinge, Match.com and OkCupid.To put a fine point on it, Tinder issued a set of guidelines titled “Romance Scams: How to Protect Yourself Online” the day before the documentary premiered.According to The Times of Israel, Leviev has been living as a free man since 2020. He regularly shares pictures of his extravagant lifestyle with his 100,000 Instagram followers.

French Montana has discovered he’s actually met The Tinder Swindler in the past.The rapper shared a photo on his Instagram Stories where he’s seen alongside conman Simon Leviev, real name Shimon Hayut, who is the subject of Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler.“I can’t believe I met the swindler,” Montana wrote on Instagram with the laughing emoji.He later reposted the same photo with laughing emojis and a new caption: “Hey we just left the hospital. French Montana is fine again, we are fine again, but our enemies are after us.

The Tinder Swindler tells the story of Simon Leviev, who posed as a billionaire's son to defraud three women out of thousands of dollars.The documentary follows the women on their mission to track down the man who tricked them after meeting them each on a dating app. Shimon Hayut, 31, known to his victims as Simon Leviev, is estimated to have stolen $10m (£7.4m) through expensive dates and manipulative ploys. Despite all the evidence featured in the Netflix documentary, Simon Leviev is currently dating a woman who denies all the claims.

After allegedly scamming multiple women on Tinder out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, Shimon Hayut has been permanently banned from the dating app.

No more swiping right for him!

Shimon Hayut, also known as “Simon Leviev” — the subject of Netflix’s new documentary, “The Tinder Swindler” — has been permanently banned from Tinder.

Netflix‘s new documentary The Tinder Swindler has deleted his Instagram page following his own reaction to the film.The popular doc, which was released last week on the streaming platform, follows the story of a group of women who were conned out of millions of dollars by a user on a dating app to fund his lifestyle.Shimon Hayut was estimated to have stolen $10million (£7.4million) from a number of victims, going under the alias of Simon Leviev and gaining trust under the premise of expensive dates.He recently posted a message on his Instagram account, before deleting it, writing: “Thank you for all your support.“I will share my side of the story in the next few days when I have sorted out the best and most respectful way to tell it, both to the involved parties and myself. Until then, please keep an open mind and heart.”Hayut was previously jailed in Israel over travelling with a fake passport, though was released five months into a 15-month sentence on good behaviour.Victims Cecilie Fjellhøy, Ayleen Koeleman and Pernilla Sjoholm have since set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to repay their debts after being conned.