Shimon Hayut: Last News

The Tinder Swindler could reportedly soon be turned into a feature film courtesy of Netflix.According to Variety, the streaming giant is in early talks with producers about turning the hit documentary into a dramatisation about Israeli conman Shimon Hayut who swindled a number of women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.Netflix declined to comment on the development of the film at the time of writing, the tone of which remains unclear.Hayut gave a new interview yesterday (February 21), in which he claimed the women in the Netflix documentary “weren’t conned”.“I’m not this monster,” Hayut said of the claims of The Tinder Swindler. “I was just a single guy that wanted to meet some girls on Tinder.”Victims Cecilie Fjellhøy, Ayleen Koeleman and Pernilla Sjoholm recently set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to repay their debts after being conned.“You’re probably here because you’ve heard about our story, and we appreciate you taking the time to search and find this page,” they wrote.

When it comes to the Armie Hammer controversy, many of us (understandably) tend to focus on the cannibalism part. But remember the claim that he was using his ladies for cash?

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.

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Manori Ravindran International Editor“The Tinder Swindler,” an eye-opening documentary about a notorious con man who used the dating app to defraud multiple women, could be getting the movie treatment.Variety understands that Netflix is in talks with producers about dramatizing the wild documentary that’s likely to make any Tinder user’s blood run cold. Sources indicate that the conversation is in early stages, and that the tone of a potential film is still being worked out.“The Tinder Swindler” debuted on the streaming service only on Wednesday, and it’s already cracking the platform’s Top 10 lists in the U.S.

Netfix's latest true crime documentary called Tinder Swindler takes a look at the shocking case of con artist Simon Leviev, who tricked women into thinking he was the "prince of diamonds".The Israeli fraudster would pressure women across Europe to take out hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit for him to use, after getting close to them on dating app Tinder.Simon had convinced them he was the son of wealthy Russian diamond tycoon Lev Leviev, and showered them with extravagant gifts.On the surface he seemed like the perfect guy – he would wine and dine them, and splash out on lavish gifts and trips on private jets.But after a while he would convince them that the diamond industry was so dangerous he wasn't able to take out credit cards in his own name, so he would get them to do it for him.In reality he was a convicted conman called Shimon Hayut, who had previously served three years in a Finnish prison for defrauding several women into funding his lifestyle.Simon had been defrauding women for years, and was reported for crimes in Israel, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway and England.He had already been charged with forgery, fraud and theft in 2011 in Israel, but failed to appear in court.He was later convicted of three counts of major fraud in 2015. An additional criminal case was launched against him in 2017, but he failed to appear again.Warrants for his arrest were issued, and Simon was eventually captured in Greece for using a fake passport in 2019.With the help of Interpol and Israeli police he was then extradited to Israel.

Netflix's latest true crime documentary, The Tinder Swindler, lands on the streaming service on February 2 and tells the story of one man's scheme to con women out of thousands of pounds via a dating app.Described as "the jaw-dropping story of a prolific conman who posed as a billionaire playboy on Tinder, and the women who set out to bring him down", the new series follows conman Shimon Hayut on his journey from crime to prison time.After posing as a billionaire CEO and legally changing his name to Simon Leviev to make his story more authentic, Shimon would contact women via Tinder and take them on lavish dates, before asking them for money - which he would use to seduce his next victim.He was eventually caught in 2019 and given a lengthy prison sentence, but the victims were left shocked after Shimon Hayut was released from prison after just five months.He had originally been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay his victims $43,289 in compensation in December 2019, by Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court.However, Shimon was later given early release in May 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The Times of Israel reported that Shimon had met the conditions for his early release, under the program aimed at reducing the prison population due to the outbreak of Covid-19.His early release was met with shock and anger by his victims, with Pernilla Sjoholm, who speaks as part of the Tinder Swindler documentary, saying to Channel 12 news: "I was in shock from the decision to release him."She added: "He deceived people and left prison after five months?"How can you give trust to a man like that, who escaped from Israel twice? A man that deceived and swindled women in Europe for hundreds of thousands of euros.

The Tinder Swindler is the jaw-dropping story of a prolific conman who posed as a billionaire playboy to scam a string of women.

Manori Ravindran International EditorNetflix has picked up global rights to the documentary “Tinder Swindler,” about a notorious con man who lured women using the popular dating app and tricked them out of millions of dollars.Produced by “Three Identical Strangers” and “Don’t F*** With Cats” makers Raw TV, alongside AGC Studios, the doc tells the story of Israeli fraudster Shimon Hayut, who conned Scandinavian women into parting with hundreds of thousands of dollars by pretending to be a Russian oligarch named Simon Leviev on the dating app Tinder.The documentary, directed by Felicity Morris (“Don’t F*** With Cats”), follows the women who were conned by Hayut as they uncover his true identity and bring him to justice.