Simon Leviev is doubling down that he’s not the so-called “Tinder Swindler”. Leviev, born Shimon Hayut, sat down with “Inside Edition”, which will air a two-part interview next week in which he denies being the man accused of swindling women he met on Tinder out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
He gained the infamous moniker after becoming the subject of the hit Netflix documentary. “I am not the ‘Tinder Swindler,'” Leviev tells “Inside Edition”. “I was just a single guy that wanted to meet girls on Tinder.” Entertainment Weekly also quoted Leviev claiming that the streaming giant made up the narrative. “They present it as a documentary but in truth, it’s like a complete[ly] made-up movie,” Leviev’s quoted as saying.
In a preview of the interview, Leviev is also seen with a new girlfriend, who kisses him on the lips after appearing from behind him.
In the doc, which is currently one of the most-watched movies on Netflix, Leviev 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.
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