Actor Simon Leviev (1990)

The Brits made a true crime flick, The Tinder Swindler (2022), directed by Felicity Morris and released on Netflix. An Israeli, Shimon Hayut, went around Europe posing as the son of Russian-Israeli diamond tycoon Lev Leviev aka the Diamond King. Using dating app Tinder under the alias Simon Leviev, he fooled women into giving him money that he never returned. He dazzled them with extravagant gifts and took them on fancy private jet dinners funded by other unsuspecting victims. He then claimed to be in danger from his “enemies”, sending identical messages and photos to each woman, claiming he had narrowly ...