Shimon Hayut from Netflix’s ‘Tinder Swindler’ banned by relationship app

Shimon Hayut, the con man introduced in Netflix’s new documentary “The Tinder Swindler,” has been faraway from the relationship app Tinder as per studies. The documentary, directed by Felicity Morris, was launched on Netflix on February 2. Shimon Hayut, who swindled many ladies on the favored relationship app Tinder, is the topic of the sequence.
Tinder confirmed in an announcement to Variety on Friday that “we’ve performed inside investigations and might verify Simon Leviev is now not energetic on Tinder beneath any of his recognized aliases.
The customers of the favored relationship app can longer swipe proper Shimon Hayut, also called “Simon Leviev”, a typical who poses because the billionaire son of a Russian-Israeli diamond magnate and lured a number of girls by offering them with lavish items, flying them by non-public jet to luxurious accommodations all over the world and expressing his love—then asking them to ship him cash, incessantly telling them that his life was in grave peril from his “enemies”.
Describing him as “Prince of Diamonds”, Hayut requested girls to take out their American Express bank cards and pestered them to extend their spending limits and borrow him money that he by no means repaid.
Shimon is an Israeli convicted legal. He met a number of girls utilizing relationship apps, then arrange credit score and debt traces of their names, leaving them with the funds. He is accused of duping girls into believing his id was “Simon Leviev” and that he was the son of Israeli diamond magnate Lev Leviev earlier than defrauding them for tens of millions of {dollars}.
While Tinder has now banned him, he nonetheless has an Instagram account with over 200,000 followers, based on Variety. Hayut said in an Instagram publish on Friday that he was ready to current his model of the story. However, when Variety visited his Instagram profile on Friday afternoon, it was marked as “no longer available.”
“The Tinder Swindler” premiered on Netflix on Wednesday, and Variety reported on Friday that Netflix is in discussions with producers about turning the documentary right into a characteristic movie.