Millions of people have recently looked up Shimon Yehuda’s Wikipedia bio. His life of crime had inspired Netflix’s The Tinder Swindler.
Shimon Yehuda Hayut is the main character in the crime documentary, The Tinder Swindler. It arrives on Netflix on Wednesday 2nd February 2022.
The documentary focuses on the unreliability of strangers on online dating apps. It is truly based on the conman Hayut who was arrested in 2019.
Who Is Shimon Hayut?
Shimon Hayut is a fraudster who conned many through a dating app. He was arrested in the year 2019 for posing himself as a billionaire.
Hayut used the infamous Tinder app to rob multiple women. He faked himself as the son of billionaire diamond mogul, Lev Leviev.
According to the app, he was known as Simon Leviev, The Prince of Diamonds.
He persuaded a number of women to fund his extravagant lifestyle of private jets, luxury hotels, and fast cars.
shimon hayut the scammer pic.twitter.com/PIcNvJqNzj
— Hollywoodwife (@Hollywoodwife_) January 13, 2022
Hayut was actually born in 1991, in the city of Bnei Brak in central Israel. He is the son of Yohanan Hayut, the chief rabbi of El Al Airlines.
The con man had attended a Talmud Torah elementary school as a child. He has been labeled as an experienced thief from his childhood.
Hayut was charged with theft, forgery, and fraud in 2014. Ultimately, he was sentenced to three years in prison, although was released in bails.
Using the Leviev surname, Hayut robbed three girls on Tinder. He would lure them with his extravagant lifestyle, soon running a Ponzi scheme.
The Twitter Swindler had defrauded over more than $10 million USD from his scheme.
Where Is The Tinder Swindler Main Character Now?
The Tinder Swindler’s main character Shimon Hayut was arrested in 2019. Although, due to Covid breakthrough he was released from jail.
He had recently made headlines for impersonating a frontline worker so that he could get the vaccines.
A 28-year-old Israeli yahoo boy, Shimon Hayut, has been arrested in Greece for scamming hundred of women of thousands of dollars after posing as the son of a billionaire. pic.twitter.com/GtvhYpEb5M
— Hammurabi (@iskuburi407) July 7, 2019
Shimon Hayut Crazy Life Inspired Netflix’s The Tinder Swindler
Three of Shimon Hayut’s victims band together in The Tinder Swindler to tell their stories. It has been directed by the celebrated Felicity Morris.
The three women are – Cecilie Fjellhoy, Pernilla Sjoholm and Ayleen Charlotte.
They matched and fell in love. That’s when their dream man became their worst nightmare — so these three women teamed up to take down the man who conned them.
The Tinder Swindler — an incredible true crime documentary — premieres February 2 pic.twitter.com/j38mI3OATD
— Netflix (@netflix) January 11, 2022
Fjellhoy, 29, had matched with Shimon back in 2018. She was a student in London who was persuaded to Hayut’s personal jet in Bulgaria.
The woman from London had later found herself in over $200,000 debt.
Shimon’s next victim Pernilla Sjoholm is a Swedish woman. He splurged her over $10,000 by taking her to the opera in a limousine.
The Swedish woman lent Shimon $45,000, which he later repaid with a fake watch. She had filed a complaint against the serial fraudster.
Shimon had never stopped his crime, he persuaded many other women including, Ayleen Charlotte.