Simon Leviev has been banned from all dating apps.
Simon Leviev, the subject of Netflix’s new documentary “The Tinder Swindler,” was banned from dating apps like Tinder and Hinge after the filmmakers alleged he had scammed several women for an estimated total of $10 million. Hayut, who called himself the “Prince of Diamonds,” asked the women to take out American Express credit cards and hounded them to increase their spending limits and loan him cash that he never repaid.
Dating app users can no longer swipe right on Shimon Hayut, also known as “Simon Leviev,” the man who, as detailed by the documentary, posed as the billionaire son of a Russian-Israeli diamond tycoon and wooed multiple women by showering them with lavish goods, flying them by private jet to luxury hotels around the world and professing his love — then demanding they send him money, frequently claiming his life was in grave danger from his “enemies.”
“The Tinder Swindler” follows three women who said they were conned by Leviev, an Israeli man they all met separately on Tinder sometime in 2018 or 2019.
In the documentary, the women alleged that Leviev — whose real name is Shimon Hayut — claimed he was the son of a wealthy tycoon, took them out on extravagant dates and started relationships with them before he eventually scammed them out of large sums of money.
At the time of its release on Feb. 2, “The Tinder Swindler” said Hayut was back on Tinder — which the company denied in a statement.
“We banned Simon Leviev and any of his known aliases as soon as the story of his actions became public in 2019,” a Tinder spokeswoman said.
