“The Tinder scammer”, explains himself to “Inside Edition”

“I was just a bachelor looking to meet girls on Tinder,” says Simon Leviev, real name Shimon Yehuda Hayut, in an interview excerpt.

Three women recount in the hit Netflix documentary,

, inspired by the investigation by the Norwegian newspaper

published in 2019, how a certain Simon Leviev, presented as a diamond billionaire, extorted colossal sums from them.

The 31-year-old Israeli who had refused to speak in the documentary agreed to come out of silence for Inside Edition where he intervenes in duplex from Tel Aviv alongside his partner, the model Kate Konlin.

A first trailer for the interview, which will be broadcast in two parts on Monday and Tuesday, was unveiled by the American channel.

We see the young man, sentenced for having defrauded three Finnish women in 2015, deny the facts.

"I'm not the Tinder scammer," he insists in the released excerpt.

The documentary tells how this man with the false air of Prince Charming extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the women he met and seduced through the famous dating app.

He developed an ultra-well-crafted Ponzi scheme that allowed him to maintain a princely lifestyle, while letting women believe he loved them.

After the Norwegian newspaper

's investigation was published , Shimon was sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment in Israel for fraud.

He was released after five months.

Since the documentary aired in early February, he has been banned from Tinder.

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