After the blockbuster attention the documentary "The Tinder Swindler" received, Simon Leviev, or by his original name Shimon Hayut, returns to the screen. This time, however, it is an attempt to present his side of the story.
Leviev, and "Click.tv" announced an international original 'docu-reality' production with the participation of Simon Leviev. "SIMON SAYS:" is a 6-episode series that, according to the announcement: "gives a rare opportunity to enter the life and mind of someone who has become the most talked-about Israeli in the world."
In the trailer, Leviev presents some interesting topics and opens with a statement: "These days I'm working on developing a dating app", and then adds: "When I was a kid I wanted to be a movie star, and later I wanted to be an astronaut, I think I came close to both. I can't say what exactly I'm working on, but it's going to be huge, it will be my side of the story, the film brought a lot of opportunities to my life."
Regarding criticism from his own family, Simon responded with a harsh statement. "The Leviev family, they don't have anything, they can't claim anything, they can make pickles," claims the "Tinder swindler."
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"All this injustice that they did to me, all this shit that I'm dealing with now, they did me a fucking injustice. I spend 200 thousand dollars in two days on my security. Some people said that I would have 15 minutes of Glory, I will turn them into 15 years of glory."
"In February 2022, the documentary “The Tinder Swindler” appeared on the Netflix streaming service and garnered 166 million hours of viewing in less than a month - making the work the most watched documentary on Netflix to date," the announcement reads.
"A few months after going on air, the binational content division of click.tv contacted Simon Leviev, and reached an exclusive agreement with him, in order to give the many viewers the opportunity to find out who Simon really is, to enter his personal life, his thoughts and accompany him."
'Tinder Swindler' finds love in arms of model: 'It's a new relationship'https://t.co/U6rbiHqJ27
— TheSouthAfrican.com (@TheSAnews) September 7, 2022
Another swindling opportunity? Simon Leviev, who became infamous as the centre of the 'The Tinder Swindler' doccie, has found love again.
According to the original Netflix documentry, Shimon Hayut, or in his "stage name" Simon Leviev, faked being a tycoon. Expensive cars, airplanes, clothes that cost as much as a house, everything to impress the girls of the opposite sex with whom he began a persistent courtship campaign. In reality according to the film, he swindled those women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and left them heartbroken and in a financial pit.
