Simon Leviev, better known by his repulsive pseudonym The Tinder The swindler is being sued by a wealthy, diamond-rich family he claims is part of when he cheats on women with hundreds of thousands of dollars using a dating app.
The defamation lawsuit was filed Monday in the Tel Aviv Magistrates’ Court in Israel on behalf of the real Levi family, whose patriarch, Israeli Lev Leviev, a 65-year-old businessman, is a diamond billionaire tycoon known as the “King of Diamonds.”
The case lists Simon Leviev – whose real name is Shimon Heyada Hayut – as a defendant after he allegedly pretended to be the son of an app tycoon to defraud many women in bars around the world for nearly $ 10 million.
Simon Leviev, better known by his repulsive nickname “The Tinder Swidler”, has been sued by a wealthy, diamond-rich family he claims to be part of when he cheats on women with hundreds of thousands of dollars using a dating app
The malicious defamation lawsuit was filed Monday in Israel’s magistrates’ court in Tel Aviv on behalf of Israeli tycoon Lev Leviev, 65, a billionaire diamond tycoon with the King of Diamonds tab.
Leviev’s real lawyer, Guy Ofir, said TMZ Monday said the filing was only the first step in a “comprehensive legal war” the family is waging against the 31-year-old Hayut, as well as anyone who has helped with his schemes.
Ofir said the family wanted justice for the “malice” raised against Leviev’s name, the newspaper said Monday afternoon.
According to TMZ, the documentation details the ways in which Simon allegedly took advantage of the family, including changing his name to give off wealth and entice women with private jets, yachts and luxury cars, telling them that is the son of the famous billionaire.
“He is a swindler and fraudster who changed his name for criminal purposes while identifying himself as a member of the Levi family and a reputation for the applicants,” said a translated part of the lawsuit, according to Rolling Stone.
Ofir said in a statement Monday that the case was “the first in a series of lawsuits the Levi family has instructed me to take against the swindler and his accomplices.”
Simon Leviev (pictured left in a photo he took with Lev Leviev and his wife Olga) – whose real name is Shimon Heyada Hayut – pretended to be the son of the app mogul to deceive many women in locations around the world. a world of nearly $ 10 million
He added: “In the coming days, a monetary lawsuit will be filed against the swindler and anyone involved in his past and present actions.
“In the same way, a lawsuit will be filed against the sites that chose to join the scammer and allow him to sell paid greetings while exploiting his victims.”
The legal eagle then revealed that the Leviev family would donate all the money they received during the trial to other famous victims of Hayut.
Ofir did not immediately return DailyMail.com’s request for comment Monday night.
However, the lawyer’s website confirmed that the lawsuit was filed on Monday.
A representative of Simon Leviev also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Hayut, who is also an Israeli, has told many women for several years that he is the son of an Israeli-Russian billionaire – a man Forbes once called the “King of Diamonds” – and chief executive of Leviev’s LLD Diamonds.
Hayut, who is also from Israel, told many women for several years that he was the son of an Israeli-Russian billionaire.
The international swindler would dazzle his victims with his apparently luxurious lifestyle of private jets, designer clothes and five-star hotels – before tricking them into giving him shocking sums.
In a distorted Ponzi scheme, he would use the money he stole from them to lure his next target, showering them with trips abroad and hundreds of red roses and tables in VIP clubs.
He left his victims with suicidal feelings, crippling bank debts and agony and humiliation to discover that their relationship with him was false.
Hayut was arrested for fraud in 2019 after a victim who became wise with his tricks reported him to Interpol for using a fake passport in Greece.
He was released the following May after serving five months of his 15-month sentence.
Hayut was arrested for fraud in 2019 after a victim who became wise with his tricks reported him to Interpol for using a fake passport in Greece. He was released the following May after serving five months of his 15-month sentence
Hayut denied all charges against him, saying he was “not a fraud and not a fake”, but instead a “legitimate businessman” who made his fortune by investing in bitcoin.
In an interview with CBS’s Inside Edition this week, he insisted: “I’m not that monster. I was just one person who wanted to meet a few girls on Tinder.
In the interview, he kissed his current girlfriend, Kate Conlin, an Israeli-Ukrainian model, on camera, while she accused his victims of creating a “fake story.”
However, the 24-year-old Conlin stands by his handsome man, despite the recent release of a Netflix documentary chronicle of his undercover feats, which is now seen by more than 50 million people worldwide.
Speaking for the first time since the release of the Netflix documentary in an exclusive two-part interview for Inside Edition with his girlfriend Kta Conlin, the 31-year-old Hayut said he was not a monster