{"id":8473,"date":"2026-07-11T00:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/tinder-swindler-simon-leviev-settles-lawsuit-with-leviev-diamond-family\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:45:44","slug":"tinder-swindler-simon-leviev-settles-lawsuit-with-leviev-diamond-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/tinder-swindler-simon-leviev-settles-lawsuit-with-leviev-diamond-family\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tinder Swindler\u2019 Simon Leviev settles lawsuit with Leviev diamond family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F07%2F134025698.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The \u201cTinder Swindler\u201d has finally escaped the legal battles stemming from his adventures in online dating, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli man Shimon Hayut changed his name to Simon Leviev and claimed to be part of a billionaire diamond-trading family, with several women claiming he had used the guise to seduce and con them out of buckets of cash.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the real Leviev family sued Simon in their native Israel, claiming he\u2019d used their name to trick the women, as well as various businesses, causing enormous harm to the family\u2019s firms.<\/p>\n<p>The matter was resolved without any determination of guilt.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s the last of the legal challenges facing Simon.<\/p>\n<p>He served two and a half years in a Finnish prison after he was found guilty of defrauding the women. He also served 15 months in an Israeli prison after being convicted of four fraud charges, but was released after five months.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ was first to report on the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The tale was covered in a hit Netflitx documentary, the \u201cTinder Swindler,\u201d in 2022. It showed how he flaunted a luxurious, jet-setting lifestyle to convince the women he was an ultra-wealthy scion, only to come up with dire emergencies that, he claimed, he needed loans from the women to escape from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have suffered from the \u2018Tinder Swindler\u2019 for years,\u201d she said in 2022. \u201cWe knew he was defrauding companies and other women who reached out. We tried so hard to make him stop, fought him, and reported him to the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Simon Leviev, pictured here on a private jet, is also known as the \u201cTinder Swindler\u201d because he was accused by multiple women of lying about his identity on Tinder to scam his dates \u2013 which he has denied. <span class=\"credit\">simon__leviev__official_____\/Ins<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Leviev, seen here at the beach, faced nine criminal charges, but they were all dropped with no trial.  <span class=\"credit\">simon__leviev__official_____\/Ins<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Friday Leviev framed the settlement as a vindication.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer, Sharon Nahari, also said extradition proceedings in Germany have been closed and that there are no remaining criminal cases against him in Europe.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Netflix\u2019s 2022 documentary featured women \u2013 including Cecilie Fjellhoy, Ayleen Charlotte and Pernilla Sj\u00f6holm, pictured here \u2013 who alleged Leviev used Tinder to pose as the son of diamond billionaire Lev Leviev,  <span class=\"credit\">Joshua Wilks\/Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The Tinder Swindler, seen here, argued that public opinion had turned him into a villain before the facts were fully examined. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/Simon Leviev<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He also argued that public opinion turned him into a villain before the facts were fully examined.<br \/>\u201cThe world likes to find this villain, this bad guy that everybody likes to hate,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m not this guy. Sorry to disappoint everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Leviev, pictured posing with another private jet, acknowledged his past, including a conviction for using a fake passport as a teenager, but argued it should not define him. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/Simon Leviev<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The Tinder Swindler, pictured on board yet another private jet, also addressed changing his surname to Leviev in 2017, saying it was inspired by his admiration for Lev Leviev\u2019s success. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/Simon Leviev<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Leviev says the Netflix documentary changed his life, bringing him <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/02\/27\/tinder-swindler-simon-leviev-seeking-20k-for-nightclub-appearances\/\">worldwide fame<\/a> and new business opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/10\/celebrity-news\/tinder-swindler-simon-leviev-settles-lawsuit-with-leviev-diamond-family\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cTinder Swindler\u201d has finally escaped the legal battles stemming from his adventures in online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/134025698.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}