“Go by, go by, go by… It’s not easy to find love through an app. So when Cecilie meets a handsome billionaire playboy – who is also the ideal man – she can’t. believe. But the dreams are gone. By the time he realizes that this international businessman is not who he says he is, it is already too late: he has taken everything. That is how the fairy tale transforms into a revenge story with airs of intrigue. Cecilie discovers that there are other victims, and together they stop being the victims of this story.” That is the premise of this documentary that has become all the rage on the streaming platform.
Shimon Hayut he was posing as Simon Leviev, a young son of a diamond tycoon. On their first dates, he would take them to 5-star hotels or take them out on his private plane. He made them fall in love, he shared luxuries with her. His Instagram account showed his billionaire life, nothing seemed fake.
However, one day he called them and told them that they were going to kill him. He needed to escape and was hiding in hiding, claiming that he could not use his bank accounts because they were going to geolocate him. So they gave him everything they had: 10 thousand dollars, 40 thousand dollars, 140 thousand dollars. They took out loans, lost everything they had.
Who is Shimon Hayut (or Simon Leviev)?
Shimon was born in Bnei Brak, a city east of Tel Aviv, but changed his identity to feign a false father-son relationship with diamond tycoon Lev Leviev. Hayut grew up in that ultra-Orthodox city and his father, Yohanan Hayut, is the chief rabbi of El Al.
He started cheating almost as a teenager. At age 20, he took a series of checks from a family. He then stole other checks from the family of a businessman who was in Herzliya Pituah, where he was working as a handyman. He used money to purchase Porsches and take flying lessons in Haifa. But everything does not end here, in addition to robbing several families, he scammed a colleague to have his own clothing store.
Later he traveled to Finland, where apps like Tinder were his new target, since he met women and at the same time scammed them with promises that were later not kept. Faced with this situation, he was arrested in 2015 and spent two years in prison. He was extradited to Israel, but fled again. And then he met the first protagonist of the documentary, the Norwegian Cecilie Fjellhoy.
Source: Ambito
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