Lev leviev, Israeli businessman

Los Angeles, Feb 5 'The Tinder Swindler', a documentary about a notorious conman who used the dating app to fraud multiple women, could be getting a movie.According to Variety, Netflix is in talks with producers about dramatising the wild documentary that's likely to make any Tinder user's blood run cold.Sources indicate that the conversation is in early stages, and that the tone of a potential film is still being worked out.'The Tinder Swindler' debuted on the streaming service only on Wednesday, and it's already cracking the platform's Top 10 lists in the US and UK.Produced by 'Three Identical Strangers' and 'Don't F*** With Cats' makers Raw TV, alongside AGC Studios and Gaspin Media, the 114-minute doc tells the story of Israeli fraudster Shimon Hayut, who conned Scandinavian women into parting with hundreds of thousands of dollars by pretending on dating app Tinder to be Simon Leviev, the son of Israeli diamond tycoon Lev Leviev.The documentary, directed by Felicity Morris, interviews the women who were conned by Hayut as they uncover his true identity with the help of journalists from Norwegian newspaper VG, and bring him to justice.Hayut, who was imprisoned in Israel in December 2019 on a 15-month jail sentence, conned his victims by romancing them with expensive dates and forming long-distance relationships with them.He then asked them to take out lines of credit for him under their names in order to pay for what he claimed to be were extensive security needs.Hayut, a free man, currently resides in Israel. His public Instagram page had more than 200,000 followers by press time, and an Instagram story published on Friday indicates that he's preparing to tell his version of the story.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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Entertainment :Netflix in talks to make 'Tinder Swindler' documentary into movie

Streaming giant Netflix is in early talks to make a movie on 'Tinder Swindler', an eye-opening documentary about a notorious con man who used the dating app to defraud multiple women. ...

Entertainment :Netflix in talks to make 'Tinder Swindler' documentary into a movie

Los Angeles, Feb 5 'The Tinder Swindler', a documentary about a notorious conman who used the dating app ... ...