![]() In reality, he was using Fjellhoy’s money to take a new Tinder target - Sjoholm - out on the town.īefore long, Fjellhoy had lent him $250,000. “Each time he maxes out the card, I have to take out a new loan.”Īt the time, Fjellhoy believed that she was paying to support Leviev and his team and fund expensive business lunches in Stockholm, where her love had fled for supposed safety reasons. “Every second or third day is a new request,” she says in the documentary. In the space of a month, she lent him nearly $100,000. She also had no reason to doubt that he could pay her back, since he foot the bill on all their dates and she believed that he was a billionaire. Of course we’re going to help each other, it wasn’t even a question,” she says. Norweigian woman Cecilie Fjellhoy was duped by a Tinder con man when she was a grad student in London. When he asked Fjellhoy if he could use her American Express card temporarily, for “two weeks or something,” she didn’t hesitate. ![]() Leviev then claimed he was unable to use his credit cards because his enemies could trace him that way. “He said, ‘They’re going after me, thank God for Peter – if not, I would have been dead,’” Fjellhoy says in the film. Leviev told Fjellhoy that the diamond industry was “dangerous” and he had unspecified “enemies.” To back up his claims, he showed her photos of bullets that he’d been sent in the mail and an image of his bodyguard, Peter, looking bloody and beat up after an “attack.” ![]() Courtesy of Netflix A fairy tale courtshipĪfter several lavish dates, including one on a private jet, Leviev asked Fjellhoy to be his girlfriend and started referring to her as his “future wife.” But, since he traveled constantly for his supposed work, much of their relationship was long-distance, conducted through texts and calls with occasional visits. SIMON LEVIEV/FACEBOOK Simon Leviev’s Tinder profile showed the life of a man who was apparently the heir to a diamond empire who frequently took private jets. Cecilie Fjellhoy tells the story of her ill-fated romance with a con man in “The Tinder Swindler.” Courtesy of Netflix On social media, “Simon Leviev” appeared to be a man of means. “This guy is just having a very different life than I ever would experience, I was just thinking it would be kind of cool to meet up,” Fjellhoy says. In reality, the two men weren’t related, and Lev doesn’t have a son named Simon. She even Googled him, and found that there was indeed a billionaire Russian-Israeli diamond mogul, Lev Leviev a k a “The King of Diamonds,” who she took to be her suitor’s father. Fjellhoy had no reason to doubt that he was the “Prince of Diamonds” that he portrayed himself to be. Leviev’s profile showed a man who appeared to live a jet-setting life full of stylish suits and designer clothes, sipping cocktails on exotic beaches and attending high-powered business meetings. “When I saw Simon’s pictures, he had the kind of look that I like,” Fjellhoy says in the film. 2) tells Fjellhoy’s story and those of two other Leviev victims: Swedish marketing exec Pernilla Sjoholm and Dutch fashionista Ayleen Charlotte. Netflix’s jaw-dropping new documentary “The Tinder Swindler” (out Feb. But the supposed dream man, who called himself Simon Leviev, turned out to be a nightmare, an international con man that duped her out of $250,000 and landed her in the psych ward. When Cecilie Fjellhoy, a 29-year-old Norwegian grad student living in London, swiped right on a 28-year-old supposed billionaire diamond heir on Tinder in 2018, she thought she’d found her Prince Charming. I went on vacation with my Tinder date but was confronted by his pregnant gf My Tinder match sent nudes to another woman on our first date ![]() I’m Tinder’s ‘most swiped-right’ - now I help ugly men find love with AI ‘Embarrassing’ chat no woman wants to have ![]()
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