FROM posing as a secret agent to pretending he ran a diamond company, a new Netflix documentary claims Simon Leviev groomed women he met online – before conning them out of a staggering £7.4million .
Cecilie Fjellhøy saw the lorry on the opposite carriageway – and thought about crashing her car into it.
Suicidal and in £185,000 of debt, she was in the depths of a breakdown after splitting with her boyfriend of six months, Simon Leviev.
“I felt like my life was over and I didn’t want to go on,” she says.
Cecilie, a 33-year-old UX (user experience) designer from Norway who now lives in west London, had just discovered that the millionaire diamond dealer she’d met on Tinder and fallen in love with was actually a suspected con artist who had scammed her out of £185,000.
Her sensational story features in new Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, out next month.
Directed by Felicity Morris, who produced the acclaimed true-crime series Don’t F**k With Cats, it alleges that for at least seven years, Leviev, now 31, groomed victims he’d met on Tinder by wowing them with his flashy life of designer clothes and supercars on Instagram.
Once he had women under his spell, the documentary claims, he’d pretend that powerful enemies had frozen his bank accounts and encourage women to send him their savings or to take out credit cards and loans, conning his…
