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[ethereal music playing]

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[woman] I think
everyone would love to just meet someone

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in a bar or in a grocery store.

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But nowadays, the best way
you can meet someone is on a dating app.

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[chimes]

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You can find
a bit of everything on Tinder.

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[up-tempo music playing]

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There are people looking for
long-term relationships or marriage.

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People who just want to hook up.

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Anything.

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You can pick guys from all over the world.

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It's a lot of men.

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We are all looking for
that diamond in the rough.

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[chimes]

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And of course, you Google everyone that
you're supposed to go on a date with.

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Well, this is gonna be fun.
Let's swipe right on that.

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[uplifting music playing]

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Private jets, cool cars,
amazing parties all over the world.

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What happened to me felt like a movie.

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But in the movies,
there's always bad guys.

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[dramatic music playing]

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I get these threatening messages.

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[incoming message tone]

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These enemies were watching me, my family.

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[crying] It's just been fucking hell.

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[woman 2] I'm shit scared.

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Are they coming now? Did we lock the door?

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[car engine revving]

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I don't think I ever will be
the same again.

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[car engine revving]

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[woman] One little swipe
can change your life forever.

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[app chimes]

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[sighs]

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I think the… I think life is about love,

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'cause the most happiest times I've had
is when I've been in love.

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[romantic music playing]

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That's what's most amazing about love,
no matter how many heartbreaks you've had,

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you still go after it.

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-I love dating.
-[phone chimes]

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The moment I get nervous, then I know
that there's something special here.

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And I love being nervous.
That's the thing. [chuckles]

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I'm after that all-consuming, the kind of…

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What you've grown up with.

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The first memories
that I have about love is Disney.

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I had memorized the entire
Beauty and the Beast cassette.

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I knew all the songs.

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I just love Belle.

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She is this small-town girl like me,
hoping for something bigger.

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She meets this person,
and then she saves him in a sense,

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or he saves her as well. Like,
to go into a different life together.

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It just sticks with you, like, the feeling
of a prince coming to save you.

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And I think that even though you know
it's not real, it's still with you a bit.

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I think everyone has
that little bit of hope deep down inside

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it will be as magical
as they were portraying it to be.

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[chimes]

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But finding Prince Charming in real life…

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It's a lot of work.

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[uplifting music playing]

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I've been on Tinder for seven years.

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I'm from Norway, but live in London.
So I've been on Tinder in two countries.

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[interviewer] How many matches
have you had?

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[sputters]

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Do you really want to see?

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-[interviewer] Can we see?
-Yeah.

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[interviewer] 1,024 matches.

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Yeah, I'm a bit of a Tinder expert.
You can say that. [laughs]

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The most important thing that you can
have is a picture of your face,

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then you have a picture with friends.

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It's important to show
that you're social as well.

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Feel my profile showing
I'm not in the hook-up culture.

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Like, I'm after long-term love.

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For me to swipe right on a guy,

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it needs to be
that we have some similar interests

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in the pictures I'm looking at.

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Maybe like a nice dinner somewhere,

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or that you like the beach,
'cause I love a beach.

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Oh my God. Um, animals.

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A handsome man with a cat?
Like, it can't go wrong.

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[chimes]

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And you want a guy that has ambition.

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It's like Marilyn Monroe in the movie
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

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And then she has this quote
where she says…

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Don't you know that a man being rich
is like a girl being pretty?

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You might not marry a girl
just because she's pretty,

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but my goodness, doesn't it help?

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It is a very true quote.
Like, you want the full package.

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But it's not easy to find
what you're looking for.

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It's a lot of swiping.
Back and forth, back and forth.

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[thrilling music playing]

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When I saw Simon's pictures,
he had the kind of look that I like.

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He was dressed very stylish. I love a guy
in a suit, and he had several of those.

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And he had his link to his Instagram.

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You always check the Insta.

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He had so many pictures
and so many followers.

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Business meetings, parties, beaches.

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This guy is just having a very different
life than I ever will experience.

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And I was just thinking that it would be
kind of cool just to meet up.

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I decide to swipe right.

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[chimes]

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[chimes]

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And then he just responds fairly quickly.

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"I'm leaving London tomorrow.
Do you want to meet up?"

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When we text on WhatsApp,
he asked me to meet him

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at the hotel that he was staying at,
the Four Seasons…

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[incoming message tone]

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…and he just sent the Google Maps link,
so I could know where I was gonna go.

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This was just going to be, like,
an hour-long coffee,

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'cause I could just sense
that this guy was a busy guy.

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[uplifting music playing]

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When I walk into this really fancy hotel,
I feel out of place.

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I think I'm a bit early.
So I just decide to sit down and wait.

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You know, you're nervous.

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When the elevator door finally pings…

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[elevator dings]

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I was like, "Shit."

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[uplifting music playing]

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He looks exactly like his pictures.

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He has this magnetism.

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There's something about this guy
that is special.

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One of the first topics
we talked about was his job.

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He's the CEO of LLD Diamonds.

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He got the job from his dad.

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When he mentioned that his dad
was the king of diamonds,

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so that meant that he was
the prince of diamonds,

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I realized, like,
"My God, what kind of family is this?"

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Very quickly, he'd become very personal.
And that's what I really liked about it.

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He has a baby daughter
that turns two in a couple of weeks.

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She's there now to visit him in London,

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but he's not together with the mom
anymore.

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He's rarely in one place
for a very long period of time,

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and he just missed having someone,
you know.

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When we were nearing the end of the date,

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he said, "I really want
to get to know you better."

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They were traveling to Bulgaria
for a business trip,

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and then he was asking me
if I wanted to join them.

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We're traveling by private jet.

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"Shit. Ooh, this is something new
that I've never done before."

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I felt that I would be stupid
if I said no.

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So I was kind of, like,
super excited on the inside,

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but on the outside, I kept it very cool,
because I was just thinking,

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"Okay, you like this guy,
you just need to keep your cool now."

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[thrilling music playing]

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Simon asked one of his drivers
to take me back home,

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so I could pack some stuff,
get my passport,

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then they will drive me back.

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Suddenly, there's this Rolls-Royce
waiting for me.

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So I was kind of like,
"My God. This is insane."

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It felt like being in a movie.

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[announcer] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents

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an exciting, extravagant,
romantic adventure.

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The Yellow Rolls-Royce.

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I can be quick when I pack.

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[thrilling music continues]

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I have a messenger group
with my girlfriends.

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My friends are freaking out.

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"Who is this guy? How do you know him?
You can be abducted."

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I was like, "Oh, I didn't even think
about that. I'm on a date, you know."

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[thrilling music ends]

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[indistinct chatter]

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At the airport, there is the entire team
waiting for us.

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A really tall guy,
which I presume is the bodyguard.

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There's a couple of drivers,
and you have his little daughter.

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I see this woman
that's with Simon's daughter.

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Simon tells me that
that's the baby's mother

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and that they're going to be
on the plane with us.

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His ex is joining us
on our first date together,

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and I'm kind of like,
"Well, this can be interesting."

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[exciting music playing]

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[Simon] Morning. How are you?
Ah, good. Morning.

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[interviewer] Did you take videos
on the plane? Show me?

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[laughs] Yes. It's like the worst person.

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That's what one of my friends would say.

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"Can you stop being so awkward?"
But I was very excited about it, you know.

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It was champagne with caviar.
I've never eaten caviar before.

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And then it was sushi. And it was like
it was a totally different world.

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If I like someone, I'll give them
a little kiss on the cheek.

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It was quick,
but it just felt very natural.

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When we landed, me and the baby's mother
and the baby, we went into a car.

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Of course, I take the opportunity
to ask some questions.

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She tells me
what a wonderful father he is,

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that he's still supporting them
even though they're not together anymore,

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which was really, really nice to hear.

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[romantic music playing]

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When we go to the hotel, we check in,

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and when we're walking
into the elevator together,

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exactly when the door closes,

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he takes me around the waist
and he just looks at me

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and he draws me in
and just gives me this kiss,

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and I was like, "Oh, shit," you know,
the kind of butterflies…

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It was passionate,
and was just the perfect first kiss

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that you could have, you know.

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[romantic music continues]

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[indistinct chatter on TV]

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-[interviewer] You sleep together?
-We sleep together.

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And then, later on, I could see
that he has some marks on his back.

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I was just wondering, like, what is this?
Where, like, I was touching it.

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And then he was kind of like, "Oh, well…"

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He didn't exactly know how to say it,
but it was, like,

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he had been in jail in South Africa.
And I was like, "What?"

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Just trust me once more.

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Why should I?

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He had a deal going on there, and they had

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turned their backs against him
and betrayed him.

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So he had gone in prison
on false pretenses.

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He was innocent.

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He had been manhandled in prison
because he was Jewish.

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Here was this guy I thought
had everything going for him

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sitting on the bed with me,
being really vulnerable.

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Just give me the stamps.

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Oh. Oh, I love you, Adam, Alex, Peter…

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[Cecilie] Here's this kind of person
that you want to save,

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especially 'cause he has
so much responsibility on his back.

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Everyone is relying on him.

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Even though things had gone
very quickly with us,

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but when I sit there and I feel
an emotional connection with someone

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and they're opening up,
that's just how I am as a person.

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[phone ringing]

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He starts getting a lot of calls,
and, in the end, he just says,

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"We're so busy. I think it's best
if you just go back home."

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[continues ringing]

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I was a bit disappointed, actually.
I was kind of like…

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I wanted to spend more time with him.

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[indistinct announcement on PA]

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When I came back to London, I thought
the conversation would die out.

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I didn't expect anything.

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[rain pattering]

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I felt like I knew him more,
but I didn't really "know him" know him.

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Like, how special was I? I felt special,
but, like, when he leaves, you never know.

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I was hoping. I was really hoping

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that he was gonna come back.

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[pensive music playing]

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[uplifting music playing]

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But then kept going with, like,
good morning messages to each other

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and good night messages, and FaceTime.

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He was, like, tagging me
where he was going.

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When I was at work, you could hear
the pinging in your phone,

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and it was, like, "I hope that it's him."

240
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He just suddenly asked me,
"So what's your address?"

241
00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,920
Never, ever received a bouquet like that.

242
00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,400
[keypad tones]

243
00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,960
[Simon] Miss you. Wanna spend some time
together… Kiss you, hug you.

244
00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,040
Feel like we have something special,
and he says so to me.

245
00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,000
So I'm kind of like,
"Oh, shit. Is this it?"

246
00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:07,400
[chimes]

247
00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:15,560
Ah, it was so nice seeing him again.

248
00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,120
I can't even describe to someone.
Like, when you really want to see someone.

249
00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:24,680
Just feeling that you're his girl
is like the best feeling.

250
00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:38,880
But then it was difficult to meet up with
him. He was traveling a lot for business.

251
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I was going home to Oslo
and I was thinking,

252
00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,880
"Well, you can come to Oslo!"

253
00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,360
And that was one of the things he said,

254
00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,920
"But, babe, I don't have anything to do
in Oslo. There's no business,"

255
00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,000
and I was missing him so much, I was like,
"I'm never gonna be able to see you."

256
00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:04,840
[upbeat music playing]

257
00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:08,280
You're kidding me.

258
00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:12,000
You're such a busy guy,
and you decide to take a private jet

259
00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,800
and land at like 3:00 a.m.
to come and see me.

260
00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:21,000
So I go to his hotel. I bought him,
like, a Valentine's present.

261
00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,520
It was a book about
having a relationship with a Norwegian.

262
00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,000
And then I had made,
like, ten things about him

263
00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:30,360
that makes him wonderful,
which I'd written myself.

264
00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:34,280
And then he just asked me,

265
00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:37,280
"I am serious about you.
Do you want to be my girlfriend?"

266
00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:41,800
And I'm kind of like, "Oh, shit."
The kind of words that you wanted to hear.

267
00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,000
Yeah. And then we were together.

268
00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,200
That's when he said there was something
he wants to tell me

269
00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:56,520
if we're gonna be together.

270
00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,520
It was better to be open and honest
about how his life was

271
00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:01,000
than to keep it hidden.

272
00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:04,080
[tense music playing]

273
00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:08,560
He was just talking about
this big deal that he needed to get done,

274
00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,800
and the deal was worth $70 million,

275
00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,480
but the diamond industry
is a dangerous business.

276
00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,160
He had these threats
surrounding his security.

277
00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:25,720
He had a security team in Israel.
Peter was like the head of it.

278
00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,400
Threats had gotten worse.

279
00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:35,440
He showed me pictures of, like,
they had gotten bullets in the mail.

280
00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:38,320
Funeral flowers had been sent.

281
00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,560
He had CCTV of an apartment in Tel Aviv.

282
00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,080
He had a break-in there.

283
00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,480
The security team told him
that he wasn't safe in London anymore,

284
00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:52,960
and for time being he needed to stay away.

285
00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,520
[tense music continues]

286
00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,800
Of course, I get super scared for him.

287
00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,640
I could just see
that it was straining on him.

288
00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,400
He just wanted my understanding
that things were gonna be fine,

289
00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,000
and we were going to be together.

290
00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,400
And I was like,
"Okay. I'll be here for you."

291
00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:18,080
[faint traffic]

292
00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:29,320
When I got back home, one of my friends
Googled the Leviev family.

293
00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,280
She says this is
one of the most powerful families.

294
00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,520
They've become big for a reason.

295
00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:49,680
Need to be realistic
about what he's involved in.

296
00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:57,920
I hadn't seen him in a while.
And of course it made you a bit scared.

297
00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,160
So I check his Tinder to see where he is.

298
00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:05,440
I see that he's in a different country.

299
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,440
And I also see
a couple of his pictures had changed.

300
00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,600
My heart just sank, you know,
'cause that means that he's been active.

301
00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:17,040
So what's going on?

302
00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:19,120
[tense music playing]

303
00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:26,760
[Simon] I'm not using Tinder anymore.
I deleted the app. I deleted the account.

304
00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:30,600
He tells me that we're a team
and we're together

305
00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,840
and that I have nothing to worry about.

306
00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:34,400
There's no one else. Only me.

307
00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:39,560
[Simon] I care about you. I miss you.
And everything will be all right, baby.

308
00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,600
[up-tempo music playing]

309
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,320
I was sitting by my phone,
swiping, swiping.

310
00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,000
[interviewer] What kind of guy
were you hoping for?

311
00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:59,000
An ideal guy. A smart one. And funny.
And very impulsive.

312
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,600
I'm a very independent woman.
I always have been.

313
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:07,840
I've done that since the age of 16,

314
00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,640
so I don't need a man to take care of me,

315
00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,920
but I would appreciate
to have a man to share my life.

316
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,560
My Tinder profile was a mix.

317
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:29,520
It had some pictures
with me dressed for work, traveling,

318
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,840
because I still wanted
to attract this person

319
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,720
that was living the same life as I did.

320
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:44,120
So I was swiping.
And then this guy comes up.

321
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,840
[thrilling music playing]

322
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,040
This is someone who is well-traveled.

323
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,400
And still works very hard.

324
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:57,360
So I thought,
"Oh, great. Let's swipe right on that."

325
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:01,280
[chimes]

326
00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:02,640
I got a match.

327
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:10,240
He was here in Stockholm for business,
but it said he was living in Amsterdam.

328
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,240
He texts me and asks me
if I want to come visit.

329
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:16,360
[chimes]

330
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,200
[Simon] There is a flight
tomorrow at nine o'clock in the morning

331
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:21,760
from Stockholm to Amsterdam.

332
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,560
So tell me if it's all right for you.

333
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:28,200
He asked about my passport details,
booked my flight ticket,

334
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,000
which I thought was a nice gesture.

335
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:37,040
I get this confirmation
from Simon Leviev at LLD Diamonds.

336
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,280
Of course, I started to Google,

337
00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:48,360
because you always Google everyone
you're supposed to go on a date with.

338
00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:53,440
His father is this diamond tycoon,

339
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,280
and I'm just thinking,
"Oh my God, another diamond guy."

340
00:22:57,360 --> 00:22:58,880
[laughs]

341
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:00,920
-Um…
-[interviewer] Another diamond guy?

342
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:01,880
Yeah.

343
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,880
I used to date a guy
that was in the diamond industry.

344
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:07,760
Okay, maybe second time around.

345
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,840
[uplifting music playing]

346
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:21,320
I take a car to his house, which is
in this lovely, lovely neighborhood.

347
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,040
He comes and opens up the door.

348
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,760
He dresses very elegantly.

349
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:31,120
"A little bit short for my taste,"
was the first thing I was thinking,

350
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,360
but he's really easy to talk to.

351
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,960
It's quite rare that you meet someone
and you have this instant connection.

352
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,560
After we spent an hour together,

353
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:47,240
we felt like we had known each other
for ten years or something.

354
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,800
We go for lunch,
the entire staff welcomes us.

355
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:59,880
They bring a special order of caviar
that the restaurant uses just for Simon.

356
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,760
I don't think the food
ever stopped coming in.

357
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,160
He really asked a lot of questions,
really wanted to listen,

358
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:10,800
which I really appreciated.

359
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,600
'Cause it's quite rare
to have men listen sometimes.

360
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:21,040
Afterwards, we had a nice, long walk
around Amsterdam. I see a diamond museum.

361
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:27,040
I love museums,
and if you should go to a diamond museum,

362
00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:29,200
you should go
with someone in the business.

363
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,200
He knows all about the mines,

364
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,600
how to cut them,
where you get the best diamonds.

365
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:37,360
He knows everything.

366
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,200
After that,
he makes this little bit of a move on me.

367
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,160
But it just doesn't feel right.

368
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,720
He's like, "No, maybe no.
Just… Better just stay friends."

369
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,560
"Yeah, maybe you're right." [laughs]

370
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,880
Even though there wasn't
a romantic energy between us,

371
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:00,560
I really enjoyed myself.

372
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,640
[keypad tones]

373
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:10,680
I actually missed him after just a day
or two, because we did have a lot of fun.

374
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,080
[incoming message alert]

375
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,040
[phone ringing]

376
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,400
We were talking and calling and texting.

377
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,000
When he's out to dinner,

378
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,520
he sends me a picture,
and we used voice notes.

379
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,160
[Simon] Beautiful looking.
Beautiful, Pernilla.

380
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:34,520
Happy to see you tomorrow.

381
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,360
You can be two different types
of personalities sometimes.

382
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,640
So either you can be a battery charger
or a battery drainer.

383
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,520
[Simon] Work hard, play hard.

384
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,640
And he was definitely my battery charger.

385
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,120
[Simon] Amazing. Amazing. Beautiful dress.

386
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:56,400
Once, I remember, like, he flew over
just to have a coffee with me one day

387
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,320
because I was having a bad day.

388
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,680
[Simon] Pernilla, about 10 o'clock
we're going for a drink.

389
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,480
Then, 12:30, we're going to the club.

390
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,280
[Pernilla] Can't wait to see you later!

391
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:10,000
I gave him a little bit of a prince emoji
next to his name,

392
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,000
because that's how he's behaving
sometimes.

393
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:15,880
And I always make a joke about this.

394
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,120
Really felt like we had
a special connection.

395
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,760
[pensive music playing]

396
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:35,840
[Simon] I can't wait to see you.

397
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,560
I love you with all my heart.
I miss you so much.

398
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,600
[Cecilie] Simon was away a lot
on business.

399
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,040
We'd talk and text every single day.

400
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,200
Your girl is finally done with yoga
for the night.

401
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:52,520
And she's at home
making some delicious salmon.

402
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:54,680
I felt special.

403
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,200
It was just amazing.

404
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,360
And then, he asked me.

405
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,520
[thrilling music playing]

406
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,280
[keypad tones]

407
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,920
It's just the best feeling, you know,
when you have someone

408
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,440
and both are on the same wavelength.

409
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,000
Time for apartment number two.

410
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,520
Living room where we can
watch movies and stuff.

411
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,880
I was dreaming of how it would be
for the two of us to live together.

412
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,280
And then you have this awesome kitchen.

413
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,760
And here is the bedroom.

414
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,720
Simon tells me that
the budget is $15,000 per month.

415
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,600
Third apartment.

416
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,600
So I'm going all the rounds
in these amazing apartments.

417
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,760
And sometimes I even have
Simon with me on FaceTime.

418
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,240
It was just a really nice way
to connect with him,

419
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,040
even though he wasn't there,
to do it together.

420
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,680
The view is out to the Piazza
at Covent Garden.

421
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,480
[thrilling music continues]

422
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,120
Cecilie, my love, I love you, I miss you.
I can't wait to see you.

423
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,480
[thrilling music ends]

424
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,360
[chimes]

425
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:44,240
[phone vibrating]

426
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:51,240
In the middle of the night, I get
a picture of Peter, Simon's bodyguard.

427
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,760
Simon is writing "Peter hurt,"
and I'm like, "What the fuck?"

428
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,160
Well, this is the night.

429
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,800
[woman] Can you write your first name?
Or I can write it, of course.

430
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:15,960
We're in an ambulance.

431
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:17,080
[woman] Can you write that?

432
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,920
He just says that, "They were
going after me. Thank God for Peter."

433
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,400
"If not, I would be dead."

434
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,160
[Simon] It's okay, love. It's okay.

435
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,400
I told you, we're in a war.
We need to be strong.

436
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,640
I didn't know what to do.
And he just says, "We're safe now."

437
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,120
"We're being taken care of.
You just need to sleep."

438
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,280
The next morning,
Simon sends me a voice note.

439
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,680
[Simon] Because of the situation,
with the security and everything,

440
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,160
they told me I'm not allowed
to use my credit card.

441
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:51,720
He can't use his cards anymore because
the security team has said his enemies

442
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,480
are tracing his spending and where he is
based on his credit card use.

443
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,560
[Simon] I wanted to ask you a favor.

444
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,800
If you have
an American Express credit card,

445
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:03,720
I can link it to my account.

446
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,480
He was just wondering
if he could use my cards for some time.

447
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,720
It would just help him a lot.

448
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,880
[Simon] It's just temporary,
like, for, uh,

449
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,320
two weeks or something.

450
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,200
[Cecilie] I'm his girlfriend.

451
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:22,200
Of course he would ask me.
Like, you trust me and I trust you,

452
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,880
so of course we're gonna help each other.
It wasn't even a question.

453
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:39,920
The Platinum Amex is in my name, and he
starts using it as he said he would,

454
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,440
but he maxes out quite quickly.

455
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,720
So he makes payment directly to Amex,
and I get the receipt from him,

456
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,280
and he says that the money is on the way,
but in the meantime,

457
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:55,640
he wants me to come to Amsterdam
and bring some cash to him. $25,000.

458
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,280
How on Earth am I going to
get that amount of cash?

459
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:19,560
I took out a loan,
which I then took out in cash.

460
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,720
I was super scared
having that amount of cash in my bag.

461
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,320
[tense music playing]

462
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,320
Especially when we went through security.

463
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:32,080
I was super stressed.

464
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:41,000
How was I gonna explain the money
if I got any questions about it?

465
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,240
The moment I'm with him, I feel safe.
My biggest issue was being apart from him.

466
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,040
He was really grateful.

467
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,520
He told me that everything I was doing
is keeping him safe.

468
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:02,360
[chimes]

469
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,600
But within hours, the security team
said there was a problem.

470
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,840
He deletes his Instagram
because of security measures,

471
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,440
and then he asked me
to make my account private.

472
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,080
Take it all away.

473
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,080
He says that they can come
and get me through him.

474
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,360
Of course, I get paranoid.
What the fuck is going on?

475
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,360
[ringing]

476
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,240
Later on, Simon gets a call.

477
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,160
He puts Peter on the speakerphone,
and he says,

478
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:39,160
"Simon, there's been a security breach.
They know where you are."

479
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,840
"The plane is ready to leave.
I can't tell you where you're going."

480
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,920
Peter is asking if he can please
turn off the lights in the apartment.

481
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,320
I'm shit scared. Are they coming now?
Did we lock the door?

482
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:58,600
[indistinct conversation on phone]

483
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,240
[voice breaking] Just seeing someone
that you care so much for in danger,

484
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,320
and, like, you can see that
he was not doing well mentally.

485
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,480
I could see
that he was struggling so much.

486
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,040
And in the end,
he just told me that he had to go.

487
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:22,320
When he lands, he sends me the geotag.
He's landed in Stockholm.

488
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,160
He is here. Very spontaneous.

489
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:36,560
So I ask him…

490
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,160
[electronic music playing]

491
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,160
The club is basically an ocean with women,

492
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,880
or as I call them, champagne girls.

493
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,440
They are basically like flies.

494
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,160
Like, you put out a rotten banana,
and they just attack,

495
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,720
but these girls do the same thing
when they see a bottle of champagne.

496
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,600
And Simon is of course
paying for this entire circus.

497
00:34:08,720 --> 00:34:13,120
He's paying with cash and just making sure
that everyone is having a good time.

498
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,720
All of them are quite drunk,
especially Simon's bodyguard, Peter.

499
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,880
This is not an environment
that I want to be in.

500
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:27,320
So I just stay for 10, 15 minutes
and then just say,

501
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,920
"Let's talk tomorrow
and enjoy your night and have fun."

502
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,000
[electronic music continues]

503
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,840
The morning after, I text him
and ask how the hangover is

504
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,800
and maybe if he needs a cup of coffee,
we should go for one,

505
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,760
and then he texts me back.

506
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:53,400
He's already in Spain.

507
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,040
[seagulls calling]

508
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,280
[incoming message tone]

509
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,160
The Amex card is in my name.

510
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:15,240
[line ringing]

511
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,120
[automated voice]
Welcome to American Express.

512
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:21,400
So I had to pretend that I was the one
traveling around, you know.

513
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,680
I understand your card isn't working.

514
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,000
I'll connect you with someone
who can assist. Say or enter…

515
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,760
I needed to know exactly the amount that
he was spending, which hotel he was in,

516
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,720
so they would believe
that I was the one using the card.

517
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,120
[Simon] We need to go. We need to travel.

518
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,680
It's making things
very complicated, honey.

519
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,960
[ringing]

520
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,320
Couple of hours later he would call again,
and it's blocked again.

521
00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:50,360
[automated voice]
Welcome to American Express.

522
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:51,880
[Cecilie] Then I need to call Amex,

523
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,560
and Simon had already told me
that this would happen,

524
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,800
that it would be something
that I would need to do at the start

525
00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,280
to call them and fix this.

526
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,480
The other problem
was that the credit limit wasn't enough.

527
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:05,480
[ringing]

528
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:09,680
We had to get it up so he could spend it,
'cause he had an entire team, you know.

529
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:13,240
So I was like,
"Okay, but how are you going to do that?"

530
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:14,880
He said, "Well, I can employ you."

531
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,640
[somber music playing]

532
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:23,520
He then calls someone in LLD Diamonds
and asks for my passport details,

533
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,520
so I can be put
into the employment registry.

534
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,760
I just tried to say,
"Well, I am not really working there."

535
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:38,120
He's like, "Well, you are. I'm the CEO.
If they call, you are employed."

536
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:44,200
[Simon] I would never ask you for anything
if it was not serious shit.

537
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:45,880
All these security issues,

538
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,520
you've always been there for me,
so thank you, my love.

539
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,760
We were in a crisis at this point.
Like, what else are we gonna do?

540
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,440
So then I got employed. I got pay slips.

541
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,120
-[interviewer] How much?
-Earning so much.

542
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:04,360
I think it was, like, $94,000 per month.

543
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,280
I send this over
to prove that I earn much more.

544
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,840
That makes them
raise the credit limit like this.

545
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,880
Of course, you are a bit worried,

546
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,960
but he sends me
a receipt from Credit Suisse

547
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,200
where he's making a transfer
directly to me.

548
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,160
It's for $250,000.

549
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:28,520
It's more than enough to pay
for the amount that he was spending.

550
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:37,880
[classical music playing]

551
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,960
[Pernilla] Mykonos is like
a perfect playground.

552
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:52,240
You will see a lot of yachts,
a lot of celebrities, a lot of models.

553
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,280
You pack all your bikinis, definitely,
for the daytime parties as well.

554
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:58,520
[phone ringing]

555
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,200
I am on the phone with Simon,

556
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,480
and he tells me
he has just met his new girlfriend.

557
00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:06,600
Polina.

558
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:08,920
[classical music continues]

559
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:11,880
[choral music playing]

560
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,920
I tell him they should meet us in Mykonos,
and he does.

561
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000
[choral music continues playing]

562
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,640
[Cecilie] I was going to Oslo.
To see my friends, see my family.

563
00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:27,840
And I really wanted to introduce him.

564
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,560
I'm just waiting for him.
He said he was gonna come the next day.

565
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,800
[Pernilla] I meet Polina
for the first time.

566
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:43,480
She's this typical, like, Russian model.
Quite young. But she's very down to earth.

567
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:44,920
And I really liked her.

568
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:49,680
He seems very smitten over her.
They seemed like a good match.

569
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,000
[phone ringing]

570
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,440
[Simon] Look, I cannot come right now.
I cannot.

571
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,320
[Cecilie] The security team had told him,
"You need to stay away."

572
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,160
I felt deeply disappointed.

573
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,840
But what's most important
is actually to keep him safe.

574
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,720
[Pernilla] Of course
he had booked the grand suite,

575
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,360
with own private pool.

576
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:19,480
It's about $5,000 a night, this room.
It's absolutely gorgeous.

577
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:22,400
[Simon] I know
you hate to ring up the bank,

578
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,480
but sometimes it is necessary.

579
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,120
I need to book some tickets
for the rest of the team.

580
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,760
[Cecilie] Suddenly need to get
so much money for this entire team

581
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,600
that is traveling business class,
that is having expensive dinners.

582
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:41,440
Like, they're going out with clients,
and the spend is to another level

583
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,000
that you have never, ever seen before.

584
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,800
[Simon] This is what I do all the time.
Just meetings and more meetings.

585
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,080
[choral music playing]

586
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:55,800
$20,000 is a lot of money,
and that was spent in three days.

587
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,760
[waves lapping, seagulls calling]

588
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,880
Simon asks, "Where should we go now?"

589
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,880
[choral music playing]

590
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:13,200
We decide to go to Bonbonniere,
also known as the billionaire's club.

591
00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:17,280
You don't get in here
without paying for a table,

592
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,520
which is normally $2,000.

593
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,400
For people here, this is peanuts for them.
This is coffee money.

594
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,200
[Cecilie] He maxes out
the credit card again.

595
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,560
So he told me to get more loans.

596
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,120
[Simon] Don't worry,
I will finish this deal.

597
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:38,600
Champagne's on me.

598
00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:42,040
[Pernilla] Simon orders in
a couple of bottles of champagne.

599
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,800
Before we even have time
to try and chip in,

600
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:46,840
he has already paid for the bill.

601
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:48,920
Simon is very generous.

602
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,000
[choral music continues]

603
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,600
I take out a loan for $40,000.

604
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,280
[Pernilla] Simon and Polina
were continuing their little summer tour.

605
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,840
[Simon] I tried to do,
like, another transaction,

606
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,720
and it didn't go through.

607
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,840
Every second or third day
is a new request.

608
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:19,440
France, and then they were going Vienna.
They were going Switzerland.

609
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,920
[Simon] Almost there.
I'm 97% done with the deals.

610
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,440
Each time he maxes out the card,
I have to take out a new loan.

611
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:34,760
$50,000 Instabank. $12,500 DNB.
$10,000 for a credit card.

612
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,640
[Pernilla] "Let's meet up in Rome.
We need to go and see the Coliseum."

613
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:42,520
[Simon] Hello.

614
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:45,000
[high-pitched] Hello.

615
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,640
[Pernilla] This amazing
Rolls-Royce Phantom

616
00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:51,400
is taking us around all the famous sites,

617
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,920
like the Spanish Stairs, the Coliseum,

618
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,600
the Trevi Fountain to throw a few pennies.

619
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,400
I definitely need some more luck in my
life. Let's see if this can sort it out.

620
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,200
[Simon, gruffly] Check what is going on
with the card.

621
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:05,480
Now. It's important.

622
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:09,680
Money he had promised me
still hasn't come into my account.

623
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,880
[Simon] I've already done it
so it doesn't matter right now.

624
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,880
We need a solution right now
for the current situation.

625
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,520
It's kind of like a pressure
that I have never experienced before

626
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,560
to have someone's life
depending on what you're doing.

627
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,360
[Simon] You know,
I'm facing security threats

628
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,400
with people trying to kill me.

629
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:36,040
If he couldn't use the card, if something
went wrong, he could be in danger.

630
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,760
And if I didn't help him,
what might happen?

631
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:45,560
Morning.

632
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,880
The things you're doing for me,
the things we're going through together,

633
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:50,840
it's for life.

634
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,640
This is what is making me see
that you are the one.

635
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,480
$20,000, Monobank. $15,000, Nordea.

636
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,640
[Pernilla] We all give each other
a big hug

637
00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:02,080
and say that we should meet again soon,

638
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:05,160
after just like an amazing summer, really.

639
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,080
[choral music ends]

640
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:11,680
[interviewer] How much had you taken?

641
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,680
$250,000. That's not what I signed up for.

642
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,320
-[interviewer] A lot.
-It is a lot of money.

643
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:26,880
[sniffles]

644
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,960
[incoming message tone]

645
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,800
[Simon] I know
you have done, uh, too much,

646
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:36,520
for me, for us, for everything.

647
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,920
I know you're tired
and you want to be together,

648
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,680
which, of course, I do want as well.

649
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,720
I understand.
Everything will be all right.

650
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:50,040
I was getting so tired and annoyed
and I just needed some kind of money.

651
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:54,640
That's when he says, "You can come
to Amsterdam and I can give you a check."

652
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,480
[somber classical music playing]

653
00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:09,240
He seemed colder.
Wasn't the same kind of affection.

654
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:15,440
There was almost a cloud across his eyes
that I couldn't pierce through.

655
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,680
When we get into the apartment,
the check is already there.

656
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,520
The check is worth much more
than the debt I have now.

657
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:34,040
We're trying to be together.
But I can just feel a distance.

658
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:37,360
It wasn't a good night.

659
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,120
[tense music playing]

660
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,960
The first thing I do when I come back
from Amsterdam is cash this check.

661
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,600
I really needed that check to go through.

662
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,480
I had eight, nine creditors, you know.

663
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:06,200
That's a lot of emails
coming down on you at the same time.

664
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,120
I check my bank account every single day.

665
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:30,280
When four days have passed,
I just know that I need to call the bank.

666
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,680
[line ringing]

667
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,200
[woman] How can I help you today?

668
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:37,680
She says, "We won't cash it."

669
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,680
[woman continues indistinctly]

670
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:41,480
And she couldn't tell me why.

671
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:45,320
And that's when I was just standing
on the phone, like,

672
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,480
feeling that I had hard to breathe.

673
00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:53,240
[line ringing]

674
00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,360
[Simon] Cecilie, I don't understand.
We have…

675
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,000
I was asking about the check,
like, "It didn't work."

676
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,000
He says, "Well, fuck it.
I gave you the money, so…"

677
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:06,920
"I did my deal."

678
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,080
[Simon, irately] I already done it.

679
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,400
[Cecilie] Never hear him so cold
in my life.

680
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,520
It was like that person on the phone
was no longer my boyfriend.

681
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:18,680
Was no longer my boyfriend.

682
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:24,040
I… It was just a, uh… just a darkness.

683
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:26,560
[somber music playing]

684
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:36,880
I know I was in deep shit.

685
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,440
Like, what do you do
when you have nine creditors on you?

686
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:48,440
I called the Amex helpline.

687
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:49,520
[line ringing]

688
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,520
They can hear how stressed I am.

689
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:54,880
They just said,
"Stay put. We will come to you."

690
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:56,080
[doorbell ringing]

691
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,840
I was shit scared
they were gonna come and handcuff me

692
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:02,920
and take me away.

693
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:05,600
The documents that I sent over.

694
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,480
The lies I told on the phone.

695
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:12,400
I gave him my card.

696
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:19,320
I tell them everything.

697
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,440
They said, "Do you have a picture of him?"

698
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,840
That moment when they look at each other
and they say that's the guy.

699
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:39,680
Fuck. Shit. You know?

700
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:45,320
"What kind of name did he use?"
And then I said Simon Leviev.

701
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:49,680
And they said, "Well, that's
one of many names that he's been using."

702
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:51,560
"Many names"?

703
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,520
Who is this guy
I've been sharing the same bed with?

704
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,000
"He's a professional.
He does this for a living."

705
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:02,800
Everything's a lie.

706
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:08,040
He's not a prince of diamonds.
He's not the son of a billionaire.

707
00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:10,840
The man I loved was never real.

708
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:13,680
He faked everything.

709
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:21,160
[crying] It was horrible, you know.

710
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:24,040
'Cause I still…

711
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:25,600
[breath shuddering]

712
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,920
In a sense, I still loved him, you know?

713
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:32,280
Or the person I thought that he was.
Like, you know everything is a lie,

714
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,280
but then you still have this fairy tale
that's going on, on your phone.

715
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:40,320
Simon, with still the heart behind it,
'cause I couldn't remove it.

716
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:43,800
'Cause I still wanted him to be true.

717
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:50,240
I don't understand
how someone can be so fucking evil.

718
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:52,920
I felt that he knew me.

719
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:55,400
[sniffles]

720
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,800
The minute they're gone,
I want to speak to my mom.

721
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:03,840
[line ringing]

722
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,560
She just told me,
"You need to get back home to Norway."

723
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:10,080
"I need you to be with me."

724
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:19,680
I was going through the messages
in the text.

725
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,960
I was still asking,
"When are we going to fix the money?"

726
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,880
The last messages between the two of us
is like, "I'm working on it."

727
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:33,200
And then I blocked him.

728
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:38,840
There was nothing else to say.

729
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,080
[phone ringing]

730
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:55,240
That's when I remember
he has my mom's number.

731
00:49:58,520 --> 00:49:59,800
[answering machine beeps]

732
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:04,040
[Simon] Hey, you blocked me,
I don't know what is your reason.

733
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,120
I'm trying to reach you.
You don't want to talk anyway.

734
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,560
I want to tell you something.
Take my advice.

735
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:11,160
Just watch out.

736
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,520
Because with every action
there will be a reaction.

737
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:15,560
[hangs up]

738
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:16,840
[beeping]

739
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:19,560
[Cecilie] I got super scared.

740
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:22,920
But my mom got even more scared.

741
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,880
[keypad tones]

742
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:28,880
[woman answers in Norwegian]

743
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,320
We call the police in Norway,
because he knows everything about me.

744
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,960
He has all my passport details, where I
was living, where my mom is living.

745
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:40,200
He's spoken to her on the phone.
He knows where I am.

746
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,480
But the police didn't seem to care.

747
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:49,000
I don't know what he is capable of.

748
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:54,360
[rain pattering]

749
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,440
[somber music playing]

750
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,720
I've been on the edge for several days.

751
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:09,120
I had all these creditors.
I had to let them know, each one of them.

752
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,560
It wasn't just two banks.
There were, like, nine of them.

753
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:21,920
For this kind of loan, the interest is so
high, that they would just eat me alive.

754
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:24,360
I felt that I was just drowning.

755
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,040
It was like someone was
just dragging me to the bottom.

756
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,120
[somber music continues]

757
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:36,720
I was driving down this road,
and I saw a trailer coming towards me,

758
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:37,920
and I was thinking…

759
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,400
[crying] "What if I just
take the car over," you know?

760
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,880
And just hit…
just hit the trailer, you know? [sobs]

761
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,640
Then at least it's done, you know?
And that's when I got scared.

762
00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:54,440
That's when I got really scared.

763
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,800
I put myself into a psychiatric ward
because I didn't know what to do.

764
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,880
[somber music continues playing]

765
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:08,920
[phone chimes repeatedly]

766
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:14,280
[Pernilla] I was at home, and I could see
the phone started flashing.

767
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:19,200
I see it's Simon,
and he has sent me news articles.

768
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:21,600
[tense music playing]

769
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:28,120
Simon's father is gonna be
questioned by the police

770
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,360
in a big diamond smuggling case.

771
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:37,200
Members of Simon's family
have gotten arrested. Russia is involved.

772
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:40,840
-[line ringing]
-I give him a call.

773
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:42,080
That sounds really scary…

774
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:44,440
He sounds all over the place.

775
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:49,800
He says police went in. They have
shut down all accounts, all credit cards.

776
00:52:50,720 --> 00:52:54,800
One girl in the office literally jumped
from the building and killed herself.

777
00:52:56,240 --> 00:53:00,240
But Simon says he doesn't believe
that this lady jumped off a building.

778
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,160
He believes that someone went in
and threw her out.

779
00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:05,720
[Simon] We don't have the options,
you know, the…

780
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,480
And I'm getting so scared.
I'm like, "What is really going on?"

781
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:13,840
And he says that the security situation
right now is really bad.

782
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:16,520
[Simon] I have the worst night in my life.

783
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:18,080
[phone chimes]

784
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:21,200
A few days later,
I can feel my phone buzzing.

785
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:24,640
Simon is sending a lot of messages.

786
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:31,040
Oh, my God, what happened last night?

787
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,640
[Simon] Someone tried to stab me, and

788
00:53:33,720 --> 00:53:35,520
so Peter broke his hand.

789
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,680
[Pernilla] Jesus.
What do you mean tried to stab you?

790
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:39,120
What is going on?

791
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:42,760
Simon said,
"This is my enemies behind this."

792
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:46,440
He was really concerned
that someone was after him.

793
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:47,840
[phone chimes]

794
00:53:49,720 --> 00:53:51,800
And then I get a voice note from him.

795
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:55,200
[Simon] I want to ask you, uh, a favor.

796
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:59,160
"Pernilla, I am really embarrassed
to even ask you."

797
00:53:59,240 --> 00:54:01,760
"Would it be possible
for me to borrow $30,000?"

798
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:03,840
[tense music playing]

799
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,840
It would be a huge, huge, huge,
huge, huge, huge help.

800
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:14,800
Please let me know if you can
do something. Thank you so much.

801
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,120
I didn't have $30,000 to spare.

802
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:20,400
I'd been at my mom's now for three months.

803
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:22,080
I had my savings

804
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:26,280
that was gonna go to buy myself a new
apartment where I'm supposed to live.

805
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,160
But, what is more important,

806
00:54:28,240 --> 00:54:32,920
my friend's security situation
or me buying an apartment?

807
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,000
[tense music playing]

808
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:42,960
[Simon] Thank you
for everything you've done…

809
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:46,920
[Pernilla] And I make a bank transfer
while I'm on the phone with him.

810
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,760
He's really grateful to have such a good
friend as me that he really can trust.

811
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:52,840
[melancholy music playing]

812
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:01,040
[Cecilie] I was laying in bed
at the psychiatric ward, on my phone,

813
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:04,720
going through more details
with the people that I had met.

814
00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:09,880
I knew that Simon was lying.
But what about the others?

815
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:13,880
Peter, the bodyguard.

816
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:18,160
If it wasn't real,
then did he lie to me as well?

817
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:22,000
Who is the woman with the kid?

818
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,000
Was that Simon's daughter?

819
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:31,760
I write a message to Amex.

820
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:33,720
Can you give me some more information?

821
00:55:34,720 --> 00:55:39,200
They tell me to Google Shimon Hayut
and that I will find some answers.

822
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:44,880
There's an article in Finnish.

823
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:49,760
So I go into Google Translate.

824
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,400
Israeli multi-millionaire
that cheated on women.

825
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:00,680
What the fuck?

826
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:02,440
[tense music playing]

827
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:11,360
Back in 2015, he had been defrauding
three Finnish women.

828
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:15,480
They don't give names. They are protected.

829
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:22,960
He was saying that he was in the weapons
industry to one of the women.

830
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:26,080
To another woman,
he said he was a Mossad agent.

831
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:33,560
That's insane. He goes to prison.
He becomes even worse.

832
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,800
They let out a guy that has almost been,
like, cooking up a new plan.

833
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:43,480
You knew he would
just continue, continue, continue.

834
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:46,640
Who's gonna stop him?

835
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:51,640
I had to stop him.

836
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:59,240
I needed to go to the biggest newspaper
in Norway, VG.

837
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:04,920
I was just praying, you know,
that they would take this on.

838
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,000
[dramatic music playing]

839
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:15,840
[journalist] This was really like
an unbelievable story.

840
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,360
A guy who had pretended to be
a son of a diamond billionaire.

841
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:27,800
Private jets, a luxury lifestyle. It, uh,
sounds almost like a fairy tale or movie.

842
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:31,920
[journalist 2] First thing you ask
as a journalist is

843
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,720
what kind of documentation
can you share with us?

844
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:37,120
You can't print it without documentation.

845
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:42,520
[Cecilie] Of course, I have WhatsApp.

846
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:50,760
I then imagine strangers reading through
my inner thoughts, my fears,

847
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,920
my love for this guy, you know?

848
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,600
It's super private. It's selfies in bed.

849
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,400
But the evidence came first,
and I just sent it over.

850
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:05,640
[Natalie] It was almost 400 pages of text.

851
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:06,720
[Erlend] There's video.

852
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:08,560
[Natalie] Pictures.

853
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,080
[Simon] Okay, baby. I'm taking off now.

854
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:12,760
[Natalie] Audio messages.

855
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:14,760
[Erlend] It's astounding.

856
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:18,040
It's like looking
into the anatomy of the relationship.

857
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:22,640
We can follow how this developed
minute by minute.

858
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:24,720
[dramatic music playing]

859
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,280
[Kristoffer] He's extremely professional
in what he does.

860
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:32,800
[Natalie] The first date was a good way

861
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:36,120
to lure her to believe
that he was really successful.

862
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:39,880
This is an emotional con.

863
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:43,440
He was promising so much…

864
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:45,600
an apartment together,

865
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:47,040
vacations,

866
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:50,120
building a family together.

867
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:55,320
[Simon] I wanted to ask you a favor.

868
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,360
[Natalie] The first request for money

869
00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:00,240
comes after
they've been dating for over a month.

870
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:06,000
And he has been using that month
to make her fall in love with him,

871
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:12,160
prove that he is really rich,
and make her afraid of his enemies.

872
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:16,360
There's no reason to believe
that Simon is not able to pay her back,

873
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:19,120
because she has seen how wealthy he is.

874
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:23,320
[Natalie] Simon is surrounded
by a lot of people,

875
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:26,400
especially his bodyguard
and his business partner.

876
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:33,440
We don't know who is working with Simon
and how far this conspiracy actually goes.

877
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:40,200
Cecilie was also sending us
this Finnish article.

878
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:46,480
Is Shimon Hayut and Simon Leviev
the same guy?

879
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:52,080
[Natalie] We all got in touch
with the authorities

880
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:55,640
and found out the names
of the three Finnish women.

881
00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:02,000
I ask Cecilie, does she recognize
the victims' names?

882
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:07,760
[typing]

883
01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:10,560
[Cecilie] I Google these women.

884
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:18,840
I don't recognize anyone.

885
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,400
And then a face pops up
that is very familiar.

886
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:33,480
[eerie music playing]

887
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:37,280
It's the same woman
that was on the jet with me.

888
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:41,200
The same woman
that has a child with Simon.

889
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:46,240
How on the fucking Earth
were you a victim?

890
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:50,280
You were standing at the trial
back in 2016.

891
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:53,240
Putting him to jail,

892
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,800
knowing that he had lied to you,

893
01:00:56,880 --> 01:01:02,480
and suddenly, three years later, you're
sitting on a private jet with Simon.

894
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:07,920
The things that she told me in that car

895
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:10,760
made me really believe
that he was a great guy.

896
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:14,960
Why didn't she warn me?

897
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:26,640
[Natalie] That was extraordinary,

898
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:31,280
and it made it hard
because we didn't know who to trust.

899
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:40,920
But we still had to prove to the police
that Shimon Yehuda Hayut and Simon Leviev

900
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:42,280
was the same person.

901
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:44,440
[tense music playing]

902
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:49,440
In the indictment,
we have his date of birth.

903
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:54,080
[Kristoffer] So when we typed in
"Shimon Hayut" in Google,

904
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,680
that didn't give us much,
basically nothing.

905
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:03,480
But there's one thing that Simon Leviev
and Shimon Hayut has in common.

906
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:04,960
They're both from Israel.

907
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:11,200
[Erlend] We needed someone who knew Hebrew
and knew the country of Israel.

908
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:17,480
[Natalie] So we contacted
this journalist called Uri.

909
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:26,840
Uri finds out the last known address for
Shimon Hayut. We need to go to Israel.

910
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:28,920
[tense music playing]

911
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:42,280
[Kristoffer] We're driving towards
the outskirts of the city,

912
01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:44,360
we see more narrow streets,

913
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:48,360
smaller apartment buildings,
and a lot of ultra-Orthodox Jews.

914
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:53,040
[Natalie] This was the total opposite

915
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:56,760
of how he wanted to present his life
in social media.

916
01:02:59,080 --> 01:02:59,920
Is it here?

917
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:01,920
[Uri] So let's park, uh…

918
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:05,920
[speaking Hebrew]

919
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,360
-[Uri] I asked him to stay very near.
-[Kristoffer] Okay.

920
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:10,800
[Uri] In case we need to escape.

921
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:13,080
Uri, Natalie, and I go out.

922
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:17,640
My job is to be the cameraman
that documents everything that happens.

923
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:18,680
That's the name.

924
01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:20,960
That's the name. This one.

925
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:28,160
Hmm.

926
01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:39,760
What's it says?

927
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:41,640
It's a letter for him.

928
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:43,320
-For Shimon?
-Shimon Hayut.

929
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:44,680
Yeah, this one.

930
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:48,120
So he might actually be staying here.

931
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:51,720
So this is a letter from the authorities

932
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:54,680
that ask money back from people
when you owe money.

933
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:56,320
Oh, okay.

934
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:02,280
[in Hebrew] Hello.

935
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:06,160
Who are you?

936
01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:07,760
We're journalists.

937
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:10,240
We're looking for Simon.

938
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:11,480
[woman] Who is it?

939
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:14,920
-You are not allowed to be here.
-[woman] But, Mom, come in.

940
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:16,440
So, you're Simon's mother.

941
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:19,080
-Where is he?
-Where is he?

942
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:21,400
You're looking for him,
I'm looking for him.

943
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:26,200
He's swindled a woman in Norway
for a quarter of a million dollars.

944
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:29,680
I have absolutely no contact with him.
I have nothing to do with him.

945
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:32,600
I've not had contact with him
since he was 18 years old.

946
01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:38,240
-But his registered address is here.
-He changed his name and address.

947
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:40,160
He is not Hayut anymore.

948
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:41,800
-So who is he?
-Leviev.

949
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:44,240
[in English] Let's go.

950
01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:51,880
[Natalie] To confirm that Simon and Shimon
was the same person,

951
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:54,040
we need to see the local police.

952
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:56,480
Is this face familiar to you?

953
01:04:58,080 --> 01:04:58,920
[in Hebrew] Yes.

954
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:07,920
In 2017, he changed his name
to Simon Leviev.

955
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:11,480
Before that, he was known as Shimon Hayut.

956
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:14,480
[Kristoffer in English]
The police confirmed

957
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:16,240
that Simon Leviev and Shimon Hayut

958
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:18,280
is the same guy convicted in Finland.

959
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:21,600
He uses many names.

960
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:27,760
He has been a fraudster
since his late teens.

961
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:34,120
You start to piece together
some more of the puzzle.

962
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:45,000
Back in 2011, Simon was suspected
of stealing a check from his employer.

963
01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:51,160
He moves on to other stolen checks
and forged checks.

964
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:55,480
Simon was supposed to meet in court,
but he fled the country.

965
01:05:56,960 --> 01:06:00,040
[policewoman in Hebrew]
But then he left Israel.

966
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:02,440
He forged a passport and left the country.

967
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:05,040
[Natalie in English]
So he's wanted by the police?

968
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:05,960
[in Hebrew] Yes.

969
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,360
The Israeli authorities
demand that he be found

970
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:16,000
so the trial against him can continue.

971
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:18,960
And we're doing what we can
to find him and bring him in.

972
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:24,040
[Natalie in English] We got a lot of new
and really good information

973
01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:25,600
after the trip to Israel,

974
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:29,680
but we don't know where he is right now.

975
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:37,920
Well, I will keep you posted.

976
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:40,240
Everybody else got their money,
so you should too.

977
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:42,600
I will see what's going on.
I will call the bank.

978
01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:44,240
Love you. Miss you. Bye-bye.

979
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:50,800
He really apologizes and says
that he needs to borrow a little bit more.

980
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:54,640
I told him, "Simon, you were supposed
to transfer back this money you borrowed

981
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:56,120
a week or two after."

982
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:58,640
"Are you sure
everything is gonna be okay?"

983
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:01,280
He's like,
"Yeah, everything is gonna be okay."

984
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:06,560
So I transfer him another $10,000.

985
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:09,680
[Simon] I guarantee you
I will make payment next week.

986
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:20,160
[Pernilla] The next week,
he texts me a bank receipt for $100,000.

987
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:25,440
Simon is being very generous.
He only owes me 40,000.

988
01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:31,160
Oh, seriously, Simon,
that is so nice of you.

989
01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:34,040
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you so, so much.

990
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:35,400
Kisses.

991
01:07:35,480 --> 01:07:37,360
[Simon]
Through the most difficult moments,

992
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:38,720
you have been there for me.

993
01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:42,480
So that's why I wanted to thank you
from the bottom of my heart.

994
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:47,680
And then the money just don't arrive.

995
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:52,120
[Simon] Unfortunately,
the bank want me there physically

996
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:55,280
with my lawyer
to sign some few other papers.

997
01:07:55,360 --> 01:08:00,920
I need to fly and I need to fix it up.
I want to ask you a favor.

998
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:05,760
So I pay for these flights
on my American Express card.

999
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:09,280
[Simon] The money
has left our bank account

1000
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:12,280
so you have nothing to worry about.

1001
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:14,840
[Pernilla] He asked me to help him
with another flight.

1002
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:18,680
And then another flight,
and then another flight.

1003
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:22,520
[sighs] So with time just passing,
money doesn't come in.

1004
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:26,840
[crying] I was just at the bank
and they can't find any transfer.

1005
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:30,080
And that I need to pay my bills.
I'm really freaking out.

1006
01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:34,440
I'm panicking. Like, I got myself
in so, so much trouble right now.

1007
01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:37,640
[Simon] They put a stop on my account.

1008
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:41,640
Of course I can give you
one of my watches.

1009
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:44,160
I have a watch worth over 100K.

1010
01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:49,320
So he tells me
he will book me a flight to wherever he is

1011
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:51,680
within a couple of days
to collect the watch.

1012
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:02,680
We have a lot of new information,
but we still haven't found him.

1013
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:07,960
So what we have to do is go back into
the documentation we got from Cecilie.

1014
01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:10,040
[tense music playing]

1015
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:21,640
Cecilie gave us a lot of transactions
done with her Amex card.

1016
01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:27,880
In these transactions,
we see flight tickets.

1017
01:09:29,480 --> 01:09:30,960
There are also names.

1018
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:36,200
[Natalie] The business partner.

1019
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:38,920
The bodyguard.

1020
01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:44,200
But we could also find names
of different women.

1021
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:48,080
[Erlend] So one of the names
is Pernilla Sjoholm.

1022
01:09:55,080 --> 01:10:00,000
So I find Pernilla on Facebook
and write a message to her.

1023
01:10:04,160 --> 01:10:05,200
[chimes]

1024
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:11,640
[tense music playing]

1025
01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:25,160
I… panic.

1026
01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:26,880
I thought I was gonna pass out.

1027
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:30,800
I forward the message
straight over to Simon.

1028
01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:36,160
[ringing]

1029
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:38,200
[Simon] I would not…

1030
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:39,920
[Pernilla] He says I shouldn't worry,

1031
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:42,840
that this is
his enemies trying to get information.

1032
01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:47,440
He really tries to calm me down and even
just, like, after hanging up the phone,

1033
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:50,960
I'm starting to realize, like,
this can't be made up.

1034
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:53,240
[ringing]

1035
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:55,880
My phone rings. It is Erlend.

1036
01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:01,640
So I asked her, "Can I come to Stockholm
to meet you to talk through your story?"

1037
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:04,600
I get on a plane.
We were meeting up the next day.

1038
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:09,280
[Pernilla] He tells me everything.

1039
01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:14,000
I am furious.
Why would Simon do this to me?

1040
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:18,640
This was a friend
who I really cared about, who I loved.

1041
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:25,440
He really created this person
that I would like,

1042
01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:29,120
someone who would be a really good friend.

1043
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:37,360
So, if it's not only through romantic
relationships that he's pursuing scams,

1044
01:11:37,440 --> 01:11:39,040
what else could there be?

1045
01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:46,760
[Pernilla] I tell Erlend
about all the travels

1046
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:49,680
and the amount of money
he has been spending,

1047
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:52,880
and all the other people that I have met.

1048
01:11:54,440 --> 01:11:57,800
When he tells me
about this Norwegian girl,

1049
01:11:57,880 --> 01:12:01,600
I'm starting to realize
that the amount of money she has lost

1050
01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:04,120
doesn't add up to the lifestyle
that he's been living,

1051
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:08,760
because there is an extreme amount
of money that has been spent.

1052
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:13,280
This must just be the tip of the iceberg.

1053
01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:19,920
After looking at Pernilla's bank accounts,
I realize this may be a Ponzi scheme.

1054
01:12:21,440 --> 01:12:22,480
[dramatic music playing]

1055
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:26,600
He uses Cecilie's money on Pernilla,

1056
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:30,480
and he uses Pernilla's money
on somebody else.

1057
01:12:34,480 --> 01:12:39,880
It's never his name on the credit card,
so he has plausible excuse.

1058
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:44,120
He can always say,
"I was just borrowing the money."

1059
01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:49,320
It's almost like the perfect scam.

1060
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:54,720
[Erlend] Of course, by using
one woman's credit card

1061
01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:59,080
to buy plane tickets to a second woman
and to buy a dinner to a third,

1062
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:03,080
he was able to travel a lot,
and he never stayed long in one place.

1063
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:09,960
That made it very hard for
local police authorities with low budgets

1064
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:14,080
to go after a man that,
in their world, was like a small scam.

1065
01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:16,040
Hey, we order all the menu.

1066
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:20,240
I ask Pernilla,
"Can you tell me where he is?"

1067
01:13:22,720 --> 01:13:25,400
[Pernilla] I don't just only know
where he is.

1068
01:13:25,480 --> 01:13:28,160
I am booked on a flight
to go and see him tomorrow.

1069
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:29,600
He's in Munich.

1070
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:33,040
In less than 10 hours,
we need to be in Munich.

1071
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:35,440
[bells tolling faintly]

1072
01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:43,960
[somber music playing]

1073
01:13:46,360 --> 01:13:49,160
[Natalie] Our goal in Munich
was to film him

1074
01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:52,840
to prove to the police
that he was possible to find.

1075
01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:56,600
You're really focused.

1076
01:13:56,680 --> 01:13:59,640
You know you have this one chance
to get what you want.

1077
01:13:59,720 --> 01:14:04,760
Also you have responsibility for Pernilla.

1078
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:11,520
Simon can absolutely not find out that
they are there or that I have done this,

1079
01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:13,960
because I don't know
if it's dangerous for me

1080
01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:16,960
if he does find out
that I'm doing this behind his back.

1081
01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:21,760
I'm going in there
trying to sabotage his fabulous life.

1082
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:23,720
The plan is to keep a safe distance,

1083
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:27,120
and to do that, Natalie is tracking
Pernilla's whereabouts on the iPhone.

1084
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:30,960
[Natalie] In case Simon should look
at Pernilla's phone,

1085
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:34,080
Pernilla saves my number
as a different name.

1086
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:35,000
[phone ringing]

1087
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:39,120
That makes it possible for Pernilla
to have constant contact with me.

1088
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:43,720
[in Norwegian] She writes
that she's just landed.

1089
01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:48,560
We have a photographer outside the airport
who may be able to get pictures.

1090
01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:51,240
She writes, "My friend is picking me up."

1091
01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:55,880
That must be Simon.

1092
01:14:57,280 --> 01:15:00,640
I've now received a picture
from the photographer.

1093
01:15:04,440 --> 01:15:08,360
Wow, he's in Munich.

1094
01:15:08,440 --> 01:15:10,720
[in English] My heart is pounding.

1095
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:14,880
This is the first time
I meet his business partner, Avishay,

1096
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:17,000
that he had told me so much about.

1097
01:15:18,440 --> 01:15:21,800
I'm starting to become very, very paranoid

1098
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:25,360
because who am I in the car with?
Who are they really?

1099
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:35,200
I'm looking at him, and I know the truth,
like everything that he has done.

1100
01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:41,880
These former feelings that I had
that this was my friend just got erased.

1101
01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:45,160
I don't think I ever hated a person
my entire life

1102
01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:47,440
until that second
when I was sitting in that car

1103
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:48,840
and just looking at him.

1104
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:53,000
[Natalie] Pernilla texted me

1105
01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:56,640
that they were going
to Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

1106
01:15:56,720 --> 01:16:00,280
That's a fancy hotel
with a restaurant inside.

1107
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:02,080
Okay.

1108
01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:05,080
The most important job I had in there

1109
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:08,600
was to text Kristoffer
and the still photographer

1110
01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:11,440
whenever they were leaving the restaurant.

1111
01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:15,440
[Kristoffer] Opposite,
there's a parking garage.

1112
01:16:16,360 --> 01:16:18,600
Just behind gaps in the wall,

1113
01:16:18,680 --> 01:16:21,960
we can place our lenses
to capture Simon as he walks out.

1114
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:28,200
Everyone knew about him.
"Welcome back, Mr. Leviev."

1115
01:16:28,280 --> 01:16:30,320
And that gets me going.

1116
01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:33,880
What have you been doing in Munich?
How many victims are here?

1117
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:39,200
He tells me he's sorry
about the situation with the money

1118
01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:40,840
and he gives me the watch.

1119
01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:45,760
He orders everything on the menu,

1120
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:49,480
and I feel so bad even sitting there
when we're having this dinner,

1121
01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:52,040
'cause the only thing
that goes in my head is,

1122
01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:53,640
"Who's paying for this dinner?"

1123
01:16:55,360 --> 01:16:58,560
We're just waiting and waiting
for a text from Natalie.

1124
01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:00,640
[tense music playing]

1125
01:17:18,160 --> 01:17:19,640
[camera shutter clicking]

1126
01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:24,640
Simon looks in our direction, and we hide.

1127
01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:29,800
Simon starts speaking in Hebrew
and getting very upset to Avishay.

1128
01:17:29,880 --> 01:17:31,480
And I'm like, "What's going on?"

1129
01:17:31,560 --> 01:17:34,240
And they were like,
"There's a camera guy over there."

1130
01:17:35,480 --> 01:17:38,400
And he started screaming, like,
"Get into the car!"

1131
01:17:38,480 --> 01:17:39,720
[car engine revving]

1132
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:41,840
[dramatic music playing]

1133
01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:47,680
Driving around so fast through Munich.

1134
01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:56,080
I don't know what they're saying. Do they
know that I have set them up to do this?

1135
01:17:56,160 --> 01:17:57,720
What are they really gonna do with me?

1136
01:18:01,160 --> 01:18:05,400
Just think, like, "Pernilla, you play
your biggest act you have ever done

1137
01:18:05,480 --> 01:18:08,600
your entire life, because otherwise
you are never coming home."

1138
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:13,080
I'm trying to twist everything around.

1139
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:18,280
I'm screaming at him, like, "Is this your
enemies? Are they after me now, Simon?"

1140
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:22,240
He's trying to calm down the situation,
like, "No, it's me they're after."

1141
01:18:23,480 --> 01:18:25,600
I'm telling him, "Just drop me off."

1142
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:27,200
[brakes squealing]

1143
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:33,160
I never opened a car door
as fast in my entire life.

1144
01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:35,880
[faint traffic, sirens wailing]

1145
01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:41,680
[Kristoffer] We were very concerned
about Pernilla.

1146
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:44,320
We realized we wouldn't be able
to confront him there.

1147
01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:50,840
We need to go back to Oslo
and work out our next step.

1148
01:18:56,760 --> 01:18:58,440
[Pernilla] I take the watch
to a pawn shop,

1149
01:18:58,520 --> 01:19:00,880
and they tell me it is fake.

1150
01:19:01,480 --> 01:19:05,240
Of course it is,
because nothing about him is real.

1151
01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:09,880
I really want to confront him
and at least tell me the truth.

1152
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:14,240
That's what you want from all people.
Just tell me the truth, how it is.

1153
01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:17,600
[indistinct conversation]

1154
01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:19,600
[Natalie] Pernilla really wants
to talk to him,

1155
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:22,200
and we are filming that call.

1156
01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:23,160
Hello.

1157
01:19:23,880 --> 01:19:25,200
Hey, what's up? Good morning.

1158
01:19:25,280 --> 01:19:26,120
Morning.

1159
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:27,320
Good afternoon. Sorry.

1160
01:19:27,400 --> 01:19:29,200
It's okay. What are you doing?

1161
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:31,400
I'm all right, and you?

1162
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:32,920
Um…

1163
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:35,800
I'm not so good, Simon.

1164
01:19:37,080 --> 01:19:37,920
What is it?

1165
01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:40,200
Can you just tell me the truth?

1166
01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:42,160
I told you the truth.

1167
01:19:42,240 --> 01:19:44,280
No, you haven't told me the truth.

1168
01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:47,200
Can you give me the entire truth?
At least I deserve that.

1169
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:50,760
I told you the entire truth,
I don't understand what is the--

1170
01:19:50,840 --> 01:19:54,200
Simon. Simon, I lost everything I have.

1171
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:56,960
Can you please tell me the truth
for once. It's a little--

1172
01:19:57,040 --> 01:20:02,400
Pernilla, you have no idea.
My enemies are trying to--

1173
01:20:02,480 --> 01:20:07,480
Simon! Simon! Simon!
Simon, listen to me. I know.

1174
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:09,240
What do you know?

1175
01:20:09,320 --> 01:20:10,160
I know about--

1176
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:11,880
Something that I don't know?

1177
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:13,000
What do you know?

1178
01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:15,080
I know everything. Simon, I know--

1179
01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:19,360
I know you're doing this fraud thing.
I know you've been in jail in Finland.

1180
01:20:19,440 --> 01:20:20,280
I know you're--

1181
01:20:20,360 --> 01:20:22,760
What the fuck is this bullshit?

1182
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:25,280
I know about the other people
that you have frauded.

1183
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:27,160
You double-cross me…

1184
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:29,520
I can tell you right now,

1185
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:31,920
you will pay for this
for the rest of your life.

1186
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:35,320
I am paying for the rest of my life.
You took everything I have.

1187
01:20:35,400 --> 01:20:40,520
This is your mistake. If you want
to make some claims against me,

1188
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:43,360
give me the evidence you have against me.

1189
01:20:43,440 --> 01:20:46,520
The Israeli police have confirmed you
with your picture.

1190
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:49,200
Nobody has confirmed anything.
That's not true.

1191
01:20:49,280 --> 01:20:50,160
Yes.

1192
01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:52,080
I had a flight to Amsterdam, right?

1193
01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:53,760
Yeah.

1194
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:55,000
Yeah, who paid for that?

1195
01:20:55,520 --> 01:20:56,360
I paid for it!

1196
01:20:56,440 --> 01:20:57,320
No, you didn't.

1197
01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:01,480
I have the transaction for the ticket,
and it's paid by another woman. [sniffles]

1198
01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:03,960
Because of my enemies
I couldn't use my own…

1199
01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:06,120
I have paid these people in cash.

1200
01:21:06,200 --> 01:21:07,440
I did give them money.

1201
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:09,760
Simon, you can't keep doing this.

1202
01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:11,880
Like, it's crazy.

1203
01:21:13,240 --> 01:21:15,560
Honey, what have you done this all for?

1204
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:18,520
There will be a price,
and I promise it'll be bigger than money.

1205
01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:20,200
What do you mean, the price?

1206
01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:23,600
You double-cross me,
you're gonna pay for it.

1207
01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:27,000
[sighs]

1208
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:30,320
[Pernilla] I really got scared,
because what have I done?

1209
01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:37,280
The only thing that we can do is to make
the VG piece as big as possible

1210
01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:38,800
to get his face out there,

1211
01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:41,800
because if people would know who he is
and recognize his face,

1212
01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:43,080
he can't do this anymore.

1213
01:21:43,160 --> 01:21:45,160
[dramatic music playing]

1214
01:21:47,520 --> 01:21:50,680
Coming forward with a story like this
takes a lot of courage.

1215
01:21:50,760 --> 01:21:55,320
I was feeling anxious, you know.
VG is the biggest newspaper in Norway.

1216
01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:57,880
Like, my face would be on the front cover.

1217
01:21:57,960 --> 01:22:00,280
There would be this big online special.

1218
01:22:00,840 --> 01:22:04,080
I know that people were gonna judge me.
Am I ready?

1219
01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:10,240
Your entire life
is never gonna be the same again.

1220
01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:23,240
Everything just, like, went wildfire.
It felt like a nightmare.

1221
01:22:26,320 --> 01:22:29,160
Social media is brutal, you know.
They'll eat you alive.

1222
01:22:29,240 --> 01:22:33,160
People are saying what a gold digger
you are or, "She deserved this."

1223
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:36,520
[Pernilla crying] A gold digger
would never give out a penny.

1224
01:22:37,440 --> 01:22:41,440
I never understood this,
how you can blame a victim.

1225
01:22:43,360 --> 01:22:46,280
All I did was just trying to help people.

1226
01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:49,680
I didn't want anyone else to get hurt.

1227
01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:57,560
[Cecilie] But it was kind of nice
to just see

1228
01:22:57,640 --> 01:23:01,200
and try to focus on the positive things
that people were writing.

1229
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:09,880
I could see the amount of shares.

1230
01:23:10,480 --> 01:23:12,520
Comment after comment after comment.

1231
01:23:12,600 --> 01:23:15,120
"Look at this story," you know.
"It's just insane."

1232
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:21,200
[Natalie] We were sitting there watching
the numbers go up and up.

1233
01:23:22,520 --> 01:23:27,320
Everybody wanted to read
The Tinder Swindler. It was going viral.

1234
01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:32,840
This is what I wanted.
His face is there. His name is there.

1235
01:23:32,920 --> 01:23:36,800
No matter who he meets and he says,
"Hi. My name is Simon Leviev,"

1236
01:23:36,880 --> 01:23:39,680
the moment they Google him now,
it will be there.

1237
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:47,640
I met Pernilla.
Immediately, we had a bond.

1238
01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:53,160
This is the only person who really
understands what I am going through.

1239
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:56,480
[Cecilie] We wanted
to keep the momentum up.

1240
01:23:56,560 --> 01:23:58,240
We joined forces.

1241
01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:01,440
Both of us had a goal
that this needed to come out

1242
01:24:01,520 --> 01:24:05,360
in as many newspapers
in as many countries as possible.

1243
01:24:05,440 --> 01:24:06,800
-Hello.
-Hi.

1244
01:24:07,320 --> 01:24:09,720
[reporter] First of all,
I wanted to apologize

1245
01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:14,920
and let you know
that not all Israeli men are such crooks.

1246
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:20,520
Talk shows and news agencies in the US,
UK, Netherlands, Germany as well.

1247
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:24,880
We needed more exposure and more countries
to make their own investigations.

1248
01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:28,160
Like, "What did he do in our country?
Do we have any victims here?"

1249
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:32,360
But another thing was
to actually get the police

1250
01:24:32,440 --> 01:24:35,440
to feel the pressure from the media,
the pressure from the public,

1251
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:36,960
and do something about this.

1252
01:24:40,600 --> 01:24:43,840
[Natalie] The response
was really overwhelming.

1253
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:48,400
We were contacted by victims
all over the world.

1254
01:24:48,480 --> 01:24:50,000
[mail alert chiming]

1255
01:24:50,080 --> 01:24:54,480
[woman 1] I met him on Tinder in 2015.
We met up Copenhagen…

1256
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:57,560
[woman 2] We dated for around six months.
He met my family and friends.

1257
01:24:57,640 --> 01:24:59,200
[man 1] He stayed with us in New York.

1258
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:01,200
He said his name was Shimon Yehuda Hayut.

1259
01:25:01,280 --> 01:25:04,600
-[woman 1] His name was Mordechay Tapiro.
-[woman 2] His name was Simon Leviev.

1260
01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:08,440
[man 2] My wife and I hired Simon
to babysit our five-year-old son.

1261
01:25:08,520 --> 01:25:11,200
He was 20 years old at the time.

1262
01:25:11,280 --> 01:25:14,440
We knew that his father was a rabbi
and he came from a very…

1263
01:25:14,520 --> 01:25:16,600
[woman 3] He told me
he was heir to an Israeli airline.

1264
01:25:16,680 --> 01:25:17,720
He employed me as his PA.

1265
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:20,120
[man 3] He hired me
as his personal chauffeur.

1266
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:23,040
And he hired a lot of expensive cars.

1267
01:25:23,120 --> 01:25:26,720
He never paid the bill. $300,000.

1268
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:30,720
[woman 4] He told me
that he was a Mossad agent

1269
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:33,560
working undercover as a pilot.

1270
01:25:35,360 --> 01:25:38,440
[woman 1] He spent nearly $20,000.

1271
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:43,360
[man 1] In just three days,
he spent $42,000 on our Amex card.

1272
01:25:43,440 --> 01:25:45,720
[man 3] Three of our checks
had been forged.

1273
01:25:45,800 --> 01:25:48,080
[woman 2] Nearly $50,000 in total.

1274
01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:51,760
[woman 4] I'm still not over it,
six years later.

1275
01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:53,280
I'm scared of him.

1276
01:25:58,200 --> 01:26:00,880
[Natalie] We got all this information,

1277
01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:03,200
but nothing happened to him.

1278
01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:06,320
He was still on the run,
he was still a free man,

1279
01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:09,920
even though we knew
that he was reported to the police

1280
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:12,480
in at least seven different countries.

1281
01:26:20,440 --> 01:26:23,000
[woman] I was at the airport in Prague.

1282
01:26:23,080 --> 01:26:26,120
I had been visiting my boyfriend.

1283
01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:29,320
While I was waiting for my plane to leave,

1284
01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:35,760
I was scrolling through Instagram,
and I saw the picture of my boyfriend.

1285
01:26:36,440 --> 01:26:37,800
I clicked on it.

1286
01:26:39,480 --> 01:26:40,760
"The Tinder Swindler"?

1287
01:26:42,120 --> 01:26:43,440
What the fuck is this?

1288
01:26:46,040 --> 01:26:47,480
I was completely in shock.

1289
01:26:48,320 --> 01:26:52,120
I sent the article to Simon,
and he started calling me.

1290
01:26:52,200 --> 01:26:53,080
[phone ringing]

1291
01:26:53,160 --> 01:26:55,120
We were about to take off,

1292
01:26:55,200 --> 01:26:59,600
so I downloaded the article
and put my phone on airplane mode.

1293
01:27:02,720 --> 01:27:07,040
I saw that this girl Cecilie
met him on Tinder.

1294
01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:09,280
I also met him on Tinder.

1295
01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:14,640
He also took me to a five-star hotel
on the first date.

1296
01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:23,800
[emotional music playing]

1297
01:27:23,880 --> 01:27:26,640
I was already dating Simon for 14 months.

1298
01:27:27,360 --> 01:27:30,480
So we were in a serious relationship.

1299
01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:33,560
I loved him very much.

1300
01:27:35,480 --> 01:27:39,520
He was very thoughtful.
He would remember every little thing.

1301
01:27:41,920 --> 01:27:44,280
I shared my whole heart with him.

1302
01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:51,400
We started talking about
settling down together, starting a family.

1303
01:27:53,520 --> 01:27:56,800
I really felt
we were meant for each other.

1304
01:28:04,600 --> 01:28:08,880
I was scrolling through the article.
I saw these videos coming up.

1305
01:28:09,880 --> 01:28:13,120
Cecilie, my love, I love you.
I miss you. I can't wait to see you.

1306
01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:15,320
He sent me the same video.

1307
01:28:15,400 --> 01:28:16,680
Ayleen, darling,

1308
01:28:18,040 --> 01:28:19,000
I miss you.

1309
01:28:19,080 --> 01:28:19,920
Peter.

1310
01:28:21,080 --> 01:28:22,360
[Simon chuckles]

1311
01:28:22,440 --> 01:28:25,960
I went through my WhatsApp history,
and I started to compare.

1312
01:28:27,000 --> 01:28:31,680
He was sending exactly the same words
to her as he did to me.

1313
01:28:32,360 --> 01:28:36,320
"Good morning, love. How are you?
I love you. I miss you."

1314
01:28:36,400 --> 01:28:37,880
"I wanna have babies with you."

1315
01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:42,760
He took Cecilie to Amsterdam, my hometown.

1316
01:28:43,400 --> 01:28:47,360
Exactly the same period as we were dating,

1317
01:28:47,440 --> 01:28:52,480
she was looking for houses
to start living with him in London.

1318
01:28:53,720 --> 01:28:56,800
I was also looking for houses
in Amsterdam.

1319
01:28:58,680 --> 01:29:02,520
The same day, he was flying to Oslo
for a business trip,

1320
01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:05,040
he was just going out to see her.

1321
01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:10,200
He texted me, "I'm tired as fuck."
Yeah, of course.

1322
01:29:10,280 --> 01:29:13,360
He was with Cecilie all night.

1323
01:29:15,440 --> 01:29:18,760
He told me that this business deal
in Munich went wrong.

1324
01:29:20,320 --> 01:29:23,200
But he was meeting Pernilla.

1325
01:29:26,160 --> 01:29:27,240
[Simon] Peter is down!

1326
01:29:29,080 --> 01:29:32,360
He sent exactly the same pictures to me,

1327
01:29:33,520 --> 01:29:36,800
telling me that his enemies
had beaten Peter up.

1328
01:29:37,840 --> 01:29:41,600
When I got those pictures,
I was terrified.

1329
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:47,520
It made me paranoid,
constantly looking over my shoulder.

1330
01:29:48,640 --> 01:29:53,520
A few years ago, I was followed
by two guys and they beat me up.

1331
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:56,200
I told Simon about this.

1332
01:29:56,720 --> 01:30:03,400
When Simon said I was being followed,
I was full of anxiety all the time.

1333
01:30:05,760 --> 01:30:08,120
I'm reading that he is a fugitive.

1334
01:30:10,840 --> 01:30:12,840
A convicted criminal.

1335
01:30:14,400 --> 01:30:17,880
He swindled women for millions.

1336
01:30:18,960 --> 01:30:24,680
My heart almost stopped beating,
because I also lent him money.

1337
01:30:28,760 --> 01:30:30,560
It started off small.

1338
01:30:32,840 --> 01:30:38,000
His enemies were tracking his phones,
so he asked me to get some SIM cards.

1339
01:30:38,880 --> 01:30:41,040
So I was paying off those bills.

1340
01:30:41,120 --> 01:30:43,840
But it became more and more and more.

1341
01:30:45,160 --> 01:30:50,120
I gave him $140,000. So much money.

1342
01:30:53,120 --> 01:30:58,200
Designer clothes, flight tickets
for other women. Fancy dinners.

1343
01:30:59,320 --> 01:31:03,600
Now I see,
my money he spent on basically bullshit.

1344
01:31:08,760 --> 01:31:10,360
I had so many emotions.

1345
01:31:10,440 --> 01:31:12,520
The cheating part, the money part.

1346
01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:18,200
On one small flight, I lost everything.

1347
01:31:20,520 --> 01:31:22,560
I didn't want the plane to land,

1348
01:31:22,640 --> 01:31:27,840
because I needed to face reality,
and that reality was terrifying.

1349
01:31:32,040 --> 01:31:36,560
The moment I land in Amsterdam,
I knew he would call me.

1350
01:31:36,640 --> 01:31:38,160
[flight crew] …an enjoyable flight.

1351
01:31:38,240 --> 01:31:40,840
Thank you for flying with us,
and have a pleasant evening.

1352
01:31:43,280 --> 01:31:44,360
[chimes]

1353
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:49,320
[ringing]

1354
01:31:55,800 --> 01:31:58,240
[Simon] I mean, I don't know
where this shit came from.

1355
01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:00,840
[Ayleen] He says the article was fake.

1356
01:32:00,920 --> 01:32:05,080
Cecilie and Pernilla
would have been paid by his enemies

1357
01:32:05,160 --> 01:32:07,240
to create this article.

1358
01:32:08,680 --> 01:32:13,520
I knew I was defrauded.
I knew that he was fake.

1359
01:32:13,600 --> 01:32:15,440
-I love you. I care about you--
-[hangs up]

1360
01:32:17,640 --> 01:32:18,920
[line ringing]

1361
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:21,600
[woman answers in Dutch]

1362
01:32:21,680 --> 01:32:23,320
[Ayleen] I talked to the police.

1363
01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:26,240
They said they needed time
to build this case,

1364
01:32:26,320 --> 01:32:28,760
but it was something I didn't have,

1365
01:32:28,840 --> 01:32:32,080
because I knew that Simon was a fugitive.

1366
01:32:32,160 --> 01:32:34,840
The moment he was able to get away,
he would.

1367
01:32:36,480 --> 01:32:37,360
[hangs up]

1368
01:32:37,440 --> 01:32:40,120
I didn't want him to get away with this.

1369
01:32:43,480 --> 01:32:47,000
I wanted to talk to someone
who was in the article.

1370
01:32:47,080 --> 01:32:49,160
[tense music playing]

1371
01:32:51,400 --> 01:32:53,600
I found Pernilla on Instagram.

1372
01:32:55,320 --> 01:32:58,840
[Pernilla] So I get a message
from this Dutch girl, Ayleen,

1373
01:32:59,680 --> 01:33:02,280
saying that she's the girlfriend of Simon,

1374
01:33:02,360 --> 01:33:04,240
and she has seen the story

1375
01:33:04,320 --> 01:33:05,600
and says that it feels like

1376
01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:08,200
she is in the middle
of a horror movie right now.

1377
01:33:08,280 --> 01:33:10,280
[ringing]

1378
01:33:10,360 --> 01:33:11,200
[Ayleen] Hi.

1379
01:33:11,280 --> 01:33:13,960
[Pernilla] Ayleen says she's going
to help us catch him,

1380
01:33:14,480 --> 01:33:17,520
but there's something
she needs to do first.

1381
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:20,280
[chiming]

1382
01:33:20,360 --> 01:33:26,080
I needed to get my money back. But how?
I had to come up with a plan.

1383
01:33:29,080 --> 01:33:33,920
Suddenly I realized
I was in a quite powerful position.

1384
01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:42,800
He wasn't able
to get any women on Tinder anymore

1385
01:33:42,880 --> 01:33:45,920
because his face was all over Google.

1386
01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:48,240
So he was hiding in Prague

1387
01:33:48,320 --> 01:33:51,880
and he had absolutely nowhere else to go
besides me.

1388
01:33:53,640 --> 01:33:58,560
He always told me keep your friends close
and your enemies closer.

1389
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:00,640
[dramatic music playing]

1390
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:05,400
To make him believe
I was still on his side,

1391
01:34:05,480 --> 01:34:09,720
I told him I still love him,
that I believed everything he said.

1392
01:34:11,200 --> 01:34:13,560
I even called these girls bitches.

1393
01:34:15,160 --> 01:34:17,840
I'm texting Simon all the time,

1394
01:34:17,920 --> 01:34:20,440
saying, "Good morning, love. How are you?"

1395
01:34:20,520 --> 01:34:24,520
"Good night. Sleep well.
I love you. I miss you."

1396
01:34:25,400 --> 01:34:28,560
And he keeps on telling me,
and, of course, it's Simon,

1397
01:34:28,640 --> 01:34:32,560
that he needed money
to escape from his enemies.

1398
01:34:32,640 --> 01:34:34,720
He needed fake passports.

1399
01:34:36,520 --> 01:34:39,840
He wanted me to pawn my car.

1400
01:34:40,800 --> 01:34:43,160
He wanted me to sell my house.

1401
01:34:45,320 --> 01:34:50,680
That's when I got my idea. I was
going to swindle the Tinder Swindler.

1402
01:34:52,960 --> 01:34:56,880
Simon only wears designer clothes.
He's covered in it.

1403
01:34:56,960 --> 01:35:01,880
Versace, Gucci, Louis Vuitton,
Dolce & Gabbana.

1404
01:35:03,480 --> 01:35:06,760
I work in the luxury fashion industry,

1405
01:35:06,840 --> 01:35:10,840
so I know his wardrobe is worth a fortune.

1406
01:35:12,880 --> 01:35:15,440
I said to him,
"Please, let me sell those clothes for you

1407
01:35:15,520 --> 01:35:17,360
so we can generate some money."

1408
01:35:19,120 --> 01:35:22,640
Simon has all of these clothes with him.

1409
01:35:22,720 --> 01:35:24,240
I needed to go to Prague.

1410
01:35:26,000 --> 01:35:29,960
Before I leave Amsterdam,
Simon had a credit card delivered to me.

1411
01:35:30,760 --> 01:35:33,200
It says, "David Sharon."

1412
01:35:34,160 --> 01:35:37,760
I take a picture
and send it to the police,

1413
01:35:37,840 --> 01:35:42,160
telling them Simon is creating
a new identity.

1414
01:35:51,920 --> 01:35:54,480
His address was in the middle of nowhere.

1415
01:35:57,120 --> 01:36:00,400
As I'm getting closer,
my heart is pounding.

1416
01:36:02,400 --> 01:36:06,720
I thought, "Oh, my God, how can I come up
with such a stupid plan?

1417
01:36:06,800 --> 01:36:08,120
Because now I need to face him."

1418
01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:14,880
He's not my boyfriend.
He's not the son of Lev Leviev.

1419
01:36:14,960 --> 01:36:17,920
He's not working for LLD Diamonds.

1420
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:19,480
He is a fraud,

1421
01:36:19,560 --> 01:36:23,360
and I have absolutely no idea
what he's capable of.

1422
01:36:26,760 --> 01:36:29,280
He was already standing outside
waiting for me,

1423
01:36:29,360 --> 01:36:32,520
and he hugged me
and he kissed me on the lips,

1424
01:36:32,600 --> 01:36:35,840
and I felt disgusting.

1425
01:36:35,920 --> 01:36:38,400
I was so angry and I wanted to scream,

1426
01:36:38,480 --> 01:36:43,480
but the only thing I said was,
"I love you and I missed you."

1427
01:36:47,800 --> 01:36:50,760
He made an appointment
in the center of Prague,

1428
01:36:50,840 --> 01:36:53,080
and he wanted me to come along with him.

1429
01:36:53,600 --> 01:36:58,160
We stopped outside this head office
of a plastic surgeon.

1430
01:36:58,240 --> 01:37:01,360
I was like, "Oh, my God,
what are we going to do here?"

1431
01:37:04,080 --> 01:37:09,720
He wanted to change his cheekbones,
his nose, his lips, maybe his chin,

1432
01:37:10,480 --> 01:37:12,480
and the plastic surgeon says,

1433
01:37:12,560 --> 01:37:15,440
"I'm sorry,
but I'm not going to do this surgery

1434
01:37:15,520 --> 01:37:18,120
because only criminals want this."

1435
01:37:18,720 --> 01:37:21,120
I almost spit out my water

1436
01:37:21,200 --> 01:37:23,920
because I really wanted to say
to this surgeon,

1437
01:37:24,520 --> 01:37:26,240
"But he is a criminal."

1438
01:37:28,640 --> 01:37:34,720
As I'm watching this pathetic man crying
for not getting his plastic surgery,

1439
01:37:34,800 --> 01:37:35,640
I thought,

1440
01:37:36,760 --> 01:37:42,280
"If you weren't such… a piece of shit,
I would feel sorry for you."

1441
01:37:45,240 --> 01:37:48,600
In the afternoon,
we played boyfriend and girlfriend,

1442
01:37:48,680 --> 01:37:51,280
holding hands, having dinner together.

1443
01:37:52,960 --> 01:37:58,000
But then I needed
to still sleep next to him.

1444
01:38:02,120 --> 01:38:08,600
He didn't make any move, thank God,
but I was just in bed, frozen,

1445
01:38:09,440 --> 01:38:12,200
looking at the ceiling all night.

1446
01:38:18,040 --> 01:38:23,440
Morning finally comes,
I pack up three massive suitcases.

1447
01:38:28,440 --> 01:38:30,960
Simon didn't even help me with it.

1448
01:38:33,840 --> 01:38:38,160
Right before I was leaving,
he hands over this letter.

1449
01:38:38,960 --> 01:38:44,600
He said, "Please read it in the plane."
I cannot get out of there fast enough.

1450
01:38:44,680 --> 01:38:46,680
[opera music playing]

1451
01:38:52,200 --> 01:38:54,000
I remember that I had this letter.

1452
01:38:54,800 --> 01:38:55,720
I have it here.

1453
01:38:57,080 --> 01:39:02,040
"Dear Ayleen, well, as you know, this is
the most difficult time of my life,

1454
01:39:02,120 --> 01:39:06,000
and I want to thank you
that you are standing by my side

1455
01:39:06,080 --> 01:39:08,160
and that you don't give up on our love."

1456
01:39:09,440 --> 01:39:14,360
"You are the woman of my dreams,
and I want to build a future together."

1457
01:39:14,960 --> 01:39:17,720
"To marry you will be an honor for me."

1458
01:39:18,240 --> 01:39:23,000
"And to make a family with kids together,
you are the woman I see it with."

1459
01:39:24,280 --> 01:39:27,760
"You've got to help me
with everything you can."

1460
01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:32,720
"It's for you, for your parents,
for our future. I'm worth it."

1461
01:39:33,280 --> 01:39:36,200
"Now it's time
to do the impossible possible."

1462
01:39:37,120 --> 01:39:40,200
"I'm blessed to have a woman like you
in my life

1463
01:39:40,280 --> 01:39:43,240
to live in happy ever after."

1464
01:39:43,320 --> 01:39:45,760
"I love you like I never loved before."

1465
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:47,040
"I trust you."

1466
01:39:48,520 --> 01:39:49,480
"Don't give up."

1467
01:39:50,880 --> 01:39:53,760
"Love you forever, yours, Simon."

1468
01:39:55,360 --> 01:39:57,280
Just a piece of shit.

1469
01:39:57,360 --> 01:39:59,520
[upbeat music playing]

1470
01:40:05,840 --> 01:40:08,040
I'm on Operation Sell, Sell, Sell.

1471
01:40:13,440 --> 01:40:15,440
[ringing]

1472
01:40:18,760 --> 01:40:22,520
Simon is texting and calling me
all the time.

1473
01:40:24,240 --> 01:40:27,480
"What have you sold?
Where's my money? You need to be quick."

1474
01:40:29,080 --> 01:40:31,720
I keep on telling him
I haven't sold anything.

1475
01:40:31,800 --> 01:40:33,320
[mail alert chimes]

1476
01:40:37,080 --> 01:40:38,520
[chimes]

1477
01:40:38,600 --> 01:40:44,040
I was selling, selling, selling. I was
never going to send him the money.

1478
01:40:44,120 --> 01:40:46,200
[upbeat music continues]

1479
01:40:48,320 --> 01:40:49,240
[phone chimes]

1480
01:40:49,320 --> 01:40:55,280
I just got a notification that I got
an offer for one of Simon's items.

1481
01:40:55,360 --> 01:40:56,920
Speaking of the Devil.

1482
01:40:58,280 --> 01:41:00,840
[interviewer] So you're still
selling his things now?

1483
01:41:00,920 --> 01:41:02,800
Yes, I'm still selling his things.

1484
01:41:07,120 --> 01:41:11,240
Of course it wasn't in line
with everything that I gave him,

1485
01:41:12,400 --> 01:41:14,920
but it felt like a little bit of payback.

1486
01:41:15,760 --> 01:41:17,760
[dinging]

1487
01:41:23,280 --> 01:41:24,920
[Simon] We need the money on Monday.

1488
01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:27,760
Another day, another day.
Are you trying to buy time?

1489
01:41:28,280 --> 01:41:32,440
You're dragging it over three fucking
weeks. It doesn't take three weeks.

1490
01:41:34,720 --> 01:41:39,680
[Ayleen] After a few weeks, he knows
that I was keeping the money for myself.

1491
01:41:39,760 --> 01:41:42,440
That's when he turned around completely.

1492
01:41:44,720 --> 01:41:48,040
[Simon shouting] You stop playing game
with me now! Stop!

1493
01:41:49,040 --> 01:41:53,240
He bombs me with all these messages,
and they were so aggressive.

1494
01:41:54,320 --> 01:41:57,680
If you're active, listen to me!
You're gonna give it today.

1495
01:41:57,760 --> 01:41:59,760
You don't know
where the fuck you're going.

1496
01:41:59,840 --> 01:42:02,400
Voice memos of, like, 20 minutes.

1497
01:42:02,480 --> 01:42:04,480
[irately] I'm sorry about what I said,
but that's it.

1498
01:42:04,560 --> 01:42:06,440
But you're taking the piss out of me.

1499
01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:10,320
This is where I saw
his several personalities.

1500
01:42:10,400 --> 01:42:12,240
[irritably] I love you
and I care about you.

1501
01:42:12,320 --> 01:42:13,760
I ask a thousand fucking times.

1502
01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:16,040
I ask nicely. I'm speaking to you nicely.

1503
01:42:16,120 --> 01:42:18,760
I try to respect you,
but it's like you're fucking with me.

1504
01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:21,840
[penitently] You have no idea
how much I love you.

1505
01:42:21,920 --> 01:42:24,760
You just need to trust me one last time.

1506
01:42:25,360 --> 01:42:30,760
I need an answer tomorrow. Believe in me.
Have a leap of faith for one time. Do it.

1507
01:42:30,840 --> 01:42:33,160
[heatedly] Don't send me lies.
I know how to lie.

1508
01:42:33,240 --> 01:42:34,640
I can teach you how to lie.

1509
01:42:34,720 --> 01:42:36,960
I need this money to succeed.

1510
01:42:41,520 --> 01:42:44,880
Help me out here.
I don't have nobody else. I have only you.

1511
01:42:45,920 --> 01:42:47,360
I'm begging from you, please.

1512
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:52,240
[angrily] I give you advice. Choose it!

1513
01:42:52,320 --> 01:42:54,320
You disappear.
Nobody can see your messages.

1514
01:42:54,400 --> 01:42:56,440
I'm not your enemy. I'm not fighting you.

1515
01:42:56,520 --> 01:43:01,480
And you will get the worst fucking enemy
you have ever seen in your life

1516
01:43:01,560 --> 01:43:05,480
for you and for your fucking family
if you will ever play with me!

1517
01:43:05,560 --> 01:43:07,040
Give it today.

1518
01:43:07,120 --> 01:43:09,000
[chiming]

1519
01:43:12,280 --> 01:43:14,400
[penitently] Look, Ayleen,
I'm sorry about everything.

1520
01:43:14,480 --> 01:43:17,400
[angrily] I give you the last fucking
warning! Today. You want war?

1521
01:43:17,480 --> 01:43:20,760
You will get fucking war!
You will get fucking war!

1522
01:43:27,080 --> 01:43:29,080
[Ayleen] It was a horrible experience.

1523
01:43:31,120 --> 01:43:36,520
But part of me was actually enjoying
seeing him "swerm."

1524
01:43:36,600 --> 01:43:37,480
[interviewer chuckles]

1525
01:43:37,560 --> 01:43:39,280
Squirm. No. [laughing]

1526
01:43:43,040 --> 01:43:45,600
[Simon] Ayleen, can I ask you a favor?

1527
01:43:45,680 --> 01:43:49,480
Can you put me one lottery ticket
with numbers that I can choose?

1528
01:43:50,160 --> 01:43:54,000
How pathetic can you be?
I thought you were a billionaire.

1529
01:44:01,080 --> 01:44:05,080
He has no money coming in.
He had no one to go to.

1530
01:44:09,960 --> 01:44:12,920
He even sent me pictures and texts

1531
01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:16,600
that he was eating leftovers
in a shopping mall.

1532
01:44:18,400 --> 01:44:21,080
He grew himself, like, this big beard.

1533
01:44:21,160 --> 01:44:26,160
He was sleeping in hostels of $12 a night.

1534
01:44:35,160 --> 01:44:37,760
At this moment, I see the real Simon,

1535
01:44:37,840 --> 01:44:43,920
because without other people's money,
he was nobody, and he's nothing.

1536
01:44:53,440 --> 01:44:56,320
He even called himself
"the homeless king."

1537
01:44:57,480 --> 01:45:00,960
The prince of diamonds
to this homeless king.

1538
01:45:02,280 --> 01:45:04,120
[laughs] Cry me a river.

1539
01:45:11,480 --> 01:45:13,880
One morning, I get a text from him.

1540
01:45:22,080 --> 01:45:24,080
[melancholy music playing]

1541
01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:32,760
A few weeks before, he was just mentioning
he wanted to go to Greece.

1542
01:45:34,600 --> 01:45:38,720
When I text him back,
my message wasn't receiving.

1543
01:45:39,920 --> 01:45:42,160
I just saw one tick.

1544
01:45:43,280 --> 01:45:45,720
That's when I realized
that he was on a flight,

1545
01:45:45,800 --> 01:45:48,240
because Simon is always on his phone.

1546
01:45:52,840 --> 01:45:56,920
I'm searching for flights
from Prague to Athens.

1547
01:46:00,240 --> 01:46:05,480
I found a flight exactly the same time
as he went offline.

1548
01:46:08,640 --> 01:46:13,680
I took a screenshot of the details,
and I sent it directly to the police.

1549
01:46:15,800 --> 01:46:20,840
He wouldn't travel under Simon Leviev
because he was wanted for fraud.

1550
01:46:22,880 --> 01:46:28,360
I also make sure they had the name that
I saw on the credit card, David Sharon.

1551
01:46:33,240 --> 01:46:35,680
Now, it was in the hands of the police.

1552
01:46:58,400 --> 01:47:01,240
It was one of the best moments of my life.

1553
01:47:02,440 --> 01:47:04,240
He even says…

1554
01:47:09,480 --> 01:47:13,800
He got arrested by Interpol
on a fake passport,

1555
01:47:13,880 --> 01:47:15,600
under the name David Sharon.

1556
01:47:16,800 --> 01:47:17,760
Yeah.

1557
01:47:18,840 --> 01:47:20,840
[ringing]

1558
01:47:21,760 --> 01:47:24,200
Ayleen tells me, "We got him!"

1559
01:47:25,160 --> 01:47:27,360
I just wanted to call Cecilie.

1560
01:47:28,320 --> 01:47:32,960
I was like, "Are you fucking kidding me?
He's really caught? Now? Today?"

1561
01:47:37,760 --> 01:47:40,960
I can't even describe the joy it is.

1562
01:47:41,040 --> 01:47:43,920
This is what I wanted.
I wanted to see him in handcuffs.

1563
01:47:44,440 --> 01:47:46,720
I needed justice for myself.

1564
01:47:47,720 --> 01:47:50,320
[interviewer] Does he know
you gave that information to the police?

1565
01:47:50,400 --> 01:47:54,120
No. He never believed
that I was capable of doing this.

1566
01:47:55,360 --> 01:47:57,200
He knows now. [laughs]

1567
01:47:59,320 --> 01:48:00,520
Hi, Simon.

1568
01:48:01,600 --> 01:48:04,360
[Pernilla] Everything that we did
did have an effect.

1569
01:48:04,440 --> 01:48:06,640
We helped at least one person,

1570
01:48:06,720 --> 01:48:08,720
and we did get him arrested.

1571
01:48:08,800 --> 01:48:12,920
Maybe not for everything that we wanted,
but he did get arrested.

1572
01:48:13,000 --> 01:48:15,720
So our action had a reaction.

1573
01:48:25,240 --> 01:48:27,240
[somber music playing]

1574
01:49:28,080 --> 01:49:34,120
[Simon] Just got my new iPhone 12 Pro.
Just received the new shoes. Perfect.

1575
01:49:36,200 --> 01:49:38,560
[Simon speaking indistinctly]

1576
01:49:43,000 --> 01:49:46,480
This is the real deal.
The Bentley or the Ferrari.

1577
01:49:47,000 --> 01:49:48,320
[lock chirps]

1578
01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:08,680
[speaking indistinctly]

1579
01:50:17,240 --> 01:50:20,360
I wish you
a great and magnificent evening.

1580
01:50:26,080 --> 01:50:28,080
[exclaiming]

1581
01:50:36,080 --> 01:50:37,480
[chimes]

1582
01:50:39,880 --> 01:50:42,400
[Simon] I will proceed
with the lawsuit against you

1583
01:50:42,480 --> 01:50:44,240
for defam-in-ation and lies

1584
01:50:44,320 --> 01:50:47,560
and, you know, that everything is based,
basically, on a lie.

1585
01:50:47,640 --> 01:50:50,080
And that's it, this is how it's gonna be.

1586
01:50:55,360 --> 01:50:57,120
[interviewer] Have you been
on Tinder since?

1587
01:50:57,200 --> 01:51:00,000
Yes. Oh, tons. Yeah, I know.

1588
01:51:00,080 --> 01:51:02,680
Everyone is asking me.
Tinder has nothing to do with this.

1589
01:51:02,760 --> 01:51:04,400
I was on Tinder immediately.

1590
01:51:04,480 --> 01:51:07,800
-You're still looking for love?
-I'm still looking for love. So…

1591
01:51:08,320 --> 01:51:10,040
Always. [chuckles]

1592
01:51:11,760 --> 01:51:13,760
[melancholy music playing]

1593
01:51:39,000 --> 01:51:41,000
[uplifting music playing]