Tinder Swindler Simon Leviev insists he was stitched up by show as he makes 1st public appearance with model girlfriend

TINDER Swindler Simon Leviev has made a first public appearance with his model girlfriend — as they insisted he had been stitched up.

The conman kissed Kate Konlin, 24, and spoke out for the first time since a hit Netflix documentary about his crimes was released.

They both claimed the programme was a tissue of lies.

Kolin, who once appeared on the cover of Vogue in Japan, said she did not believe the women who had accused the 31-year-old.

She said he had never asked to borrow her money.

“My God, it is, like, how someone can build such a fake story,” she added.

Leviev, whose real name is Shimon Heyada Hayut, lured his victims on Tinder, posing as the son of a gem tycoon.

He was arrested in 2019 and jailed for 15 months for conning women out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

'The biggest gentleman in the world'

The Netflix documentary, seen 50million times, was meant to give a voice to his victims — shattered by his return to the high life after serving just five months.

Ukraine-born Konlin, linked to him since July, has previously spoken out in his defence, insisting he was a successful property dealer.

In the latest interview on Inside Edition in the US, Hayut said: “I’m the biggest gentleman in the world. I am not this monster that everybody has created. I was just a single guy that wanted to meet some girls on Tinder.

“They weren’t conned and they weren’t threatened. I’m a legit businessman. I got into Bitcoin in 2011. It was nothing. I don’t need to say how much it is worth now.”

He added: “I feel bad for something that I didn’t do? No, I feel bad for whatever happened to myself. I want to clear my name. I want to say to the world, ‘This is not true’.

“I am not a fraud and I’m not a fake. People don’t know me, so they cannot judge me.”