15 minutes and millions of dollars: The crooks who overthrew celebs
"The Tinder Rogue" is not the first crook to become a famous man and he joins a long line of charlatans who have managed to steal, lie and cheat, sometimes even the richest and most famous.
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Jenny Danson
18/02/2022
Friday, 18 February 2022, 00:50
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Shimon Hayut (Photo: screenshot, official Instagram Simon Leviev)
In recent weeks, everyone has been talking about
Simon Leviev
/
Shimon Hayut
, who deceived women he knew on Tinder and stole huge sums from them.
Our acquaintance with the slick charlatan began over a year ago, but Netflix did to him what
Prince Harry
did to
Megan Merkel
: make the private jet lover a man talked about all over the world.
Animals did not invent the method and many people who were born into a small, gray existence decided to create for themselves a life wrapped in gold in every way possible.
Scammers have been with us ever since, it's simple that until now they have not received Netflix-sized advertising.
If you too like to look at the downfalls of these despicable people, get some more examples of those who managed to deceive, even celebs, and live in luxury while others went bankrupt.
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From Russia in Love: Anna Sorokin
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This is also a woman who started as a newspaper article and rose to mega-celebrity status thanks to Netflix.
Anna Sorokin
is an immigrant from Russia who grew up in Germany and came to New York with the name Anna Delby.
Surprisingly, she was able to work on two exclusive New York circles: the fashion world, which received the “heiress” in love with places in the front rows of all fashion shows and connection with designers and key people.
The New York financial elite also adopted Anna into her lap and she received huge loans that financed a lifestyle that included flights around the world, clothes and accessories worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and scattering tips amounting to thousands of dollars a day to service providers.
Needless to say, she did not repay the loans she took out, forged checks and bank documents and lied
while taking a sip of Dom Perignon.
She was sentenced to four years in prison, but ran for only two years and was deported from the United States.
Horror movie: Zachary Horowitz
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Zachary Horowitz
, who chose the stage name Zack Avery, is a relatively anonymous actor who has starred in films like "Rage" and several horror films that did not exactly break the box office.
He was behind "the biggest Ponzi scheme in Hollywood" and a few days ago was sentenced to 20 years in prison, an appropriate punishment for someone who stole $ 650 million.
How did he do it?
Horowitz promised investors to buy and sell rights to movies and series to giants like Netflix and HBO.
Did he actually buy or sell those rights?
No.
He mainly used the money to fly private jets, make $ 6.9 million in credit transactions and spend a little over $ 600,000 on luxury cars.
The actor and his family lived on a $ 5.7 million luxury estate in Beverly Hills, a sum that failed horror films do not usually put in.
I'm Steve Jobs's daughter: Elizabeth Holmes
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This is a woman who perfected the deception to a real art degree: she spoke in a low voice, the black golf shirt became her trademark and with a lot of charisma and confidence, Elizabeth Holmes won over one of the great scams of recent years.
Holmes, who in her heyday earned the nickname "Steve Jobs of the biotech," starred on countless magazine covers and even won the title of "the youngest billionaire woman to make a fortune in her own right."
She headed the Thernos company, which boasted a technological capability to perform 200 different blood tests from a single drop of blood.
Holmes raised $ 700 million and at its peak, the company was valued at a fictional amount of $ 9 billion, with investors like
George Schultz
and
Henry Kissinger
.
In practice it turned out that the tests Holmes sold were sent to other companies in order to get the results.
It ended with the authorization in 11 fraud clauses and she is currently awaiting sentencing,
Inventor of the method: Charles Ponzi
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We are all familiar with the phrase "Ponzi scheme", but behind those words is a man named Charles who will forever be known as one of the greatest crooks in history.
Ponzi used a simple method: to guarantee people to invest their money in exchange for a huge interest rate that he would "earn" for them.
He paid the same interest repayments to old investors from the money he received from new investors - using the pyramid scheme.
In 1920 it deceived about 40,000 people and grossed about $ 15 million, which is worth almost $ 211 million in modern money.
Whoever used the same method in the 1990s is Bernie Madoff, who is considered a nobility in New York's financial world, and was eventually found to have committed one of the biggest economic crimes in the creation countries, with $ 68 billion in fraud.
His sentence stood at 150 years in prison, but he died last year.
The Israeli connection: Niv Borsok
Indictment against Niv Borsok suspected of celeb fraud, August 2013 (Photo: Yotam Ronen)
It seems that even in the State of Israel, where people like to say that "we are not suckers," there is room for big and shiny scams.
In 2013,
Niv Borsok
was sentenced to ten months in prison and fined following the "sting of the celebs."
He too, just like the other crooks, lived a dazzling luxury life, drove luxury cars and spent large sums.
The lifestyle with the addition of personal charm caused many people from the entertainment industry, including
Zion Baruch
and according to the publications,
Ron Kaufman
to lend him sums that reached millions of shekels.
After accumulating huge debts he fled to the Philippines, but was extradited back to Israel and prosecuted.
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