Seriously, the audacity of this guy! Promising to pay back thousands, even *millions* of dollars, with a dodgy check and a fake Rolex? I mean, come on! It’s almost insulting, even on top of the already HUGE betrayal.
You gotta wonder, where did he even *get* these things? Did he have some like, underground network of counterfeit watch dealers? Was he buying them off some dude in a back alley? I can picture it now, him haggling over the price of a fake Patek Philippe, trying to shave off a few bucks while simultaneously pretending he’s about to wire transfer millions. It’s just… insane.
And you know, it kinda goes to show you the lengths people will go to for appearances. Like, a real billionaire wouldn’t be sweating over a few grand for a watch, right? They’d just buy the real thing and not even blink. But Leviev, he needed to *appear* rich, so he cut corners. And those corners were, you know, straight-up fraud.
Honestly, the fake watch thing is almost funnier than the whole diamond heir story. I mean, come on! Everyone knows a real watch snob can spot a fake from a mile away. Did he really think these women wouldn’t notice? Maybe he was counting on them being blinded by “love” (or, you know, the promise of a lavish lifestyle).
But like, back to the watches, it just highlights the kinda pathetic nature of the whole scam. He was building this empire of lies on…well, cheap imitations. I dunno, it just kinda adds a layer of, I don’t know… shoddiness? To the whole thing.
And you know what *really* bugs me? How easily people fall for this stuff. I mean, I get it, love makes you do crazy things, but you’d think someone would’ve, at some point, thought to, like, Google “Simon Leviev real diamonds” or something. Maybe check the serial number on that supposedly super-rare watch.
