The star of a Netflix true-crime documentary is facing a lawsuit from the family whose name he allegedly adopted.

Simon Leviev (Born Shimon Hayut) is currently being sued in a Tel Aviv court by Russian-Israeli diamond tycoon Lev Leviev and his family.

According to court documents seen by People magazine, the family are claiming: "for a long time, Simon Leviev has been making false representations as being the son of Lev Leviev and receiving numerous benefits (including material ones)."

The family accused Leviev of "cunningly using false words, claiming to be a member of the Leviev Family, and that his family will pay and bear the costs of his benefits."

A lawyer acting for the Leviev family told People: "This legal action is only the beginning of a number of lawsuits that my firm is currently working on.

"In the next phase we will file a monetary suit against Hayut and any other affiliate that will work with him, including some websites that have Joint ventures with Hayut and/or have offered to buy cameos from him. Anyone that will try to capitalize from this scheme will be sued."

The hit Netflix documentary alleges that Israeli would take women on extravagant dates before asking them for larger and larger sums of money.

He then used the money to take other women on further dates, forming a romantic ponzi scheme that allegedly enabled him to steal as much as $10 million from the women he met on Tinder.

The Israeli was eventually arrested in Greece in 2019 for using forged documents and spent five months in prison in Israel. He's also threatened to sue Netflix for defamation, telling them that "everything is based on a lie."