UPDATE: NEW INFORMATION IS COMING TO LIGHT AND THIS ARTICLE, PARTICULARLY WHEN IT COMES TO MOTIVATING FACTORS, MAY NOT ACCURATELY DESCRIBE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YANIV AND LEIGH. THE SCREENSHOTS OF YANIV ARE STILL VALUABLE, AND THEY STILL SHOW WHO HE IS, BUT INFORMATION PRESENTED TO MEOWMIX BEFORE THIS WAS PUBLISHED DOESN’T MATCH WHAT CAME OUT AFTERWARDS. I WILL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFO LATER. MY APOLOGIES, FRIENDS.
Update 2: I’ll admit it – I was misled and I fell for it. The text below (in italics) was what Leigh sent to us – copy pasted directly from the email – describing her motives. After some backlash and concern from MeowMix followers and others about Leigh’s behaviour enabling Yaniv, Leigh announced to Twitter some very different details than what we were presented with.
First, Leigh has stated I can delete this article but I will not. There are still interesting details from Yaniv here, but, more importantly, burying the article would look suspicious. Instead,
Before I go any further, these are Leigh’s tweets, posted publicly.
The inconsistencies between what is said above and what was told to us originally are staggering. She told us in email – and in DM’s to me on Twitter – that her goal was only to befriend and help him. As you can see from her tweets, that story changed. Suddenly she was working as a trained decoy with FBI contacts and she’s made sure Yaniv is on a watch list.
She went on to add that people from MeowMix attacked her for it. I suspect some of our followers commented negatively about her, but nobody attacked her, and certainly not from MeowMix. When I confronted her on this she immediately backpedaled.
Now, call me insensitive, but when we’re playing with lies and accusations you don’t get compassion. Leigh pulled out the very Yaniv-esque medical card. Despite nobody asking, she ranted about various medical conditions, likely in an attempt to misdirect anger and garner sympathy.
To that I say hell no. You misled me, you misled our group, you told me you provided us with 100% of the screenshots and then later said you didn’t, you accused us personally of attacking you, and you hurt my credibility and that of the others that work on this site. And for what reason?
I’ll leave it at that. I have not edited the article below, but take the entire thing with a grain of salt.
And to those who say I’m being harsh – there is a large team of people that worked hard on this site. We’ve worked hard to be taken seriously and become a credible source of info about Yaniv. If we’ve been wrong, we’ll say so. And if you’ve intentionally misled us, I’m going to call you out for it. A liar is a liar is a liar is a liar.
Original Article Below
In what started as a genuine attempt to get to know Jessica Yaniv Simpson, and a sincere effort to understand what makes him tick, Leigh reached out to him in early 2020 to offer friendship. She wasn’t contacting him to support his ways or encourage his habits, but to open a door for conversation. Yaniv ignored her for the most part, but eventually opened up. When things went south, Yaniv pulled his usual stunt – he threatened her.
Leigh’s submission to MeowMix included the following statement:
Just to be clear, I reached out to JJYS to befriend them. To see what made them tick. I reached out because I am a mother of an autistic, developmentally delayed child and I saw so many of those qualities in JJYS. I have many transgendered friends and being an actual woman, I thought I could help JJYS in their transition by being a friend and giving them first-hand knowledge of what being a woman is all about. I saw a vulnerability there. I wanted to help. I wanted to be a compassionate friend. The COVID pandemic had just started and I was looking to take on a project during lockdown. JJYS’ behavior just kept deteriorating. Everything I have to share is nothing new. JJYS their self has put most if not all of this out there on the internet themselves. The threat that JJYS DM’d to me, about destroying my life bit by bit, if I released anything, has me intrigued. Maybe they have divulged a juicy secret to someone but they don’t recall who it was and thus they are living in fear of some soul spilling the beans.
I tried being a friend to JJYS. I really tried. But not once did they ask me anything about myself. Not once did they seem interested in anything but talking about their world, their life, their troubles. And their worries. They blocked me on FB first. Then when JJYS sent me a DM on Twitter to help them retweet and gang up on Billboard Chris, and I didn’t do it for 2 reasons, the first being that I was inpatient at my local hospital for heart attack symptoms, and the second because I happen to like Chris and believe in what he is doing. I was blocked on Twitter earlier this week. I am still followed by Miriam and Yadira.
None of these screenshots of actual conversations are edited it any way. They are simply screenshot from my phone and forwarded on here. Enjoy.
(For the record, I no longer wish to be JJYS’ friend. Honestly, everything about them now makes me physically ill.)
Going into this story, and seeing the screenshots, I honestly applaud Leigh at the same time as I worry for the safety of others like her. The world needs more kind people like her, and Yaniv would have benefited from having a real friend. On the other hand, I worry that there people out there who don’t know that Yaniv is a pedophile and a woman-hater, and they see Yaniv for what he wants to be seen as – a victim. I worry these people will see the illusion and get hurt.
Moving along…
Most of Leigh’s messages were met with Yaniv’s autoreply, claiming he can help people with a tech purchase. Eventually, he responded with his usual whining and attention seeking. He claimed to be a victim, and said the bullying was making him “extremely ill”. Leigh responded several times over the next few days with kindness and reassurance.
Leigh also reached out to Yaniv on Instagram. Yaniv responded by saying, “Sorry I didn’t see your request come in I get hundreds a day”. Sure you do Jonny.
He went on to whine about breathing issues and immense pain, saying people use him all the time, and he has a herniated disc. He whined about his “really bad injury” when his fat ass broke the physio table he sat on. His whining went on to include remarks about severe spinal pain and being on tons of medication.
The conversations continued, ranging from discussions about age of consent and Yaniv whining about bomb threats. He claims he police don’t help him. Could that be because they know he’s full of shit? Leigh messaged him several times over the next few months and he ignored her entirely.
Despite that, on Nov 5, Yaniv asked Leigh and several others who have contacted us to support him, saying (and he copy pasted this text to several girls), “Babe retweet everything I just posted please”. This was the tweet Yaniv wanted shared:
So much desperation wrapped up in two little tweets. First of all, acting as if he wasn’t drunkenly stomping around outside the GRS Montreal clinic just months ago. Second, trying to stick up for Nicola Spurling, a trans woman that has directly disavowed Yaniv. Of course, there’s Yaniv’s direct target, Chris Elston, whom Yaniv is desperate to destroy.
SIDEBAR: Anyone remember Jessica? No, not the pedo. The other Jessica. The one that Yaniv catfished. She spoke up on MeowMix some time ago. Turns out Yaniv tried to get his revenge after she spoke up. Yaniv phoned her employer and made up some stories, told them some lies, and tried to get her fired. Fortunately, her job is safe, and her Instagram feed is full of pictures of her surrounded with great friends, smiles, and love. Yaniv, in the meantime, accomplished nothing, and never will.
Eventually, Leigh gave up the attempt to figure him out, which of course made Yaniv super happy. He messaged her for the first time since the “babe retweet” message on Dec 14, 2020 and said, “You release anything I will come after you and fucking destroy you bit by fucking bit. I knew you were a fucking dirty snake. Fucking ugly one too”.
Leigh’s screenshots are below.
Reality Check Time: Jonathan, you can’t hurt anyone. You can’t scare anyone anymore. Your insults are empty. You’re powerless to affect people now. You’re just a filthy little insect who’s time is running out. You’re going to get swatted, one way or another.
Oh, and that’s not a threat, you vapid calorie collector. It’s a figure of speech. Don’t get your moms panties in a bunch.
Speaking of Miriam…anyone seen that crazy old woman lately? I’ve been wondering where she is. I suspect she’s in her condo, dodging COVID and sharing kiddie porn with Jon. We’ll have to do some looking.
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I’m disabled. So no boss or job to call and threaten. I just celebrated 6 years married to my best friend and we’ve been together 7 years next month. Husband knows all about Yaniv and can’t stand him. (Yes, he calls Yaniv “him”.) I only have FB and Twitter. And my Twitter is older than Yaniv’s. I’m in America. And I actually do have friends that are FBI agents. As an American, I have the ability and right to own weapons. Legally.
Throughout all this, I’ve learned that JJYS is truly nothing more, personality-wise, than a narcissistic, woman-hating, shallow pothole full of piss.
Thanks for reading and listening to my experience with JJYS.
On behalf of your child, Leigh, I want to urge you – strongly urge you – to talk to a psychologist who specializes in treating survivors of sexual abuse.
Survivors’ wanting to make friends with abusers and even to serve as their enablers as you actually were doing with Yaniv is not all that rare, but is not at all healthy and puts survivors’ *own children* at considerable risk.
You need to give more protection than you got. Please take the first step toward finding a counselor today for the sake of your child.
Telling a man that you have gotten him advice from the FBI on how to continue perving is not what a mentally healthy woman does.
Vozzle, I contacted JJYS at the beginning on the year. Before some of the damming info came to light. Laws differ depending on where offenders reside. I have had help with my issues of sexual assault. My “child” is happy and healthy and in no danger, as they are now an adult. I embarked on making friends with JJYS with my eyes wide open. I knew who JJYS was and what they were capable of. My ultimate goal was to befriend them to get inside information in the hopes that JJYS would reveal information that I could then use to help out their victims. Not absolutely everything that was shared between us made it into the screenshots that were shown. I talked to some of JJYS’ victims whose names and info were shared with me. My goal in getting close to JJYS was to reach out to current and possible future victims to help them. I played up the sympathy and flattery to JJYS because I have experience with narcissistic personalities and know what works best is to play to their vanity. Any info pertaining to victims or info that was legally damming was shared with the appropriate authorities. A file was compiled with the FBI concerning Raygen due to Raygen’s age, location, JJYS’ age and location, and the circumstances involving their interactions. Yaniv is now on a watchlist with the American authorities. Any future contact that Yaniv has with ANY American youth, is now being monitored.
Also, my actual legal name, including first and last, as well as my location, and contact information, was “created” for the express purpose of interacting with JJYS and other predators. They have no way of actually finding me in the real world. Hopefully this info puts your mind at ease.
Leigh, I *am* genuinely relieved to know that the autistic, developmentally delayed child you told MM about is an adult and that you have sought help already in recovering from sexual assault. I do wish you and your grown child well.
I will now state the obvious to the regulars here who will say Obvious Voz is obvious.
1 – Yaniv appeared as a blip on the FBI’s screen well before Raygen went a’catfishin. It occurred when the RCMP asked the FBI to take a statement from a young woman in Washington state who had been badgered sexually by Yaniv starting when she was only 14, with him even proposing that he fly her to Canada in 2014 to be his date at his 10-year secondary school reunion.
2 – We need to read Leigh’s comments in a careful way. She comes off perhaps undeservedly as what some cops call a “woofer,” meaning she seems to imply in low tones that she has high involvement in important law enforcement matters.
She for instance writes, “A file was compiled with the FBI concerning Raygen.” She might lose the woofing tone by writing, “I sent information to the FBI concerning Raygen.” She writes she has “contacts at the FBI,” and might de-woof it as, “I like contacting the FBI about my concerns. Sometimes I hear something back.”
Her bigger woofs cannot be translated into honestspeak, however. For example, she writes, “Any future contact that Yaniv has with ANY American youth, is now being monitored.”
No, Leigh, the FBI cannot monitor communications that way.
If Leigh understood law enforcement procedure after what she says is her 15 years of experience, she would know that monitoring Yaniv’s communications would have to be done in the jurisdiction of origination where a single source can be monitored after law enforcement demonstrates a legitimate need to do so.
In Leigh’s tv-style scenario, the FBI would be seeking court approval to monitor the communications of many millions of Americans hoping to spot one sleazy-enough bit from Yaniv sent to someone who turns out to be magically identifiable as too young to be sent it. That’s not happening.
And while the U.S. Department of Defense’s NSA is sweeping up Canadians’ electronic communications, it does not devote resources to scouring the bazillions of messages it nets hour by hour for sleazy men’s drivel, so the FBI is not receiving intercepts of Yaniv’s message traffic to review.
3 – The FBI would not involve a civilian like Leigh as an operative in any investigation because it would interfere with their making a prosecutable case. Nor would the FBI provide someone trying to serve as an informant with case details, as Leigh seems to woof in comments here regarding Raygen. In fact, that Leigh would point to Raygen that way demonstrates *why* the FBI doesn’t flow information back to casual informants about others.
4 – Leigh claims first when excusing her approach that she “contacted JJYS at the beginning on the year. Before some of the damming info came to light.” Then she writes, “I knew who JJYS was and what they were capable of when I started talking to them.”
Slight conflict between those two statements, eh? And the damning information about Yaniv was on the table in 2019, so the only way Leigh would not have known it at the beginning of her adventure was if she hadn’t done her homework.
In sum, while I wish Leigh well, I can’t escape the feeling she wants to play us for fools.
Wait first I see you are in palliative care now I see your married and have a child that Jessica threatens umm you are all over the place but we’ll haven’t finished reading this all wow it sure is alot to catch up on…
I retract my previous statement. In it’s place I now offer a heartfelt scowl.
I’m sorry Leigh but I’m not buying what you’re selling. You stated elsewhere that you contacted JYS as a kind of experiment and were well versed in the history behind them. You were bored and wanted to troll. Just be authentic about it, don’t pretend now to have approached JYS as a genuine friend. Both stories can’t be entirely honest. Own it.
All you’ve done is put h** on high alert for future infiltrations that might have yielded a much greater wealth of info. Just saying.
I hope your health gets better and you have many more years of happiness ahead of you with your partner
The email threatening JY saying ‘I’ll slit your throat etc’. The wording and syntax sounds exactly like he wrote it to himself. I would bet anything that he wrote that.
Hey Jon, you looked in the mirror lately? You are the meaning of the word ugly. And Miriam is a close second!
Barf!!!
Jon is such a piece of trash
Some of these texts really come off as enabling him to prey on teens sexually just because its technically legal in some cases. IDK, hope I’m not missing something.
People are missing something just cause someone is 16 and legal doesn’t mean it’s legal for someone twice their age to date them. Usually it means its okay for someone on their age range of a couple years higher and one year lower to date. Of course this isn’t everywhere but in some places.
JJYS had already contacted Raygen and Raygen was trying to “catfish” Yaniv. I spoke to Raygen as well as other victims. That’s why the FBI and other authorities have been made aware of JJYS. I have over 15 years experience working with child advocacy groups doing “decoy work” online. That’s why I have contacts with FBI and police. The more that JJYS believed I was “on their side,” the more information JJYS was going to release. Again, I knew who and what Yaniv was capable of when I started talking to them. Authorities where Yaniv lives seem unable or unwilling for whatever reasons of actually catching and prosecuting them for offences against minors. I currently am aware of AT LEAST one decoy that is currently engaging in conversations with JJYS through Snapchat/Tik Tok and other currently “teen popular” platforms. My intentions when contacting Yaniv weren’t to play a love interest, or anything, but to try to become a friend that they could trust, get close to, and confide in. Things that were said in text conversation with JJYS are not “normal” things I would actually say to someone I had a real friendship with.
I have told the “Decoy” about this site and have asked them to spread the word about MeowMix to any other “Decoy Actors” that they know in the hopes that one day they will also have the opportunity to share their interactions with Yaniv.
Also, Yaniv-Simpson, if you are reading this, you should know that AT LEAST ONE person that you are talking to, currently, has ulterior motives. It may be more than one. It could be FIVE! Just know that you can’t keep doing what you are doing and not expect to be exposed or caught. Just my parting words of “friendly advice!”
Your stories and claims just keep on a-changing. How can anyone believe what you have to say and take it seriously? What version of your story are we on now? 4? 5?
You have NO business contacting survivors, creating your own lame undercover ops, or pretending you have these connections.
Do you mean to tell us that even with all your “FBI contacts”, that they were accepting of you going out of you way to try and catch Yaniv yourself like some kind of vigilante? No. No they didn’t.
Then you go and put a bug in JYS’s ear that “you know” decoys are working against them currently. Whether this is true or another one of your MANY lies, now you have helped protect a pedo and put his guard up, delaying any investigation further. Are you really that dense? Don’t you want h** to get caught like the rest of us do? Aren’t you supposed to be a survivor yourself whom should want other victimizers put away??
YOU*JUST*HELPED*A**PEDO* You just hurt an avenue of legit investigation, even more crucial during covid. WTF are you thinking?
Your conduct is SHAMEFUL Leigh. You are clearly a compulsive liar with a false sense of grandeur. You’re not a hero, you’re a bored housewife whom should find something better to do with her time
Sure Jan
I appreciate reaching out to try to create change from a point of kindness but there is trying to understand someone and then there is defending predatory actions. Someone in the FBI wouldn’t have given that advice btw, if they did I would think they weren’t given the actual story. This is dangerous behavior because someone like John who seems to have a personality disorder will continually ignore anyone that disagrees with him, but anytime someone backs him up it will stick in his head as a constant reminder and validation. I’m interested to see the clarity of intentions mentioned in the foreword.
Also we can all clearly tell John’s copy/paste bomb threat was a lie. It starts out by calling him “c*nt.” No one thinks of him as female so no one would use such a term, but that is the type of language John likes to use…
I’m glad you are calling her out for using her medical conditions as a shield. That was my impression too. While I’m sure its hard to deal with, it doesn’t excuse her poor actions and lack of honesty. Her stories don’t match up and don’t pass the sniff test
What a mess.
There’s probably what, five or 10 people who have admin or writer access to MM, so if she didn’t KNOW it was one of those people, she should have taken those concerns to whomever at MM she was in contact with instead of blasting a general accusation over Twitter.
OTOH, she doesn’t need to be a perfect victim, and in fact it would have been a better story line had she shared for publication that she’s actually a disabled middle-age woman whose motives were to expose JJYS to law enforcement. I have no idea why she didn’t just say this for publication for the outset or how it would have distracted from the screenshots and anecdotes that resulted.
Thank you for the update, MM.
The New York Times has just undergone something similar, investigating itself and even publicly returning a prestigious award for its “Caliphate” podcast, which had given a mouthpiece to a dishonest source.
It was the work of the RCMP that exposed the source, a supposed former ISIS member, as a fraud.
This smelled fishy when it 1st came out, even the mix was suspicious, “unverified” they said
And today the mix is eating crow, But hey you have merch to sell, a fundraiser that needs donations, you need to stay current.
Even this, bullshit story, jonny, retraction of bullshit story.
A nice way to a start a new thread with the interactions & games a leigh, gotta stay current.
Brutal? I’ve donated to the mix in the past to help cover fees for legal docs.
Donate to a “fundraiser? that the mix gets their cut of 1st?
What exactly are the mix’s $250 in costs?
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Sad
Blah blah fucking blah.
I have donated to the Mix. I have bought merchandise. I have donated to the Amanda Todd Legacy fundraiser. Why? Because I believe in what the meowers are doing AND I trust them as have those victims & families of Jonathan Jessica Yaniv Simpson’s that have come forward. MeowMix may be gazing into the abyss and they know that the abyss is gazing back at them hoping for a mistake that can shut them down which is why they are so stringent about what they publish. I suspect you already know that site gets charged a few hundred every now & then by the host company. $250 doesn’t go far these days in running a public service/child safety site.
I suspect that there have been many, many other stories that have been sent to MeowMix but were rejected because they did not pass the smell test. Meow Mix seems to have a rigorous procedure for verifying claims such as using screen shots, meta data, etc. This story did initially pass. But now that questions & motives are being raised, I hear that MeowMix rather than just ignoring the doubts & covering up the questions, launched an investigation so that this will never happen again. They are taking action. For that I salute them.
Merry xmas not in jail
@meowmix “Blah blah fucking blah.” is that the best you’ve got? Rather childish don’t you think? Just add the word pussy & it could have been from JY.
I expressed an opinion (no free speech now?)
& a question, what exactly are your costs? Am I to take it that your costs on the fundraiser are $250? All taken off the top.
I would like to ask one more question, and hope you’ll reply with an adult answer & not childish insults
Go Fund Me only charges 5% & you’re charging 25% off the top even if the goal isn’t reached.
You easily could have started a GFM for Amanda, you would have no charges other than posting links to the GFM & Amanda would have received a bigger cut of the donations…More money for Amanda & less / none for the mix? 50% on the 1st $500, $250.00 for the mix $250 for Amanda
If it was a GFM Amanda would receive $489 & not the petty $250 from the mixes fundraiser.
Looks like a grift to me, yet you have the nerve to throw childish insults at me.
So how about an adult answer as to how you can justify this?
GoFundMe Charity is proud to offer organizations the choice between two different pricing structures.
1. Free: there is a 0% platform fee and only an industry-standard payment processing fee of 1.9% + $0.30 per donation. Donors have the option to tip GoFundMe Charity to support our business. If a charity receives a donation of $100, they will net $97.80.
https://charitysupport.gofundme.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035220752-Pricing-fees-
I doubt you’ll approve this post, and I don’t really give a fuck. In fact, your fundraiser may be illegal, 25%? maybe you should investigate that?
Blah Blah Scammer Blah
I’m outta here
Thanks for leaving. I was about to suggest you do that but WordPress’s “Horse’s Ass Jokes” feature kept putting unwanted verbiage in my draft post.
You crack me up.
The 25% isn’t “overhead” for the fundraiser. As stated in the initial post announcing the campaign, it was a dual-purpose fundraiser. Help MM raise $250 to cover our server fees, site expenses for the next year, and help raise money for a good cause. The first $500 was split 50/50, and anything above that to ATLS. At no point was the $250 declared to be “fundraiser expenses”.
All that to say your entire premise for attacking us is wrong. This isn’t a situation like Red Cross where people donate X dollars for hurricane relief an are disappointed to learn that only a part of that actually goes to the cause. This was an explicitly-stated dual-purpose crowdfunding effort. We specifically asked people to help MM raise money for MM, and MM raise money for ATLS. This was never a pure “let’s raise money for ATLS” effort.
To be clear, the Nov 19 post announcing this campaign is entitled “The Amanda Todd Legacy Society & MeowMix.org Campaign”. The “Campaign Goals” section of the article states, “MeowMix is supporting the Amanda Todd Legacy Society to raise money to support both causes. Since 2012, the ATLS has raised funds to promote awareness of the real world impacts of cyberbullying, sexual exploitation, and mental health. Donations support these initiatives.
MeowMix is run by a small group of friends online, spread across multiple countries and platforms. Keeping the website operating – and safe from Yaniv’s efforts to hide his secrets – costs money. We’ve been able to keep our costs low, but we ask for your support.”
So, to sum up, we’ve been up front about this the entire time, but I’ll repeat it: We were OPENLY raising money for MeowMix as well as ATLS. Straight from Day 1. If you don’t like it, don’t donate.
There’s your answer.
I haven’t read this all but one of the first things I notice is she says she’s been bedridden and in hospice for a bad heart so what is she talking about her kid being taken away for abuse? How I’m the hell is she even looking after a kid if she is in hospital? Who is watching the kid? How old is the kid? Idle she’s been a decoy on the past and all that why would she even mention having a kid to Jessica? So sounds all very dramatic…okay back to my reading.
Oh ooopsy I see Leigh’s child is an adult now. Hey how do you delete posts on here?