LOS ANGELES (Web Desk) – With his infinite supply of supercars, private jets and beautiful women, billionaire businessman Tony Toutouni is threatening to become the new King of Instagram.
The 42-year-old entrepreneur – who chronicles his immensely extravagant lifestyle on the photo-sharing site and is usually seen next to stacks of cash and bikini-clad models – admits ‘it’s not that hard to get any girl you want’.
His outrageous posts, which have seen him amass 750,000 followers in eight months, are threatening to steal him the King of Instagram crown from his friend and fellow super-rich playboy Dan Bilzerian.
Toutouni, who goes by the name @lunatic-living on the site, said: “What man in this world can’t say this isn’t the lifestyle they want to live? It’s a lifestyle that every man wants to live and I enjoy living it.
“As a single guy, I dated many, many women. Being young in LA and having anything you want, it’s not that hard to get any girl you want.”
His Instagram account uses the line: “They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, so I compromised! Moderately rich and just moody.”
The billionaire downplays the new rivalry with his friend Dan Bilzerian, who was dubbed King of Instagram last year and has a staggering eight million followers.
He said: “I don’t want to compete with Dan but people are saying that I’ve grown dramatically and extremely fast I can tell you that.
“But Dan is actually a friend of mine and the whole Instagram thing started because he was posting on it.
“I saw that his Instagram following was growing pretty fast so I started doing it. The more I posted, the more people would tag and tag.”
Los Angeles-based Toutouni made his fortune after buying a nightclub in Hollywood, California, when he was just 19 years old.
He explains: “It became very successful and so I sold it and purchased another one. I also invested in car dealerships and different ventures – restaurants, bars. I’d build businesses to be successful and then sell them for a profit.”
His shockingly excessive posts get their fair share of criticism online.
“Sure I get hate on Instagram,” he says. “I have feminists who hate me with a passion and church people who want to cure me because I have ‘issues’.”
Toutouni has recently started seeing a regular girlfriend but does not expect his Instagram antics to calm down.
The previous so-called King of Instagram, poker player Dan Bilzerian, has never been far from controversy since his rise to online fame.
He was recently forced into making a public safety announcement in order to avoid jail after being arrested for placing homemade explosives inside a tractor before shooting them.
The film shows a stony-faced Bilzerian speaking from behind a desk in his lavish home, complete with gun-shaped candle holder, an action figurine of himself, and a bizarre painting, while lecturing people on ‘responsible’ gun ownership.
And at the end of last year he found himself on the end of a lawsuit after model Vanessa Castano claimed he kicked her in the face in a nightclub.
Footage from the scene appears to show Bilzerian dancing on a stage in a club in South Beach, Miami, with the crowd below him, before he lashes out with his foot.
He was also facing a lawsuit for $85,000 in lost earnings after he threw pornstar Janice Griffith, 19, off the roof of his home and into the pool below.
However she landed short, breaking her foot. She had tried to claim money for shoots she could not attend following the accident.
Bilzerian fought back, claiming the model grabbed at his t-shirt at the last second, nearly dragging him off the roof with her. The charges were eventually dropped.
Bilzerian is reportedly worth $100 million, making the bulk of his cash as a high-stakes gambler after developing his skills as a student at the University of South Florida.
