EXCLUSIVE
An electrical engineer caught viciously denigrating women he met on dating apps has now been unmasked as the author of a grubby sex guidebook called Seduction Chronicles of a Psychopath.
Anton Smolin’s first-person account of his sordid exploits in and overseas was promoted online as including an orgy with a ‘toothless grandma’ and the ‘gang bang of a blindfolded and tied-up girl’.
Smolin calls himself a psychopath ‘with almost no empathy or moral and ethical standards of any kind’ and admits to keeping an Excel spreadsheet of his ‘sexual conquests’.
Seduction Chronicles of a Psychopath features material so disturbing a copy will now be given to police to investigate whether it contains admissions of Smolin committing serious indictable offences.
The book became a court exhibit when Smolin unsuccessfully sued Daily Mail for defamation over an article detailing his abusive communications with women.
Despite conceding he could not win the defamation case, Smolin is still fighting to keep the full contents of the book secret.
Smolin has continued to deny he wrote Seduction Chronicles of a Psychopath even though his name, photograph and mobile phone number appear in publicity for the book.
A promotion on the Goodreads website, apparently written by Smolin, says the book features ‘hilarious, bizarre and interesting seduction stories that took place in and overseas’.
‘The stories are all true and the events described all took place in real life,’ Smolin states.
‘They are portrayed through the eyes of a psychopath with almost no empathy or moral and ethical standards of any kind.
‘I live in a different world; what may seem bizarre and disturbing in your world may be a normal every day event in my world.
‘Unlike fiction writers, I did not make up stuff in order to shock people; I just wrote it how it was in real life.’
Smolin’s Goodreads summary then explains what readers of Seduction Chronicles of a Psychopath can expect, including descriptions of acts too graphic to publish.
‘Some of the content is explicit, and some is very explicit,’ he states.
‘If you would be uncomfortable reading about… a four-on-one gang bang of a blindfolded and tied-up girl, or a 20+ person orgy involving a toothless grandma and a mentally retarded person, then read no further’.
Daily Mail first exposed Smolin’s serial abuse of women he met on dating apps in a story published last November when he was an associate director of a Sydney engineering firm.
Four women had come forward to describe their dealings with Smolin and his habit of erupting in blind fury when they cancelled or changed arrangements made on Hinge.
Smolin told one woman who decided against meeting up, ‘Just f**k off, you stupid fat pig’, and told another who declined a second date, ‘You’re such a stupid, lying b***h’.
The 43-year-old denied those exchanges took place and sued Daily Mail for defamation in a NSW District Court action which has backfired spectacularly.
Smolin claimed the article destroyed his reputation and caused him to be sacked by wrongly portraying him as a psychopath, sexual predator and misogynist.
While preparing to defend Smolin’s defamation action, lawyers acting for this publication obtained an electronic copy of his book.
Upon reading the 305-page Seduction Chronicles of a Psychopath, those solicitors from Mark O’Brien Legal determined they had a statutory obligation under the Crimes Act to forward it to police.
The book was obtained through a subpoena issued to Smolin’s then employer, Erbas & Associates engineering consultants, which stood him down after seeing the story about how he treated women.
Daily Mail ‘s lawyers filed evidence which showed that before Smolin parted ways with his employer he asked the company to wipe his work computer hard drive, which it did.
But before clearing the hard drive Erbas had made a copy of all Smolin’s stored documents and among that material was Seduction Chronicles of a Psychopath.
As soon as it became clear the book would form a crucial part of Daily Mail ‘s defence case, Smolin capitulated and consented to a judgment and costs order being made against him.
On Thursday, Judge Judith Gibson made a formal finding in Daily Mail ‘s favour but extended an interim non-publication order over the full contents of the book.
Judge Gibson also granted an application made by lawyers acting for this publication to hand the book over to NSW and Queensland police for investigation into possible criminal conduct by Smolin.
‘[Smolin] published his “tell-all” book to the world at large, offering it for sale on Amazon, in circumstances where its existence was not difficult to ascertain because of the book reviews which remain online,’ Judge Gibson said.
Seduction Chronicles of a Psychopath, published in June 2014, had been the subject of a press release which quoted Smolin pushing his ‘expose of the world dating scene’.
‘I have been a player for more than 10 years now,’ Smolin said. ‘Things started out really slowly for me as I struggled to learn the art of seduction.
‘For a long time I was a geeky nerd and a chronic masturbator. However, over time my seduction skills, confidence and field strategies improved dramatically.’
Smolin boasted he had ‘bedded’ 106 women – ‘not including hookers and miscellaneous girls at sex parties’ – with more than 70 of those encounters occurring in the previous five years.
‘I now live in a world of multiple girlfriends, threesomes, group sex and international pimping,’ Smolin said.
‘I keep a detailed register of all my sexual conquests in a sophisticated Excel spreadsheet that I use to plot complex charts and conduct strategic data analysis.’
Many of Smolin’s ‘conquests’ took place in Eastern Europe and he recounts liaisons with women he refers to as ‘targets’ in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia and Ukraine.
Smolin catalogues his ‘drunken hook-ups with multiple girls, prostitutes that agreed to sex without charge’ and having public sex with ‘a young local girl’ on top of a castle tower in Latvia.
‘Smolin hopes that other men will read his book and become more successful with women and won’t have to go through the same hardships that he did when he first started learning the art of seduction,’ the press release states.
The phone number attached to that press release is the same one Smolin used when contacting women whose experiences with him appeared in the original Daily Mail article.
Seduction Chronicles of a Psychopath outlines Smolin’s advice for ‘aspiring Casanovas’, and offers ‘pick-up strategies fine-tuned from more than 10 years of field experience’.
‘The key to success is determination,’ he writes in the press release.
‘I succeeded not overwhelmingly because of charm, good looks, skill or charisma; the key factors for my success are determination and hard work.
‘Most people can’t be bothered and that is why they usually fail; well… I can be bothered and that is why I am now well into the triple digits.’
Some of Smolin’s dating tactics were laid bare by the women who spoke to Daily Mail in November last year.
One woman who had met Smolin on Hinge made plans to meet him the next night but after several conversations over WhatsApp decided against it.
‘Hey there, I am actually going to pass I think, as I don’t think there’d be much of a connection there,’ she wrote. ‘All the best with your search and enjoy France.’
The woman’s polite message was met with outrage from Smolin.
‘Why? I did nothing wrong. You’re such a weirdo time-wasting idiot,’ he said.
‘Just f**k off, you stupid fat pig. That’s the reason you’re single: because you’re an annoying fat piece of s**t. Nothing to do with not enough intelligent men being available.
‘Go eat some more takeaway… Men love fat pigs.’
Another woman who declined a second date with Smolin after drinks at the Opera Bar received a barrage of abuse when she told him ‘we don’t really click.’
‘I cannot believe what a rude, annoying, inconsiderate idiot you are,’ Smolin said.
‘If you did not want to meet, you could have just said so. There was no need to waste so much of my time. You’re such a stupid, lying b***h.’
Smolin objected when a third woman told him she would be driving to the same harbourside venue because it was a Monday night and she did not want to drink.
‘No,’ he wrote. ‘Date cancelled.’