US authorities have arrested 55-year-old Farzad ‘Tony’ Toutouni, an Iranian social media personality known as the ‘King of Instagram’, whose extravagant lifestyle and criminal history have attracted considerable attention.

According to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Toutouni was arrested in connection with a history of criminal offences dating back to 1989, including kidnapping, robbery and extortion.

Toutouni, who lived in a $5 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills, regularly flaunted his lavish lifestyle on Instagram, posting photographs featuring stacks of cash, naked women and extravagant parties.

In his published biography, he described himself as a self-made businessman and a ‘Pelvis Philanthropist’.

According to the official ICE announcement, Toutouni first entered the United States legally in 1983. In 1993, an immigration judge ordered his removal from the country, although the order was not enforced at the time. A second removal order followed in 1999, when he was deported to Mexico. Toutouni has since claimed that he re-entered the US illegally on or around 4 April 2011 near St Clair, Michigan, crossing the river on an electric-powered raft he had purchased in Canada.

He has previously been sentenced to more than 16 months in prison for offences including issuing or circulating a fraudulent cheque, conspiracy to commit a crime, possessing or altering access-card equipment, forgery, kidnapping, robbery and extortion.

One particularly revealing Instagram post showed Toutouni aboard a private jet, with three women sitting on his lap and bundles of $100 bills scattered around him. The accompanying caption read: “I live every day like it’s my last!”

“No wife, great life,” he wrote alongside another photograph in which he appeared inside a luxurious apartment carrying a naked woman over his shoulder.

More recently, he was pictured enjoying himself at the Burning Man festival, surrounded by women at a campsite featuring a specially customised motorhome and a trailer decorated with psychedelic designs.

ICE officials said Toutouni is now in federal custody as US authorities begin proceedings to remove him from the country.