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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Aug 25
OnlyFans Paid Owner Leonid Radvinsky $709 Million Before His Death as 2025 Profit Hit $714 Million
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Aug 25

OnlyFans Paid Owner Leonid Radvinsky $709 Million Before His Death as 2025 Profit Hit $714 Million

3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Aug 25

Summary

  • $709 million in dividends went to Leonid Radvinsky before and just after OnlyFans' 2025 year-end, with the final payments disclosed after his death from cancer in March at age 43.
  • Fenix International, the British parent of OnlyFans, reported $714 million in pretax profit for the year to Nov. 30, 2025, up 5% from 2024 despite employing only 47 people.
  • OnlyFans said its model kept scaling under Radvinsky, reaching 132 million paying subscribers and 2.5 million active creators in 2025 while taking a 20% cut of payments.
  • The company is now owned by Radvinsky's widow, Yekaterina Chudnovsky, and says it has paid creators more than $30 billion since launch and over £600 million in UK corporate taxes since 2016.
  • That growth has also drawn scrutiny over adult-content safeguards: Ofcom dropped a child-access probe but fined the firm about £1 million for inaccurate information on age-checking measures.

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