Conor McGregor claims he is in ‘serious talks' to buy OnlyFans

Sunday World

26-05-2025

The website is popular among influencers, models, and public figures, with some top earners making millions every year
The disgraced MMA fighter took to social media, where he shared a post from an entertainment news website reporting that the subscription website was for sale.
'OnlyFans owner has reportedly put the platform up for sale,' the post read, with McGregor adding: 'I'm in serious talks to buy this.'
OnlyFans is a content platform which allows creators to share videos and images with subscribers, who pay a fee for access to their exclusive content.
The website is popular among influencers, models, and public figures, with some top earners making millions every year.
It is famed for its use among sex workers who use the website to sell both professional and amateur pornographic material.
According to Reuters, the 43-year-old Ukrainian-American entrepreneur behind the company is in talks to sell his business to an investor group for an estimated €7 billion.
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The publication have said that talks have been ongoing March.
Leonid Radvinsky earned €414 million in dividends from the site last year, boosting his net worth to €3.3 billion, according to Forbes Magazine.
He purchased OnlyFans in 2018 from a U.K.-based family, who founded the company in 2016.
The New York Post has reported that he is struggling to find a buyer 'because of its X-rated business model.'
'You're looking to find billionaires and trying to sell it as not an adult content company but just a platform like X that allows adult content,' a source told the publication.
'But I think most people right now view OnlyFans as an adult content company.'
McGregor has previously claimed interest in buying Chelsea F.C for £1.5billion from former owner Roman Abramovich.
Earlier this year he expressed an interest in purchasing two League of Ireland clubs.
'How much is it to buy a League of Ireland team? I might buy two,' he posted on X.
Forbes Magazine has estimated McGregor's net worth is $43 million, while other sources claim it is closer to $200 million.
In January, a judge ordered McGregor to pay Nikita Hand €100,000 of her €250,000 damages and €200,000 of her expected €1.3m legal costs.
It came after a jury found McGregor civilly liable for raping the hair colourist at a hotel in Dublin in 2018.
Both McGregor and his friend James Lawrence, who was also named in the civil law suit, denied raping Ms Hand, insisting they both had consensual sex with her.
During the trial, Ms Hand testified she had been 'brutally raped and battered' by McGregor and at one point thought she was going to die and never see her young daughter again.
The trial heard how Ms Hand and her work colleague Danielle Kealey had been out on December 8, 2018 at a Christmas work party.
Ms Hand wanted to continue partying into the next day and, after contact with McGregor via Instagram, the UFC fighter collected them from the salon where they worked.
The group picked up Lawrence from his home and arrived at the Beacon Hotel around midday.
Ms Hand said she was raped by Mr McGregor some time between 12.30 pm and 6 pm.
The jury heard she remembered the rape but had gaps in her memory about what happened afterwards.
They also heard evidence that a tampon was wedged so far inside her vagina it needed to be removed with a forceps in the Sexual Assault Treatment Unit of the Rotunda Hospital, where she presented in a terrified state the following day.
The court was shown photos of Ms Hand's badly bruised body, taken by Gardaí two days after the events in the hotel.
After the jury found McGregor had assaulted Ms Hand in the Beacon Hotel, the mother-of-one spoke outside court where she said that she felt vindicated, and urged victims to 'keep on fighting for justice'.
While the jury found that Lawrence had not assaulted Ms Hand, Justice Alexander Owens later ruled that Ms Hand would not be penalised for having to pay costs for losing her action against Lawrence.
'It would be completely inappropriate to award Mr Lawrence any of his legal costs, even though he succeeded in his case,' the judge said.
Conor McGregor outside court during the civil case taken against him by Nikita Hand. Photo: Collins Courts
Although a jury dismissed her case against Lawrence, the judge found that they had not believed his claim that he and Ms Hand had consensual sex.
'Mr Lawrence was entirely successful in defending the claim but not for the reason advanced in his defence,' the judge said.
Mr Justice Owens said the verdict of the jury was, in his view, on the basis no sex took place between Mr Lawrence and Ms Hand, rather than his claim that they had consensual sex.
He said for this reason, he would depart from the normal rule that the losing side pays the costs of the winning side.
The judge said he would make no costs order in relation to Lawrence, which means he must pay his own costs. The court has previously heard that Lawrence is a man of 'limited means' and that McGregor was paying his legal costs.
McGregor has since launched an appeal, which is set to be heard by the court in July.