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Daily Mail
23-05-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
OnlyFans owner 'in talks' to sell racy website for whopping $8 BILLION
OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky is set to sell the racy subscription-based platform for a whopping $8 billion. According to Reuters and Variety, Radvinsky is in talks to sell the porn-centric website to Los Angeles-based investment firm Forest Road Company. The Forest Road Company already boasts a variety of investments in the entertainment industry. 'The talks with the Forest Road-led group are not exclusive and there's no timeline for when a deal might be consummated,' Variety reports. Ukrainian-American businessman Radvinsky made a fortune as the founder of adult webcamming website MyFreeCams, which launched in 2004. In 2018, he bought a 75 percent stake in OnlyFans' parent company Fenix International Ltd. from its British founders Tim Stokely and his dad Guy Stokely. The platform ended up exploding during the Covid-19 pandemic, and in 2022, Radvinsky made Forbes' list of Jewish billionaires. While OnlyFans hosts all kinds of creators, it's largely known for its pornographic content. Several years ago, the site started pushing PG-rated content on their safe-for-work streaming platform, OFTV. OnlyFans has put in extra effort to promote everything from cooking videos to celebrity comedy specials and reality shows on OFTV, following growing criticism and a 'porn' stigma around the platform. All the content on OFTV comes from OnlyFans creators, but unlike the actual OnlyFans platform, no nudity or pornography is allowed. OFTV has brought over a number of celebrity creators to do less risqué content, most notably American comedian and podcaster Whitney Cummings. Cummings joined the site in 2022 so she could post some of her edgier jokes behind a paywall without being 'taken out of context' on more mainstream social media apps. 'I know people like to make fun of [OnlyFans] because there are naked ladies on there. I just decided, if the audience is going here, as a comedian there's something worth checking out here,' she told Variety last year. She added: 'I wouldn't have the self-esteem to charge people to see my naked body. Instead of dirty photos, you're gonna see dirty jokes.' Other mainstream names on OFTV include fashion designer Elena Velez, comedian Brittany Schmitt, and reality star Heidi Montag, who released a music video on the platform. Last year, the CEO of OnlyFans revealed that the company has paid out $20 billion to its creators since its inception in 2016. CEO Keily Blair was speaking at the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles when she revealed the incredible figure. 'Porn is free on the internet. I think the reason why people pay for OnlyFans is because they want to engage with those particular creators,' Blair said. 'It's because of the ability to customize as well as to ask for a specific content.' She continued, 'Everyone assumes it's sexy content. Some of it sexy content and we're very happy with that, we're an inclusive platform, and we're that way for a reason. 'We believe it's very important for adult content creators to have a safe space, to be able to monetize and also to be able to do that alongside other content creators. 'We're all adults, we're all grownups, we can all choose what content we subscribe to.'
Perth Now
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Nick Kyrgios takes next step with reality TV star
Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has decided to embrace his 'bad boy' label in his new life without social media influencer Costeen Hatzi. The relationship between Hatzi and Kyrgios broke down at the end of March, closing the curtain on a romance that started in 2021. Now Kyrgios is moving on, however, and is set to feature in a new show with reality TV star Sophie Stonehouse (of Too Hot To Handle fame). The show is called Smash City and is based around a pickleball competition ... but there is an adult-theme twist and it is being hyped as 'spicy entertainment'. It will be a four-part series with eight OnlyFans celebrities involved, playing various pickleball games (that will be 'silly and suggestive') for $20,000. Kyrgios and Stonehouse are hosting, while adult actress Rachel Starr will umpire the games. Nick Kyrgios with adult actress Rachel Starr and reality TV star Sophie Stonehouse. Credit: OFTV The eight OnlyFans creators involved are reality show contestants Nathan Webb and Joey Joy (also Too Hot to Handle), sports stars Adi Spiegelman (a former professional tennis player and model) and Sachia Vickery (US tennis player), and models Nellie Cronen, Kayla Fitzgerald, Trippie Bri, and Steph Mi. The show has a launch date of June 13. Meanwhile, questions are being asked about the company Kyrgios has recently been keeping. Just yesterday, Kyrgios made headlines after featuring in a photo with rapper Ay Huncho. The photo was taken at the Frucition nightclub in Canberra earlier this month, and it sparked headlines because Ay Huncho is allegedly a member of an underworld clan in Sydney. 'Keep waiting on it @ayhuncho,' Kyrgios captioned the photo, which Ay Huncho re-shared. Ay Huncho real name is Ali Younes. Younes is out on $1.8 million bail as he faces kidnapping and assault charges and was also involved in a fight at Parklea Correctional Centre in June last year. In the property game, Kyrgios is hoping to fetch close to $2m for the three-bedroom, two-bathroom rooftop unit with access to a pool in Kensington, which he bought for $1.6m in 2022. The asking price for the unit he used as his Sydney base is $1.8m. The woman he had been spending his time there with in the Harbour city, Hatzi, said she had moved on from the troubled sports star. 'I'm loving my work and doing content every day,' she told The Herald Sun. 'We haven't spoken. Relationships come to an end. I believe it's for the best. 'I hope he finds peace and happiness within himself.' On the court, Kyrgios is set to play in the French Open for the first time in eight years in the doubles draw with Jordan Thompson. He is not expected to head to Roland Garros until later this month, having last played there in a second-round loss in 2017. - With The Nightly
