Billionaire OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky has died from cancer at 43
Leonid Radvinsky, the billionaire owner of OnlyFans, has died. He died “peacefully after a long battle with cancer” at age 43, according to a press release from the platform. . He was born in Ukraine but raised in Chicago.
Radvinsky did not create OnlyFans. He bought it in 2018, but is widely credited with transforming it from a role model. The platform became so huge that there were reports every day in 2024. His net worth at the time of his death reached $4.7 billion, more than doubling since 2021.
It was reported that he was in talks to sell OnlyFans in a . He has long been rumored to have earned around $30 million in 2018, although this figure has never been officially confirmed.
Radvinsky was notoriously secretive and avoided giving interviews, but his story is not without controversy. He built his fortune with websites much darker than OnlyFans. Radvinsky founded a similar site called MyFreeCams in 2004, while he was in college.
He also founded a website called Cybertania, which provided links to various pornographic sites. Some of these links claimed to direct users to illegal content involving children and animals.
Forbes and found that the site did not actually lead to the offending content, but it is still likely that it caused people to click on the links. Records also list Radvinsky as “websyoungest.com” and “aretheylegal.com” until 2014. It is currently unclear what these sites hosted.
He’s also been sued for everything from liking Microsoft and Amazon to directing traffic to his porn sites. These cases were all settled out of court for undisclosed sums of money.
