OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies aged 43 after building adult-content empire
OnlyFans CEO and owner Leonid Radvinsky has died aged 43, his company has announced following a long battle with cancer.
The reclusive billionaire acquired Fenix International, OnlyFan’s parent company, in 2018 for an undisclosed sum. Last year Mr Radvinsky earned more in 100 seconds than what the average OnlyFans “creator” grosses in a year.
"We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Leo Radvinsky. Leo passed away peacefully after a long battle with cancer," the London-based company said in a statement quoted by Bloomberg. "His family have requested privacy at this difficult time."
At the time of his death the Ukrainian-American businessman was the sole shareholder of the company and was living in Florida with his wife and kids. His 2018 deal to buy OnlyFans came two years after the site was created by British father and son duo Guy and Tim Stokely.
The controversial site’s not-suitable-for-work content boomed in lockdown. While OnlyFans points out that not all the material on the site is sexually explicit it is widely accepted that the site’s rapid growth is largely down to user-generated pornography.
OnlyFans “creators” can post videos and photos behind a paywall, which “fans” or subscribers pay a monthly fee to access. Creators can also earn money from tips and from “pay-per-view” content. In 2019, OnlyFans facilitated £238m of such payments. By 2023 that sum had soared 21-fold to £5.3bn.
As of October, 2025, he had an established net worth of $7.8bn according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaire rankings, reports the Daily Star. In 2024 Radvinsky and his wife were both public supporters of a $23million grant programme for cancer research. Radvinsky has also indicated on his personal website his aspiration to sign the Giving Pledge, a public commitment by wealthy individuals to donate the majority of their fortune to philanthropic causes.
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