OnlyFans Owner Leo Radvinsky Dies at 43 -- WSJ

Dow Jones03-23

By Sam Schechner

Leo Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire who reshaped the pornography industry by turning subscription service OnlyFans into an adult-content powerhouse, has died "after a long battle with cancer," the company said. He was 43.

Radvinsky, who was born in the Soviet Union and raised outside Chicago, bought the then-obscure British video platform in 2018. Since then, Radvinsky boosted user numbers to more than 377 million, bringing in $7.2 billion in revenue for the year ended in November 2024, according to recent U.K. company filings.

Radvinsky -- the company's sole owner -- had been seeking to sell OnlyFans. The company was in talks to sell a 60% stake to Architect Capital, an investment firm, in a deal that values the service at around $3.5 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year.

He transferred his shares in OnlyFans to a foundation in late 2024, according to corporate filings.

"We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Leo Radvinsky," a spokeswoman for the company said.

Write to Sam Schechner at Sam.Schechner@wsj.com

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