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Only Fans

Inside the race to sell OnlyFans

OnlyFans has been a money-printing machine for its secretive billionaire owner Leonid Radvinsky. Investors were puzzled by an obscure debt fund’s pitch to buy him out, until they learned of his terminal cancer diagnosis.

  • By Iain Martin

OnlyFans billionaire Leonid Radvinsky, dies at 43

Radvinsky, a Ukrainian-born U.S. citizen, purchased OnlyFans in 2018 and was estimated to be worth $4.7 billion at the time of his death, though he first made millions operating shady and spammy porn websites that he built as a teenager.

  • By Conor Murray
  • Forbes Staff
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