Leo Radvinsky became a billionaire after investing in the site, known for its pornographic content.

The owner of OnlyFans, a site known for its adult content that is credited with revolutionising the online porn industry, has died at the age of 43.

Leonid Radvinsky, who was born in Ukraine and grew up in Chicago, had purchased the company in 2018 from its two UK-based founders.

The site’s popularity surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, landing him on Forbes’ annual list of billionaires just three years later.

He “passed away peacefully after a long battle with cancer,” OnlyFans confirmed in a statement, which asked for privacy for his family.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    862·
    2 months ago

    And all your money won’t another minute buy. Dust in the wind.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      231·
      2 months ago

      And all your money won’t another minute buy.

      Because all these billionaires would rather hoard money than pay taxes for cancer research, or get Trump elected, who killed all cancer research in 2025.

      We should have service that sends cards to people on their deathbeds: “No cure, but you saved $11,000 in taxes”.

      • liuther9@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 months ago

        I have a feeling that many of them are not smarter than regular engineering department student

      • frongt@lemmy.zip
        101·
        2 months ago

        Yeah. Money gets you the private cancer treatments. Or it gets you on the organ transplant list in all 50 states. Or pays for procedures overseas.

      • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Sure, but I don’t think that long explanation would go very well in the middle of the song.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        43·
        2 months ago

        Didn’t magic Johnson throw money at his HIV to keep it from becoming AIDS?

        He just took his HIV meds.

        Asshole post bud.