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.

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      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.

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

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

      He just took his HIV meds.

      Asshole post bud.