The late owner of OnlyFans was paid more than $700m (£513m) in dividends before his death from cancer earlier this year.

Fenix International Ltd, the British company behind the subscription platform, reported $714m in pre-tax profit for the year ending November 2025, a 5% increase from the previous year.

The company paid $535m in dividends during the financial year, followed by another $174m between November 2025 and March 2026. The payments brought the total to about $709m before Leonid Radvinsky’s death.

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Radvinsky, who bought OnlyFans in 2018, died on 23 March at the age of 43. His widow, Yekaterina “Katie” Chudnovsky, now owns the company.

OnlyFans became particularly popular during the Covid-19 pandemic. The platform allows creators to charge subscribers for access to content, with the company taking a 20% share of payments.

The site had 132 million paying subscribers plus 2.5 million active creators in 2025.

Despite its huge profits, Fenix International employs only 47 people, making it an unusually small company compared with other businesses generating similar levels of profit.

OnlyFans is best known for adult content, although the platform also hosts creators producing material about fitness, cooking and other subjects.

The company’s rapid growth has attracted scrutiny from regulators over adult content, age verification, plus the safety of creators.

UK communications regulator Ofcom previously fined the company about £1m after finding that it failed to provide accurate information about its measures for checking the ages of users.

OnlyFans chief executive Keily Blair said the platform had paid more than $30bn to creators since its launch a decade ago.

She also said the company had contributed more than £600m in corporate taxes to the UK economy since 2016.

(BBC News)