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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    For everyone going, “billionaire = evil, death = good,” please think the man was just 43. Fuck cancer is the first thing that should come to mind.

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      Won’t someone please think of the billionaires? They’re people just like us, deserving of dignity and respect… this man spent six years guiding a machine to squeeze pennies from the lonely and desperate, paying third worlders less than a sandwich a day to meet their sexting quotas, exploiting incel’s need for connection with a slow drip of synthesized hope. That has to count for something

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      I hear you, but I think “celebrate billionaire donor to AIPAC is dead” still takes priority over “fuck cancer” IN THIS Particular case.

      Nature filtered out a real shithead from society.

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      All this guy has was not being as well known as the others. He still operated a platform that preyed upon people desperate for money and/or sex, and milked the hell out of covid lockdown.

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      Billionaires should die as young as possible, by whatever means karma chooses.