OnlyFans Paid Its Owner 709 Million Dollars in the Months Before He Died, and Control Has Already Passed to His Widow

Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian American billionaire who owned OnlyFans, died in March 2026 with a net worth estimated at 4,7 billion dollars, but the numbers that stand out most are the ones from the months just before. Radvinsky collected 709 million dollars in dividends from the company in that stretch, 535 million during the 2025 fiscal year that ended in November and another 174 million spread across four payouts in the first three months of 2026, well above the 497 million he had taken the year before.

That final year was simply the largest installment in a pattern Radvinsky had kept up since 2021, when he began treating OnlyFans as a source of steady, growing cash rather than a company to reinvest in. Across those years he withdrew roughly 2,5 billion dollars in total dividends, a figure that puts the size of the business in perspective, OnlyFans generated 1,55 billion dollars in revenue in 2025, up 10 percent from the year before, with operating profit rising 6,5 percent to 709 million.

Radvinsky bought his way into that business relatively cheaply. In 2018 he paid roughly 30 million dollars for a 75 percent stake in Fenix International, OnlyFans' parent company, from its founders Tim and Guy Stokely. He arrived with money already made, having built an earlier fortune running MyFreeCams, an adult webcam platform, and he ran OnlyFans with the same instinct for extracting cash rather than the growth at all costs playbook more common in venture backed technology companies.

Control of the company did not become a contested question after his death. It passed to his widow, Yekaterina Chudnovsky, who becomes sole trustee of the LR Fenix Trust and who people close to the company describe as having long been his de facto business partner rather than a passive spouse. The transition appears to have been prepared for rather than improvised.

Weeks later, the first sign of a life for OnlyFans beyond its founder arrived. Architect Capital bought a 16 percent stake in the company at a valuation of about 3,1 billion dollars, and has said publicly that it wants to push OnlyFans toward content beyond its adult entertainment core. Whether that reshapes a platform built almost entirely around one category of content, or simply adds a new line of business alongside it, is the question that now falls to Chudnovsky rather than to the man who spent seven years pulling cash out of the company faster than almost anyone could reinvest it.