An investigation into inflated earnings, platform economics, and where the money actually goes
Danielle Bregoli says she’s made $75 million on OnlyFans. Blac Chyna was supposedly pulling $20 million a month. Sophie Rain claims $43 million in one year, including $4.3 million from a single fan.
These numbers get reported as fact by Billboard, TMZ, Complex, and Rolling Stone. They become the pitch — the reason 179,522 people applied for OnlyFans creator accounts in a single month in early 2025.
None of it holds up. And the actual financial picture is worse than a few inflated paychecks. The platform’s late owner pulled $1.8 billion in personal dividends over four years. The median creator makes $180 a month. And the largest traceable political spend from that fortune was an $11 million pledge to AIPAC that the owner denied making — then went silent when confronted with wire transfer records.
The Earnings Mirage
Blac Chyna and the $239 million lie
For years, Chyna topped every “highest-paid OnlyFans creator” list. The figure most cited: $20 million per month, or $240 million a year. That would have made her the highest-paid celebrity on the planet.
The real number was about $1 million. Total. Over two years.
That’s not speculation — it’s sworn testimony. During her April 2022 defamation trial against the Kardashians, Chyna told the court she’d earned $1 million from OnlyFans since joining in 2020. She also testified she hadn’t filed taxes for three consecutive years, didn’t have a personal bank account, and earned about $2 million annually from all sources combined. She later told Forbes the OnlyFans figure was “close to $2 million, within a two year span.”
So where did $240 million come from? CelebrityNetWorth.com traced it to a September 2021 infographic from InfluencerMarketingHub.com — a marketing blog that estimated hypothetical earnings if 2.5% of a creator’s Instagram followers paid for subscriptions. A thought exercise. Not platform data. But Statista picked up the number, other outlets cited Statista, and within months the fake figure was circulating as fact everywhere from Business Insider to TikTok. Sites still list Chyna as OnlyFans’ top earner at $240 million a year. That’s off by about 12,000%.
Bhad Bhabie: Screenshots as evidence
Bregoli has posted what she says are dashboard screenshots, which makes her harder to debunk outright than Chyna. But her numbers keep climbing in ways that deserve questions: $52 million in April 2022, $57 million by July 2024, $75 million by early 2025. That last figure came from a Twitch livestream. Not a tax return. Not a sworn statement.
Her supposed $18 million first month (April 2021) would have required roughly 750,000 paying subscribers at $23.99/month within weeks of launching — six days after her 18th birthday. No creator on any subscription platform has ever converted social media followers at that rate. The “receipts” are screenshots posted to Instagram Stories. No audit exists. No tax filing has surfaced. OnlyFans has never confirmed or denied any individual creator’s earnings.
Everyone’s lying and the veterans know it
In January 2026, former child YouTuber Piper Rockelle joined OnlyFans and posted screenshots claiming $1 million in her first hour and $2 million on day one. Users found formatting inconsistencies and timeline errors in the images. Rockelle deleted the posts. Creator Breckie Hill went public, threatening to contact OnlyFans’ CFO and expose the screenshots as fakes.
Sophie Rain’s $43 million claim drew skepticism from podcaster Adam22 and adult performers Maitland Ward and Farrah Abraham, all of whom publicly questioned the number. Rain’s rebuttal: why would she bother Photoshopping a screenshot?
On BlackHatWorld, a forum for internet marketers, users trade tips on faking OnlyFans earnings screenshots to recruit models into management agencies. “Photoshop is the key,” one wrote.
The Real Numbers
Thomas Holland of XSRUS scraped the OnlyFans website and published one of the only independent analyses of creator income. The median account earns $180 a month. The top 1% takes 33% of all money. The top 10% takes 73%. Holland calculated OnlyFans’ Gini index — the standard measure of inequality — at 0.83. South Africa, the most unequal country on Earth, sits at 0.68.
Below the top 5%, the floor drops out. Most creators earn about $24 a month. Forty percent pull under $10. Of the 4.6 million people with creator accounts, 300 break $1 million a year and about 16,000 clear $50,000.
The platform keeps 20% of every dollar. In 2024, fans spent $7.2 billion on OnlyFans. The company netted $1.4 billion in revenue and about $684 million in pre-tax profit with a staff of 46.
Where the Money Went
Leonid Radvinsky, born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1982, bought a 75% stake in OnlyFans’ parent company Fenix International in 2018 for a reported $30 million. At the time, the platform had less than $100 million in annual revenue. By the time he died, it was doing $7.2 billion a year.
His dividend payments, per audited UK Companies House filings: $284 million in 2021. $338 million in 2022. $472 million in 2023. $701 million in 2024. By the end he was collecting $1.9 million a day.
Radvinsky died of cancer on March 20, 2026, at age 43. His illness had been kept secret. The Wall Street Journal reported he transferred his entire OnlyFans stake to a foundation before his death. Depending on valuation, that foundation holds between $3.5 billion and $8 billion.
The LR Foundation
The LR Foundation, based in Miami (EIN: 93-2326341), filed its first 990-PF with the IRS for fiscal year 2023. ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer shows the foundation received $8.7 million in contributions in 2024, disbursed $8.5 million in charitable grants, and listed Radvinsky as its sole director with zero compensation.
Inside Philanthropy reported the top grantee was the Colorectal Cancer Alliance ($8.6 million across two grants), where Radvinsky’s wife, attorney Yekaterina “Katie” Chudnovsky, sits on the board. The Jaime Leandro Foundation received $2 million. The Rare Cancer Research Foundation got $700,000 — Chudnovsky is an advisor there, too. Nearly every documented grant went to an organization where Chudnovsky holds a governance role.
The AIPAC pledge
In February 2024, The Lever published internal AIPAC donor documents covering the post-October 7 fundraising period — $90 million raised in one quarter. One pledge stood out: $11 million, the largest on the list, attributed to “Mr. Anonymous Anonymous” and Katie Chudnovsky.
The Lever confirmed through personal information in the documents that “Mr. Anonymous Anonymous” was Radvinsky. When contacted, he denied the pledge: “I didn’t donate or pledge $11M.” He said the denial covered him, his foundation, and his family. Asked why AIPAC had him on their list, he replied, “I don’t know.” When The Lever asked about documentation showing a wire transfer from Chudnovsky to AIPAC, Radvinsky stopped responding.
Rolling Stone, The Forward, and Jacobin all corroborated The Lever’s reporting. The $11 million was more than five times larger than the next biggest donation on AIPAC’s internal list.
Financial red flags
The AIPAC pledge wasn’t the first time Radvinsky’s finances drew scrutiny. Forensic News reported that banks filed Suspicious Activity Reports on Radvinsky’s companies — OnlyFans and his earlier venture MyFreeCams — totaling over $1 billion in flagged transactions going back to 2009. The SARs cited offshore transfers, “layering” of payments between U.S. accounts, and routing through processors in Curaçao and Belize. The FBI reportedly opened an investigation into OnlyFans’ financial activity. No charges resulted.
Separately, in 2022, multiple lawsuits alleged that Fenix International bribed Meta employees to place rival adult creators on a global terrorism watchlist, routing payments through a secret Hong Kong subsidiary into Philippine bank accounts. Court filings included what plaintiffs said were leaked wire transfer records from a Fenix-linked entity called “Smart Team” at HSBC to trust accounts at the Philippine Bank of Communication. The bribery claims were later withdrawn and the case dismissed on jurisdiction — not on the merits.
Who Benefits From the Lie
OnlyFans never corrects inflated earnings claims. Every headline about a teenager making millions is free advertising. Creators keep arriving — 7,000 new ones a day — and the platform skims 20% regardless of what they earn.
Management agencies — the “chatting” companies that run creator accounts and respond to subscriber messages — use earnings screenshots, fake or real, to recruit new models. OnlyMonster, one such platform, claims its network manages 10,000 creator accounts doing $80 million in monthly sales.
The creators who post inflated numbers benefit because the screenshots themselves drive subscriptions. If fans think you’re earning $18 million a month, they want to see what’s worth that price. The claim is the product.
The people who lose are the 4.6 million creators on the other end. Holland’s research found that relative to the hours most spend engaging with subscribers, the majority of accounts lose money. They’re producing content for less than minimum wage so the platform can collect its 20% and a dead billionaire’s foundation can figure out what to do with $8 billion.
Radvinsky is dead. His foundation has no publicly named successor director. IRS disclosure timelines mean the public probably won’t see a full accounting of where the money goes until 2028 at the earliest.
In the meantime, 7,000 new people will sign up to create OnlyFans accounts tomorrow. Most of them saw a screenshot.
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