OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky is such a secretive recluse that he was dead from cancer for days before the news ever became public Monday, a pal revealed to The Post.
“Insiders knew [Radvinsky] had been dealing with health issues for some time, and while his passing is tragic, he left behind a company that was fully prepared and resilient,” said Andy Bachman, the CEO of Creators Inc., which works closely with adult content creators from the controversial site.
“His passing wasn’t sudden, so there was a lot of preparation,” he added.
“He passed a few days before the media found out, so there was no interruption to the business.”
Radvinsky, who died following a long battle with cancer at age 43, made $7.4 billion by making porn mainstream and helping people to post their most private moments on the internet for money.
But he was so guarded about his own life that there is only one public photo of him.
“The irony with Leo is that he built one of the most talked-about platforms on the internet, but he lived a life that was incredibly quiet and very disciplined, and rooted in faith and family,” Bachman said.
“He really stayed out of the spotlight.”
Sophie Rain and other top stars publicly paid tribute for the millions he helped them make — but they said they never met or spoke to him.
Before his death, Radvinsky sequestered himself away in a $19 million, 6,000-square-foot oceanfront condo at Turnberry Ocean Club, one of Miami’s most exclusive addresses.
The fortress-like property offers private elevators, 24/7 security and direct access to parking facilities so outside observers can’t see who comes and goes.
The Ukrainian-born businessman is survived by his attorney and philanthropist wife, Yekaterina “Katie” Chudnovsky, who heads special projects at the Rare Cancer Research Foundation, according to an online bio for her.
In one of his only known appearances in public, Radvinsky accompanied his wife to a gala for a gastrointestinal research foundation in 2024.
There, Chudnovsky announced that the couple had helped support a $23 million grant for cancer research in a speech that appeared to allude to her husband’s health battles, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
“Because of the scientists behind the research we are funding, one miracle followed another. The advances will forever change the face of cancer treatment. And Leo’s here tonight proving that science and miracles go hand in hand,” Chudnovsky reportedly said during her speech at the event.
According to Radvinsky’s personal website, he also made philanthropic donations to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the University of Chicago and EB Research Partnership, a global organization dedicated to funding research to treat and cure the rare genetic disease Epidermolysis Bullosa.
Radvinsky, who was raised outside of Chicago, acquired OnlyFans’ parent company, Fenix International, in 2018 from British father-and-son duo Guy and Tim Stokely, who had founded the platform two years prior, according to the Financial Times.
At the time, OnlyFans was little more than a niche site for adult content subscriptions.
He transformed the porn industry by offering adult content creators a platform to reach their audience directly through subscriptions and keep 80% of their revenues.
While working as the director and majority shareholder of the company, from 2021 through early 2025, Radvinsky paid himself a whopping $1.8 billion in dividends, according to Forbes.
His shares in the company have reportedly been held in a trust.
He was previously trying to sell his stake in the company for $8 billion, according to reports — though he had trouble finding a bank to broker the deal.
Fenix International was in talks last year over a potential acquisition by a group led by Forest Road, an LA-based investment bank and advisory firm, though the potential deals collapsed for unknown reasons.
Despite Radvinsky’s apparent bashfulness about owning OnlyFans, it wasn’t his first foray into porn.
Among his early ventures were websites that claimed to offer hacked passwords to porn sites.
Later, he would register hundreds of domain names — many of them X-rated or referencing celebrities of the early 2000s.
In 2004, he launched MyFreeCams, one of the early players in the live camming business, a precursor to OnlyFans.
Under his ownership, OnlyFans became a global sensation — particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, when it added 300,000 users a day.
Rain thanked Radvinsky for changing her life by allowing her to make $95 million on OnlyFans.
“I don’t even know how to put this into words. That man built something that changed my entire life. Like, I grew up on food stamps, and now I can take care of my whole family because of a platform he created. I will never forget that,” she told The Post.
“Before OnlyFans, I was waitressing and barely making rent. That platform gave me everything. And that doesn’t happen without someone building it in the first place,” Rain, 21, said.
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