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Computershack shares a report from NBC News: Leonid Radvinsky, the owner of adult-content platform OnlyFans, has died of cancer at the age of 43, the company said in a statement on Monday. "We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Leo Radvinsky. Leo passed away peacefully after a long battle with cancer," an OnlyFans spokesperson said. "His family have requested privacy at this difficult time."


Radvinsky, a Ukrainian-American entrepreneur, acquired Fenix International Limited, the parent company of OnlyFans, in 2018 and served as its director and majority shareholder. He also runs Leo, a venture capital fund he founded in 2009 that focuses primarily on investments in technology companies. According to Reuters, OnlyFans is valued at around $5.5 billion, including debt.
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  • Now show me some butthole pics!
  • I know that there will be people who say that if he didn't own it, someone else would, but why put that blemish on your own reputation? I'm certainly not saying he deserved what happened, but I just wish he had made more respectable choices in life.
    • If there was no demand, there would be no supply.
      • While that's certainly true, it's also certainly a rationalization and could be applied to every industry that services unsavory behaviors, such as gambling and drugs. And convenience certainly has an effect on demand, so if most people chose not to service these industries, the demand wouldn't be quite as mainstream.

    • Re:Contributed to Moral Decay (Score:5, Insightful)

      by dfghjk ( 711126 ) on Monday March 23, 2026 @12:52PM (#66056500)

      Compare his choices to Elon Musk's. Just what is the respectability standard? And what is the blemish you refer to? Compared to other adult streaming sites, isn't OnlyFans MORE respectable and less a blemish? Isn't that the whole point, enabling individual creators control over their own content and profit? I may be wrong, but my understanding is that OnlyFans was about reducing corporate exploitation of streaming models.

      • I think his point was that a person talented enough to have built this could have built something better. I'm sure you would also agree that it would be better if the average Colombian could sell cocaine to people as opposed to being exploited by a cartel, but at the end of the day the world would be better off if no one were involved in the drug trade at all. Of course there are some that don't consider illegal narcotics to be any more or less immoral than online pornography and that both are awful or that

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by znrt ( 2424692 )

          I think his point was that a person talented enough to have built this could have built something better.

          his talent was the ability to identify a demand and invest in it. he didn't even "build" the thing, he bought it ready made and simply changed the terms of service so that the demand could be satisfied.

          millions of people spending time and money on that platform could surely invest their talent and money on something more constructive too, but that's their choice.

          'are you not entertained'?

          • Re: (Score:1)

            by Anonymous Coward
            where else are Russians supposed to get the money to build the drones to kill Ukrainian civilians?

        • I think his point was that a person talented enough to have built this could have built something better. I'm sure you would also agree that it would be better if the average Colombian could sell cocaine to people as opposed to being exploited by a cartel, but at the end of the day the world would be better off if no one were involved in the drug trade at all. Of course there are some that don't consider illegal narcotics to be any more or less immoral than online pornography and that both are awful or that there's nothing wrong with either. For anyone who believes that pornography in and of itself is exploitative, then at best OnlyFans is just a cleaner version of hell, or possibly even worse if it entices more people to participate who might have otherwise stayed away. I'm sure more people would try cocaine (and possibly destroy their own life through addiction) if it were sold by well-dressed young men in a clean and tidy store who would have never bought it if it meant dealing with a shady looking character in a back alley in a bad part of town. All that aside, my condolences to his family. Having lost relatives to cancer myself, it's not something that's easy to go through. Whether you agree that this man was immoral or not, he still had people who were close to him and loved him and I hope that can find peace after his passing.

          Cocaine's dangers are overstated, but definitely real. Honestly, cocaine is not even one of the most dangerous drugs you can take, but like all drugs, you really have to know what you're doing and proceed with caution, ideally with medical supervision. Masturbation, however, is fully harmless. Porn is fully harmless. Any arguments otherwise, unless you're referring to religious beliefs are disingenuous. You can wank to porn endlessly and end up physically healthier with minor cardio and a greatly reduc

        • I think his point was that a person talented enough to have built this could have built something better.

          Do you mean like he could have added air conditioning?

      • Compare his choices to Elon Musk's

        That's moral relativism. If a person chooses to set the bar that low, then that's on them, but it doesn't exactly create a very impressive result.

        And what is the blemish you refer to?

        Being part of an entity that encourages people, most of whom are females who are barely adults in the eyes of the law, to permanently sell their dignity so that OnlyFans can get a piece of the profit.

        Compared to other adult streaming sites, isn't OnlyFans MORE respectable and less a blemish?

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by nucrash ( 549705 )

        Having a few friends who earned a few dollars off of OnlyFans, I am all for what he did. OnlyFans is tame compared to many other companies in the industry. If that's not your thing, fine.
        I am more frustrated with the AIPAC contributions though he says he refuted those claims.

        If you're looking for a saint, he probably ain't it. He just seems better than several others.

        • If you're looking for a saint, he probably ain't it.

          I'm not looking for a saint. They're few in number, and although they're extremely impressive as individuals, the aggregate behavior of society has much more impact. OnlyFans convinced many young people who otherwise would not have produced adult content to do so and many of them go on to regret that.

          He just seems better than several others.

          This whole thread is rife with moral relativism.

          • Re: Contributed to Moral Decay (Score:4)

            by toutankh ( 1544253 ) on Monday March 23, 2026 @01:40PM (#66056686)

            OnlyFans convinced many young people who otherwise would not have produced adult content to do so and many of them go on to regret that.

            OnlyFans didn't convince anyone, adults make their own informed decisions, it's called free will. Age is irrelevant, we have decided as a society that past a certain age you are allowed to make your own decisions, and that you are responsible for these decisions. Granted, economic pressure is a factor.

            Would you extend the same criticism to other things that people regret? For example, are you judging Bluesky or Mastodon harshly because people sometimes post things there that they later regret posting? There have been career-ending posts... Or would you extend the same criticism to a tattoo parlour? Some people regret their tattoos.

            Does something make adult content qualitatively different and more serious, beside puritanism? Is it about commodifying the self?

          • Re: (Score:1)

            by Anonymous Coward

            This whole thread is rife with moral relativism.
            Including your posts.

      • but my understanding is that OnlyFans was about reducing corporate exploitation of streaming models.

        Mine was that OF upheld standards of moderation and censorship that were acceptable enough that mainstream payment providers did not rush to refuse service to OF, their consumers and their creators.
        As a consequence they became the legal venue for adult content even if they wanted to be an alternative to YT, Vimeo, etc.

      • Everything is corporate exploitation these days, we have lost the ability to conduct business in any other way.

      • And what is the blemish you refer to? Compared to other adult streaming sites, isn't OnlyFans MORE respectable and less a blemish? Isn't that the whole point, enabling individual creators control over their own content and profit?

        - hosting child sexual abuse material and taking a year to remove it [reuters.com]
        - creating a means for sex traffickers to turn their victims into $$$ [reuters.com]
        - providing a means to sell sexual content of others (e.g revenge porn) without consent [nytimes.com]

        I've seen a lot of comments here in discussion to gig work where it's considered exploitive for Uber/Lyft to not provide health coverage and other benefits, minimum pay accounting for externalities like vehicle wear, etc. Does OF provide any of that?

        They can certainly be "better" than o

        • it's considered exploitive for Uber/Lyft to not provide...

          Uber/Lyft controls your actions and forces you to pick among the customers it sends you. You are paid at the rate they tell you. They engage in a bunch of illegal activities to harm their rivals, evade regulators, and steal income from workers. You have to actively work for every cent.

          With OnlyFans, you bring the customers. You set your entire schedule and prices. Creators on their platform are the ones engaged in the illegal activity. Once you've created content, you can leave it online and earn funds

    • Re:Contributed to Moral Decay (Score:5, Insightful)

      by real_nickname ( 6922224 ) on Monday March 23, 2026 @12:57PM (#66056524)
      I'm not an morality expert but his network allowed some sex workers to make a good living from their work. Without OF they would be simple actress without the level of fame they get. Honestly, there are a lot of far less respectable choices in life.

      • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

        by organgtool ( 966989 )
        The convenience of OnlyFans also contributed to encouraging many people to produce adult content who would not have otherwise considered doing so. And many of those people have gone on to regret it.

        • Re:Contributed to Moral Decay (Score:4)

          by Powercntrl ( 458442 ) on Monday March 23, 2026 @02:10PM (#66056756) Homepage

          The convenience of OnlyFans also contributed to encouraging many people to produce adult content who would not have otherwise considered doing so. And many of those people have gone on to regret it.

          "Don't worry, citizen! We'll make all your education and employment choices for you, because we wouldn't want you to make a bad decision you might later regret!"

          That's where your line of thinking leads.

          • That's a strawman argument. I never even implied this behavior should be illegal because that is not at all what I believe. Instead, I'd like society to take a broad view of how it impacts individuals' choices and act accordingly. If people who promote this behavior have a harder time making and keeping friends due to their actions, that would be enough to dissuade many people from engaging in the behavior. Society can gently shape behavior without resorting to coercion via laws.

          • That's where your line of thinking leads.

            But, that is what most people want. Of course, they want to be on the telling side, not the told side, but yeah, it is what people want.

        • Regretting past choices is a perfectly normal part of life.

          • I never said, nor implied, that it wasn't. That doesn't mean that we can't apply some social pressure to dissuade young, impressionable people from rushing into regrettable situations.

            • If they are old enough to vote, they are old enough to make informed decisions. What you are suggesting is to deny them agency, a fate far worse than a few regrets.

        • The convenience of OnlyFans also contributed to encouraging many people to produce adult content who would not have otherwise considered doing so. And many of those people have gone on to regret it.

          Good things I've never done anything I've regretted without OnlyFans. Good thing, EVERY job I've ever worked has been a great and smart decision.

          Do you really believe your stupid argument? I'm not even a fan of OnlyFans, but I respect any performer that wants to earn some money on the side. Consider this. There are countless single mothers living in the middle of nowhere with money problems. Sure, for you, showing your tits to strangers may sound gross...but so is their daily job...is waiting tables

      • Nah, not many. Now he's in the infinite hell goon cave.

      • Even Olympic medallist are turning to onlyfans cos they dont get paid enough when they train or compete.

        https://www.cbc.ca/documentari... [www.cbc.ca]

        So it's giving options to people from many different fields. And interesting that a nation may celebrate a medal during olympics, but dont properly support the person who probably spent many years of their life to get it.

    • If you manage to get to the tres commas club I doubt you give a fuck what other people think.

    • The ruthless selfishness of many billionaires and a certain POTUS are far more deserving of the term 'moral decay' than what goes on on OF. But when it comes to denouncing 'moral decay', people tend to look the other way unless and until something naughty comes along, then out come the condemnation and the pitchforks.

      • The ruthless selfishness of many billionaires and a certain POTUS are far more deserving of the term 'moral decay' than what goes on on OF

        Perhaps, but they're certainly not mutually exclusive.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by gweihir ( 88907 )

        Yes. Actual dangerous moral decay gets ignored, but have some essentially harmless lewd content behind a paywall and suddenly the sky is falling. People have no clue what is important and what is not.

    • Masturbation reduces prostate cancer risk! (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Somervillain ( 4719341 ) on Monday March 23, 2026 @03:14PM (#66056904)
      First of all, a platform that allows individuals to monetize their bodies on their own terms doesn't fit my definition of moral decay. It is probably the most empowering iteration of this profession we've had. I don't find showing your tits to strangers for money any more degrading than driving an Uber or working a fast food job. At least with this, they're in full control.

      However, if you have an issue with women and men showing off their bodies to excite strangers?...well...fuck you...you're the moral decay. You're a cancer that I am glad is dying out.

      Masturbation is good for you. Sex is good for you. Not everyone has valuable skills like I do...for them, a side hustle of showing their tits may mean the difference between ensuring their child has a nice Christmas and the things they need for school or not. No one forces them to do this and OnlyFans was the first major platform to let performers do things fully on their terms.

      So you're not into sex?...fine...but that's your impairment. You are the issue, not the rest of society. Let us enjoy performer's bodies in peace...and let them monetize it how they see fit.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by gweihir ( 88907 )

        The problem is that this person wants to take these possibility away from others (content creators and content consumers). And that is totally unacceptable and deeply morally corrupt.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Calydor ( 739835 )

      Reminds me of that one Spider-Man villain. "But I don't WANT to cure cancer! I want to turn people into dinosaurs!"

    • but I just wish he had made more respectable choices in life.

      What did he do that was not respectable? He lead a company that in terms of social media was far less destructive an exploitative than most others. I wish you made more respectable choices, such as not judging someone else because your priest told your conservative arse that just because someone's service is connected to something you have have been told to feel shame about, they somehow lose respect.

      Maybe next time read the parts of the bible that talk about not judging others.

      Me I'm not religious so appar

    • Consenting adults making each other happy is not "moral decay".

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gweihir ( 88907 )

      What "non respectable" things do you see here?

    • In his defense: He didn't set out to make a porn site. It's called "Only Fans" because it was supposed to be a site for celebrities or brands to post exclusive content for their fans. It wasn't until the pandemic that it really took off as a subscription porn situation. When they tried to crack down and correct the site back to what it was intended to be, it was too late. The change would've been too big for the business to survive.

    • What kind of judgmental prude lives their life like you?

  • RIP (Score:3)

    by LordAba ( 5378725 ) on Monday March 23, 2026 @12:47PM (#66056488)

    He saw, He came, He... conquered?

    • "Vidi, vici, veni" is a really old joke for people that know Latin based on paraphrasing Julius Caesar's famous message. I heard it from my Italian friend, who did better on the English portion of the US college entrance exam than 1/3 of Americans because he knew the Latin roots of all the vocabulary words.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ddtmm ( 549094 )
      He saw, he conquered, he came. - Pitbull
  • [nods] Dehydration.

  • A large AIPAC donor (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Rujiel ( 1632063 ) on Monday March 23, 2026 @01:55PM (#66056724)
    He gave over $10,000,000 to them in 2023. In that regard, he's not very different from so many other vampire billionaires https://archive.is/RgXOg [archive.is] (Rolling Stone)

    • Also cancer makes for a great cover-story for a fatal STD... especially given his business, they certainly don't want that kind of death!

      • Also cancer makes for a great cover-story for a fatal STD... especially given his business

        CEO of a social media company? Or are you referring to the fact that he's a nerd and a computer programmer? I think STDs are not a concern for him.

        Ironically not every CEO fucks their customers.

      • This is the 21st century. No STD has to be fatal anymore, not even if you stretch the STD definition to include things like Ebola becase it technically can be transmitted sexually.

  • Having lost a spouse to a (much shorter) battle with cancer, I feel bad for his family.

    That said, there is no way to operate that kind of business at that scale ethically. No matter what safeguards you put in place, there will be CSAM that makes it through, or material made with adult trafficking victims, which he profited from. I don't know how one can rationalize that.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by McLoud ( 92118 )

      Having lost a spouse to a (much shorter) battle with cancer, I feel bad for his family.

      That said, there is no way to operate that kind of business at that scale ethically. No matter what safeguards you put in place, there will be CSAM that makes it through, or material made with adult trafficking victims, which he profited from. I don't know how one can rationalize that.

      First, you need to be someone who doesn't give a f*ck... no, wait

    • That said, there is no way to operate that kind of business at that scale ethically.

      That's true of any business.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Anil ( 7001 )

      " No matter what safeguards you put in place, there will be " -- illegal material or products of exploitation.

      That goes for any business any business at scale.

      Amazon / ebay / etc have the same problem with illegal / fake products and content.

      Reddit, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter have the same problem with illegal content that is missed by moderation.

      Every platform faces this same challenge (beyond the internet). I don't find that to be a compelling reason to make the business illegal if it's core business sh

    • Having lost a spouse to a (much shorter) battle with cancer, I feel bad for his family.

      That said, there is no way to operate that kind of business at that scale ethically. No matter what safeguards you put in place, there will be CSAM that makes it through, or material made with adult trafficking victims, which he profited from. I don't know how one can rationalize that.

      What a moronic argument!!! Oooh, criminals are going to commit crimes? Anything that makes it easier to do something legally makes it easier to do something illegally. Cars make it easier to commit crimes. Gmail is used by CSAM peddlers far more often! The illegal stuff is a REALLY FUCKING TINY percentage of the revenue and when they catch it, they stop it.

      You're clearly a fucked up individual with severe issues, but here's a news flash....only pedophiles like that shit and there's not many of the

  • All the money in the world... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by tiqui ( 1024021 ) on Monday March 23, 2026 @02:31PM (#66056806)

    We live in a world where people avoid thinking about the most important things and fantasize about becoming millionaires or billionaires. Who hasn't thought about how great their lives would be if only they had a billion dollars? Money is certainly helpful. It enables one to do many things and it helps reduce all the little concerns of life, but it cannot remove the big hazards, and indeed people with mountains of the stuff gain lots of other problems along with it (like security concerns, and difficulty knowing if people like THEM or just their money). Money buys a lot, but not everything, and often not the most important things.

    Paul Allen... death by cancer

    Steve Jobs... death by cancer

    This guy... same thing

    People have often warned that "you can't take it with you" and "you never see a U-Haul trailer on towed by a hearse" and these do make a point. What's also true, however, is that even mountains of money often cannot solve particular problems while one is alive. Keep things in perspective, and don't waste time on things like envy.

    • All those "little things" lead to death by a thousand paper cuts. I agree, money doesn't solve everything, but it makes the majority of life a lot easier. Yeah, you could die a million ways every day, but it doesn't change that until we get rid of money and systems based on it, having more (to a point) will always bake things better/easier.

    • Steve Jobs... death by cancer

      Steve Jobs didn't die by cancer, he died from suicide. The indirect kind caused by not treating a perfectly normal and treatable form of cancer in the normal recommended way.

  • ... comply with his Medic Alert bracelet [etsy.com].

  • but died with a smile on his face.

  • I can't wait to watch the funeral on PPV.

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