Leonid Radvinsky

Leonid Radvinsky    ( businessman)
Born	30 May 1982  Odessa,  Ukrainian SSR,  Soviet Union
Died	March 20, 2026 (Age 43)
Nationality	•  Ukraine? •  US
Ethnicity	Jewish
Alma mater	Northwestern University
Spouse	Katie Chudnovsky
Interests	pornography
Jewish-Ukrainian-American billionaire founder of the pornography subscription service OnlyFans. Major sponsor of AIPAC

Leonid Radvinsky was a Jewish-Ukrainian-American founder of the cam site MyFreeCams and the majority owner of the pornography subscription service OnlyFans, which made him a billionaire. His money was then used to sponsor AIPAC.

Background

Radvinsky was born in Odessa on May 30, 1982, to a Jewish family. His family later emigrated to Chicago when he was a child. He attended Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, Illinois. In 2002, he graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in economics.

OnlyFans

In 2004, Radvinsky founded MyFreeCams, an adult streaming website. The same year, Microsoft sued Radvinsky for allegedly sending millions of deceptive emails to Hotmail users, but the case was eventually dismissed.

In 2018, Radvinsky purchased a majority stake in OnlyFans' parent company Fenix International Ltd. from British founders Tim and Guy Stokely, reportedly for approximately $30 million. He later acquired full ownership. Under his direction, OnlyFans pivoted heavily toward adult content and experienced explosive growth, especially during the "Covid pandemic".

A Reuters investigation in 2024 uncovered extensive allegations of nonconsensual content on OnlyFans, identifying 128 cases in which people complained to U.S. law enforcement that sexual content featuring them had been posted without their consent between January 2019 and November 2023.

In 2022, competitor FanCentro and other plaintiffs filed lawsuits alleging that OnlyFans and Radvinsky paid bribes to Meta employees to have competing adult content performers placed on the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) database, effectively destroying their businesses.

A BBC investigation in 2021 found that minors had used fake identification to set up accounts and sell explicit videos on OnlyFans. In one case, a 14-year-old used her grandmother's passport. The UK's most senior police officer for child protection called children on the platform "exploited." A U.S. Homeland Security Investigations special agent confirmed he had seen child sex abuse material (CSAM) originating from OnlyFans during a 2021 call with Mastercard executives, noting the paywall makes it exceptionally difficult for law enforcement to discover offending accounts.

AIPAC

In 2023, according to The Lever's reporting on confidential internal documents obtained from AIPAC - the pro-Israel lobbying group - Radvinsky and his wife had contributed $11 million to the organization. When emailed for comment, AIPAC strongly condemned the reporting, and Radvinsky denied his contribution, writing "I don't know" when asked why his name appeared in the documentation. The Lever also reported the existence of a documented wire transfer from Radvinsky's wife to the organization.

Radvinsky denied the contribution. "I didn't donate or pledge $11M," he wrote in an email to The Lever, adding "this appl[ies] to me / my foundation / my family." When asked why AIPAC listed him as a donor, he replied, "I don't know." When pressed about the wire transfer documentation, he stopped responding.

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