- OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky is in talks to sell the porn-centric website
- McGregor has substantially increased his wealth since his last UFC appearance
- According to some reports, the 36-year-old’s net worth is around £150million
Conor McGregor is in ‘serious talks’ to purchase the racy subscription-based platform OnlyFans.
According to Reuters, owner Leonid Radvinsky is in talks to sell the porn-centric website to Los Angeles-based investment firm Forest Road Company but the former UFC champion has now thrown his hat in the ring for the whopping £6billion purchase.
The 36-year-old shared a report claiming that he is in ‘serious talks’ to acquire the company that saw its popularity and valuation skyrocket during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ukrainian-American businessman Radvinsky made a fortune as the founder of adult webcamming website MyFreeCams, which launched in 2004.
In 2018, he bought a 75 percent stake in OnlyFans’ parent company Fenix International Ltd. from its British founders Tim Stokely and his dad Guy Stokely.
McGregor, meanwhile, has substantially grown his wealth through wise investments throughout his combat career and especially since his last appearance in the Octagon in 2021.
According to Forbes, the Irishman has a net worth around £31m but other reports put it in the region of £150m. McGregor has been the face of Proper 12 whiskey and Forged Irish Stout, appearing in advertisements and promotional material across a host of platforms, with the Proper 12 whiskey brand named after McGregor’s home postal district in Dublin.
The Proper 12 Irish Whiskey brand was first launched back in 2018 by McGregor, with the fighter and his team eventually selling the brand for a reported sale price of roughly £500 million.
McGregor himself pocketed an estimated £120 million in the deal when selling his majority stake, but has remained a prominent promoter of the whiskey since its 2021 acquisition by Proximo Spirits.
The former two-division UFC champion also currently owns a business empire in his native Ireland which boasts the popular Dublin pub The Blackforge Inn as its public-facing crown.
McGregor has spent an estimated £2.5 million purchasing and renovating the venue on Dublin’s Longmile Road which has become the social media backdrop for the fighter’s online promoting of both Proper 12 whiskey and Forged Irish Stout.
While OnlyFans hosts all kinds of creators, it’s largely known for its pornographic content.
Several years ago, the site started pushing PG-rated content on their safe-for-work streaming platform, OFTV.
OnlyFans has put in extra effort to promote everything from cooking videos to celebrity comedy specials and reality shows on OFTV, following growing criticism and a ‘porn’ stigma around the platform.
All the content on OFTV comes from OnlyFans creators, but unlike the actual OnlyFans platform, no nudity or pornography is allowed.
OFTV has brought over a number of celebrity creators to do less risqué content, most notably American comedian and podcaster Whitney Cummings.
Last year, the CEO of OnlyFans revealed that the company has paid out $20 billion to its creators since its inception in 2016.
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