The man was declared brain dead the following day
OnlyFans model Michaela Brashaye Rylaarsdam has been charged with second-degree murder after her 2023 fetish experience with 55-year-old Michael Dale had disastrous consequences.
OnlyFans performers have become a regular part of the internet in 2025, and while the likes of Bonnie Blue and Lily Phillips take things to the extreme, this new story from California had much deadlier consequences than a few angry tweets. Michaela is now facing prison time over her content, so here’s the full story explained.
OnlyFans model Michaela Rylaarsdam was arrested last month
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Michaela, who is a resident of San Bernardino County in California, was arrested in February 2025 after a months-long investigation into the death of Escondido resident Michael, the affidavit stated, according to the Orange County Register.
He had arrived at her home on April 17, 2023, and “appeared intoxicated” but despite that, “Rylaarsdam decided to spend the next several hours with Dale and engaged in fetish behaviour at Dale’s request.”
Emergency services were called around four hours later and the OnlyFans performer was reportedly performing CPR on Michael when the paramedics got there. She told them this was the first time she had tried out bondage, dominance, sadism, and masochism – commonly referred to as BDSM.
Michael Dale was rushed to hospital but was declared brain dead the following day and taken off life-support a few days later with doctors ruling his cause of death as suffocation.
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According to the affidavit, Michael Dale gave Michaela $11k to “wrap him up in saran wrap like a mummy,” glue a pair of women’s boots onto his feet and pour adhesive onto his eyes to seal them shut. This was but one of the extreme sexual acts.
She willingly handed her phone over to the police where they found “several troubling videos” showing Michael unconscious with a duct-taped bag over his head. His hands were also bound and legs wrapped as a time-stamped video showed Michaela performing a sex act nearby.
“The evidence showed that he hired her to perform bondage acts and fetish acts,” Deputy District Attorney David Jarman, who is prosecuting the case, said. “There is no indication that he asked her to obstruct his breathing, asked her to put tape over his mouth, asked her to put a plastic bag over his head.”
In contrast, her defence attorney David Cohen said it’s “clear there was no intent to kill” and that: “She acted appropriately when she realized this was a problem.”
After pleading not guilty, Michaela is being held without bail in a San Diego County jail and is set to appear in court again next week for a readiness hearing.
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