Essex family behind OnlyFans profit from pornography boom
Last modified on Mon 24 May 2021 14.09 EDT The Essex family that founded the sex-worker social media platform OnlyFans extracted tens of millions of pounds from its parent company in the last year, as it profited from a lockdown-induced rush to use online pornography. OnlyFans – run by Tim Stokely, his brother Tom and his father Guy, an ex-investment banker – handled £1.7bn of sales during the year to November 2020, up 615% on the previous 12 months. Although the company likes to boast of the income it delivers to the “creators” who upload the videos, its newly filed accounts suggest...