According to what was reported in talks to sell its porn empire

Only Fans, SMUT Kingdom online, may change your hands soon. Reuters Reports that Porn Platform, Fenix ​​International, is holding business -selling talks for about $ 8 billion to the American investor group.

New York Post I mentioned earlier Leonid Raddinsky, the owner of the billionaire of the site, was looking to “spend the exit”, but he has not yet found a buyer. Reuters now determines at least one potential buyer as Forest Road, an investment company based in Los Angeles that leads a group of investors who want to buy a porn platform. On its website, Forest Road describes itself as “not your medium investment company” and says it adopts “complexity and creativity to extract value as others see restrictions.” The site also expresses its interest in “media, entertainment” and “digital assets”.

Not much knows about the conversations. Quoting sources familiar with the potential deal, Reuters wrote that Phoenix is ​​also speaking to the other interested parties. Gizmodo Communicate with only Fans for more information.

Only Fans was founded in 2016 and rose to the lead during the epidemic by helping corneal web users to satisfy sexual desire while avoiding human contact. Since then, business continued to grow only. Unlike A strange brief moment In 2021 (when the company almost claimed it would prohibit “sexual content”), it was a major destination for the dirty content, and it helped reshape the porn industry through the workers’ model. Last year, the company stated that the payments that were made through the platform had increased by 19 percent since 2023, reaching about 6.6 billion dollars.

Radvinsky bought the company in 2019 and has made an absolute killing since then. Bloomberg I mentioned Last year, the Mongols achieved one billion dollars in three years through the company’s profits from the company.

The company was also the subject of great criticism, as well as many legal complaints. Critics accuse the existence platform It is frequented by sexual travelesAnd claim that the site has also become a gateway for Sexual assault on children. A lawsuit was also filed on the company recently by the customers of Kana Anger Perhaps they were not correspondents with real models (creators often use external sources of their customers to third party companies).