Australian convicted criminals making a fortune on OnlyFans
A leading victims’ rights group has blasted OnlyFans for allowing convicted criminals to earn big bucks with steamy videos. See the list.
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A leading victims’ rights group has blasted online platform OnlyFans for allowing convicted Australian criminals to rake in a fortune by posting explicit adult content.
Drug pushers and a man who did jail time for a violent home invasion are among the Aussie content creators earning thousands per month from their paid subscribers on the raunchy site.
A former police officer convicted of supplying drugs posts explicit content with his ex-fiancee, while a model who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking has bragged about earning $16,000 per month with her sex videos.
Chair of Advocacy Australia Clare Collins said the posting of explicit content by convicted criminals could have harmful impacts on victims of crime.
“Only those who are victims of serious crimes can truly understand the horrendous impact this sort of exploitation of their suffering by perpetrators who show no remorse, can have on them,” Ms Collins said.
“What is most disturbing for victims is knowing there is a market there with subscribers willing to pay criminals for such abhorrent online content.”
Ms Collins said the rights of victims of serious crime must be respected and convicted criminals should be prohibited from posting offensive content for profit.
“Legislation needs to be introduced to regulate these platforms to ensure criminals and the platforms themselves cannot profit at the expense and suffering of victims of serious crimes,” she said.
Creators on OnlyFans, which is based in the UK, cannot upload or publish content that is deemed illegal, threatening or discriminatory.
A spokesman for OnlyFans has been contacted for comment.
CONVICTED AUSSIE CRIMINALS ON ONLYFANS
Dale Egan
The former prisoner turned adult star, who describes himself as Australia’s number-one male OnlyFans creator, lives a glitzy life on the Gold Coast.
Egan, who served four-and-half years for his part in a drug-fuelled home invasion, says he has now moved on from his former life of drug abuse and crime.
He recently partnered with a former prison guard to make explicit content for the OnlyFans platform.
Zachary Samuel Maidment
The ex-Queensland Police officer received a 12-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to supplying dangerous drugs at The Star on the Gold Coast in February 2022.
Maidment started sharing explicit content on OnlyFans with a former fiancee, who is now his business partner.
Amber Luke
OnlyFans creator Amber Luke avoided jail in 2021 and was sentenced to immediate parole after pleading guilty to drug trafficking.
The Brisbane model, who spent over $190,000 transforming herself from head to toe in body art, was at one point earning around $16,000 per month by posting explicit content on the site.
Liam Ellis
Former Perth bikie Liam Ellis served four years in prison for drug-related offences and now has a huge following on the adult content site, which he describes as “lucrative”.
Casie Caldwell
The glamorous OnlyFans star, who has 1500 likes on the site, went into an intoxicated rage and spat on police in Sydney’s ritzy Double Bay in March 2022.
The officers were trying to help a man passed out in the gutter when a drunken Caldwell attacked.
The adult star was convicted and fined $500 for hindering police, and convicted of the four charges of assaulting police and placed on a Community Corrections Order for nine months.
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