Stephen Bear claims he’s broke and can’t pay victim’s damages

A former reality star and self proclaimed “billionaire” has claimed he is unable to pay $43,500 to his ex-girlfriend after he leaked an intimate tape of her.

Stephen Bear leaves Chelmsford Crown Court. Picture: Lucy North/PA/AAP

A former reality star and self proclaimed “billionaire” has claimed he is unable to pay $43,500 to his ex-girlfriend after he leaked an intimate tape of her.

Stephen Bear, who appeared on Just Tattoo of Us, said he could only pay Georgia Harrison $19.50 per week due to his financial struggles.

Bear, 34, made the claim at a confiscation hearing to decide how much of the $43,499 he made from the leaked video he needs to pay back, The Sun reported.

The hearing, which has now been adjourned until Friday, will also determine whether the money will be paid to Georgia or instead go to the courts.

Bear told Chelmsford Crown Court he had a question about a “payment plan”, adding: “All I can afford is $19.50 a week or something.

Georgia Harrison’s ex leaked an intimate video of her. Picture: Lucy North/PA/AAP

“I’m on Job Centre’s allowance at the moment.”

Georgia was supported by Anton Danyluk, who she coupled up with on Love Island All Stars last month, as she faced Bear in court.

Bear wore a Mexican Cartel top and punched the air and smirked as he left the court.

It comes after a previous hearing was adjourned while Georgia was in South Africa filming Love Island All Stars.

Bear, who was jailed for 21 months over the revenge pornography, had indicated he “doesn’t want a single penny” to go to his ex-girlfriend.

The court was also told the self-proclaimed “billionaire” has just “$117,010.20 in a house and little else”.

He was accused of “dancing in the shadows” as prosecutor Andrew Bousfield said Bear has refused to give any evidence on his profits.

At the time the video was uploaded, he was “pretending to be a billionaire on his Twitter account” selling sexual content.

Stephen Bear punched the air as he left court. Picture: Lucy North/PA/AAP

But Financial Investigator Laura Mackenzie, from Essex Police’s Economic Crime Unit, said:

“He wasn’t a billionaire at all, no. His bank account was overdrawn.”

She told the court Bear charged $15.45 to view the video on his OnlyFans account, which had 1,061 subscribers.

He originally made $3,219.38 but this figure increased to $43,494.42 when his subscribers rose by 822 in the month before Georgia was made aware of the clip.

Bear was previously told to pay Georgia $403,645.86 in damages for the leak on a “grand scale” after she took him to the High Court in a separate civil case.

He was also slapped with an injunction preventing him from using the footage again.

Master Victoria McCloud said at the time Bear had “gaslighted” Georgia by trying to convince her she was responsible for sharing the clip.

Georgia Harrison and Anton Danyluk outside Chelmsford Crown Court, Essex. Picture: Lucy North/PA/AAP

The judge also slammed the shamed star for using the leak as a springboard for his own porn career before he was jailed.

She added: “Pornography is generally actually something done consensually. It was consensual sex but it certainly wasn’t consensual filming, and it was deeply violating.”

Georgia, who bravely waived her right to anonymity, said the leak was her “worst nightmare” and left her feeling “violated and used”.

She said her life had “changed forever” and told how she has lost her “sense of self-respect and personal dignity”.

Georgia also revealed she felt “completely and utterly exploited, like he had hung me up naked on a wall for millions of people to see and there was nothing I could do about it”.

She had begged Bear not to share the footage after he showed it to her as it would “upset her greatly”.

She was later air-dropped the 20 minute clip and discovered it was being offered for pay-per-view on OnlyFans.

Bear had advertised the clip: “Can’t wait to see me f**k in the garden.”

He was previously found guilty of voyeurism and two counts of disclosing private, sexual photographs and films.

This story originally appeared on The Sun and reproduced with permission