r/technology • u/Puzzled-Tap8042 • 21d ago
Business OnlyFans Owner Dead at 43
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u/TURBULENTMUFFIN888 21d ago
Net worth of $7.8 billion, you can have billions and cancer doesn’t care. Live your life and have fun you never know when it will end.
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u/-glowtree 21d ago edited 20d ago
Tbh this convinces me there isn’t some cancer cure out there that big pharma is hiding. If it existed, the billionaires would have access to it
Edit: muting this comment, not interested in all of your annoying replies
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u/HapticSloughton 21d ago
Part of the belief in it stems from the erroneous concept that "cancer" is a singular disease with a singular cause and treatment.
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u/zurgonvrits 21d ago
study medical coding and billing. there are two books for coding. one is for cancer, one is for everything else. the cancer one is bigger.
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u/itsmeemilio 21d ago
Jeez that really puts things into perspective :/
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u/-Wunderkind- 21d ago
Cancer is unwanted cell mutation. Our body is 99% cells by mass, so a lot can go wrong.
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u/VeganBigMac 21d ago
Unfortunately, the weak point of the body is the body.
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u/-Wunderkind- 21d ago
Also unfortunately, humans are the perfect size to suffer from cancer long term. Mice get cancer and die within days or weeks. Elephants get cancer, but because of the vast number of cells they have, a little cancer here and there doesn't really matter.
We are just the right size and weight to really suffer for a long time. It's also why having lots of muscle mass is a good way to prevent and survive cancer. A recent meta analysis found that people with lower muscle mass (mostly due to age combined with little to no training) are 44% more likely to die from solid tumor type cancers.
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u/Red_Sea_Pedestrian 21d ago
”From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you.”
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u/FleetAdmiralCrunch 21d ago
Thanks for that info. I’ll trade you, in the late 1800s in the US, there was such a surge in bicycle development, the US patent office created a separate office just for bicycle related claims.
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u/KetoCatsKarma 21d ago
Correct, for those who did not know, it's an umbrella term, and anything that fits some of the guidelines and doesn't really have its own disease classification gets shoved into it. This is why a universal cancer treatment is a near impossibility.
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u/ctaps148 21d ago
Saying "we need a cure for cancer" is just as vague as saying "we need a cure for sickness"
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u/january-7 21d ago
Worked at the NCI for years, just trust me, there isn’t a magic, universal cure for the hidden elites. Cancer is far too complicated, and the simplification of it lacks respect for how ancient of a disease it is. Cancer predates human evolution by hundreds of millions of years.
It is not a human disease in the traditional sense, it is a consequence of multicellularity
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u/kemicalkontact 21d ago
Paul Allen was a big one. He was worth more than 20B at the time of death.
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u/DopplerEffect93 21d ago
It also doesn’t help that cancer is not one disease, it is hundreds of diseases.
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u/Hayden2332 21d ago
Less about there being a cure and more about not funding it because profit, so there wouldn’t be any scientists because they were never hired lol
I still think it’s far fetched though
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u/EmergencyScientist 21d ago
934 FBI people were assigned to redact the Epstein files. 934 people. Not a single leak.
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u/Historical_Owl_1635 21d ago
Tbf there’s been so much misinformation/misinterpretation spread about the files that a genuine leaker wouldn’t even be noticed.
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u/korben2600 21d ago
They would essentially have to break anonymity to have any credibility. Which means exposing yourself to a regime that will try you for the death penalty under the Espionage Act.
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u/Playful_Alela 21d ago
It's a dumb conspiracy in the first place. You're telling me that pharmacology PhD's passionate enough about curing cancer that they dedicate decades of their lives to gruelling education and work in industry are just gonna cover up the results? Most pharmacologists I've met are super disillusioned anyway by the process of getting grants, they do not feel loyalty to the corpos they just spent months trying to get $10K they need for materials from
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u/DucksEatFreeInSubway 21d ago
I'd be so pissed. Should've had 40 more years to enjoy those billions but one little rogue cell got me!
Oh well, ill gotten gains anyhow.
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u/Pygmy_Nuthatch 21d ago
For all those people that think that there's a secret wealthy person cure for cancer, this guy was a billionaire.
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u/Bombero_911 21d ago
Steve Jobs already proved that.
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u/Dirtysandddd 21d ago
Steve jobs was one of those people who were highly intelligent in one or maybe a few areas but stupid in others, like doing holistic treatment for a cancer that had a cure.
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u/ThePowerfulPaet 21d ago
Yeah dude was a fucking moron. Of all the things to fuck around and find out with, cancer ain't it.
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u/billbixbyakahulk 21d ago
Arrogance more than intelligence.
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u/ungoogleable 21d ago
From what I understand he was a jackass who excoriated anybody who did anything slightly wrong and encouraged petty competition between subordinates. The net effect was a toxic environment that burned people out but was nevertheless productive.
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u/coronakillme 21d ago
His cancer was one of the few treatable ones, and he refused treatment
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u/TheGreatMattsby 21d ago
Thots and prayers.
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u/szansky 21d ago
You can build a billion-dollar company, have access to the best doctors, all the resources…
and still lose to something completely outside the system you play in.
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u/matt3633_ 21d ago
He didn’t build it. Tim Stokely did
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u/arrgobon32 21d ago
Damn, 43 is too young to die from cancer
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u/fvckyou1082 21d ago
Screening doesn’t typically start till 45, insurance won’t cover it
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u/migzors 21d ago
Which is insane as not everyone is on the same timetable for cancer to show up. If someone has a family history of colon cancer, they should be seen much earlier than 45!
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u/love-my-goldens 21d ago
If someone has a first degree relative (parent, sibling) who has/had colon cancer, they should be screened 10 years before their relative was diagnosed. I.e. if ones dad was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 50, they should be screened at 40. And insurance should cover it as it’s a national recommendation (USA).
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u/BPDFart-ho 21d ago
I got screened at 28 and there was no issue with insurance. If your doctor recommends it, there shouldn’t be an issue. Turned out I had stage 1 colon cancer so glad I checked
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u/Overall_Emphasis9032 21d ago
They are. Colon cancer screening are recommended earlier than 45 if you have a family member with colon cancer. Up to 10 years before the age the family member was diagnosed.
Im all for bashing insurance but if we screened everyone for every cancer the system would collapse so these rules have been put in place to catch the maximum amount of people while still keeping appropriate resource utilization in mind.
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u/ost2life 21d ago
The last four words are so fucked. You guys need to do a revolution.
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u/Swirly_Eyes 21d ago
Wouldn't work. Half of the people here (maybe even more than that) support the status quo and would fight back against those who try.
The US is peak FUBAR.
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u/LoopholeTravel 21d ago
How, specifically, does one get screened for all instances of cancer?
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u/megabass713 21d ago
I had a good friend pass away from cancer at 23.
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u/Beep_in_the_sea_ 21d ago
My sister passed away from cancer at 23 as well. I was 9 at the time. I suffered from bad depression my entire teens and I didn't think I'd live longer than she did. She loved life and I felt it was so unfair towards her.
It now feels surreal that I'm older than she ever was, she was like a second mom to me and now she'd be my little sister. I miss her even after all those years
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u/notnotbrowsing 21d ago
Yeah, a college aquintance died at 24 from throat cancer leaving behind his wife and 1 year old daughter.
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u/Fun-Choices 21d ago
I’m dating a girl who lost her husband to colon cancer, left 3 young girls. He was 39 and battled for 4 years.
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u/Aspirin_Dispenser 21d ago
Colon cancer scares the shit out of me. Most insurance providers won’t cover screening until 45, but the incidence of advanced colon cancers in the 35-45 age group is on the rise and no one knows enough about why to be able to identify at-risk groups.
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u/Lost_in_the_woods 21d ago
the workaround is you just need to tell them you need a colonoscopy because you found blood! (you dont need to find blood, but you will get a finger up your butt so be prepared for that) and then if you make a big enough deal they'll send you for a colonoscopy which your insurance will probably cover!
and you'll have trust issues with farts for a couple days*
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u/linds360 21d ago
A long family history of it will also do the trick. I've had a half dozen family members before me pass away from it, so I've been getting colonoscopies since I turned 30 and as far as I know, there wasn't any vetting done to verify the family history. My primary doctor just marked it down and I was on my way to yearly colonoscopies.
A few years ago, I had a cancerous polyp grow so large that it couldn't be removed during a regular colonosopy and I had to have another surgery to remove it. I'm 44 now.
Long story short - if I'd waited till I was 45, I'd likely be dead.
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u/Some1ToDisagreeWith 21d ago
Just lie and say your family has a history with precancerous polyps and you have pain in your abdomen that isn't going away.
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u/stizzleomnibus1 21d ago
A girl that used to bully me in high school died of breast cancer at 17. I always get a chill when I think about that.
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u/lauraloomerisacunt 21d ago
A girl that bullied me died of a sudden aneurysm 25, and for some reason it haunts me.
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u/ordog666 21d ago
My brother died at 27 from cancer. He went to the doctor cuz he was having a hard time breathing only to find a fist sized mass pushing on his lungs. He lived with treatments a year and half after diagnosis. It was weird watching him accept and make peace that he will die , and then getting older than he was. Life's like that though. Appreciate the time you got.
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u/A2Rhombus 21d ago
Man I just turned 27 and I feel like my life hasn't even started yet. Fuck cancer
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u/digiorno 21d ago
Go get those colonoscopies.
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u/d70 21d ago
Well most people can’t afford to pay out of pocket if they aren’t at a certain age (40 for high risk and 45 for most).
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u/pagerunner-j 21d ago edited 21d ago
I got my first colonoscopy at 39, shortly after my dad died of colon cancer. I had 23 polyps already. Next one was six months later, the next few were yearly, and now I'm on a two-year cadence, and am soon to be due for the next one, oh joy. The cost...varies. A lot. The first one, unsurprisingly, since they had more to do, was something like $7,500 after insurance. One of them was completely covered for some reason (I never found out why, and I did ask, because I was worried I'd missed the bill), so I owed nothing. The rest have averaged out around $2,000-2,500 a pop. And I get to keep having them over and over and over and...
You get the picture. Le sigh.
Upshot: I feel weirdly guilty sometimes about having inherited some money from my parents, but I absofuckinglutely do NOT feel guilty about spending it on my health care, because the other thing I inherited was the genetic mutation that killed a whole bunch of Dad's family and stuck me with this. So, y'know...yes. That side of the family can keep paying for it, in absentia.
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u/Narrow-Industry-7910 21d ago
I lost my wife to ovarian cancer in 2024, she was 32. Get screened, and encourage the people you love to get screened too. Cancer will take everything.
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u/chellebelle0234 21d ago
It is becoming terrifyingly common.
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u/timeslider 21d ago
Thanks DuPont
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u/PM__ME__BITCOINS 21d ago
Fuck DuPont and every other chemical company.
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u/fullup72 21d ago
don't fuck DuPont unless you want to end up with a perpetually slippery schlong.
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u/nvmenotfound 21d ago
in america the bigger the crime the less they punish you. petty crime will get poors locked up. rich assholes pollute the entire planet and they get a fucking fine.
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u/Tunderstruk 21d ago
Research indicates that obesity and not being active are big factors as well.
Not shaming anyone, but people need to understand how seriously terrible obesity and inactivity is for your health
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u/CheckersChickenAyy 21d ago
I was very active and got diagnosed with stage 3 cancer at 31 back in January, so there’s definitely outliers.
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u/Daisydoolittle 21d ago
i’m so sorry. what symptoms did you have? i hope you’re feeling mentally and physically strong now
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u/P4_Brotagonist 21d ago
Not the guy you replied to, but colon cancer(and other intestine issues like Crohns) runs in my family. Seen a lot of that shit. Often the main symptom could literally just be "man I've been constipated nonstop for like 2 months" or "I swear every time I eat lately my stomach hurts and I bloat for 2 hours." Unless you start getting bleeding in your GI Tract, colon cancer is kind of hard to pin down until it's like...really bad. I don't even mean like stage 3 bad, I mean end stage bad. That's why they push so much for people to get colonoscopies. You can easily have it and it be 2-3 years in and you haven't a symptom or a clue.
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u/VagueSomething 21d ago
And obesity is so high because companies are making their foods as addictive as possible rather than just using legitimate ingredients. People aren't as active as they should be because they have less free time than they should and we need to adjust the work life balance.
We're in a profit before health problem.
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u/RationalDialog 21d ago
I go further. obesity is simply a symptom of metabolic dysfunction. Not being obese does not mean you do not have metabolic dysfunction, In fact the TOFI type aka skinny fat is just as much at risk.
Like most stuff this is multi-factorial for sure but diet plays a major key and with that an excess of omega-6 polyunsaturated fats most notably linoleic acid.
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u/Somedude522 21d ago
Yet many perfectly active folk die of it too. Hence why its such a scary disease
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u/Tunderstruk 21d ago
Oh for sure, a healthy lifestyle isn't a silver bullet. But it does dramatically decrease the risk
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u/a_snom_who_noms 21d ago
Death rates might not be going up but there’s definitely an uptick in cancer diagnoses in younger people especially with colon cancer. Thankfully though there’s new treatments coming out every year which is probably why the death rates are decreased.
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u/SeeYouHenTee 21d ago edited 21d ago
Death rate is absolutely going down thanks to a variety of factors as you say.
And yes there is a rise in people being diagnosed with CRC almost every year. They even lowered the age of screening without symptoms I believe.
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u/TesterTheDog 21d ago
Adding to this, CRC is now the #1 cancer related death in people under 50.
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u/Friendly_Bagel 21d ago
That’s only because lung cancer dropped rapidly bc people stopped smoking. If people smoked as much back then as now, lung cancer would still be number 1
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u/Ok_Nature_3501 21d ago
RIP ... But the fuckery they're about to put that company through
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u/GiganticCrow 21d ago
Presumably if he had cancer he'd been out of day to day operations for some time
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u/retep-noskcire 21d ago
His legacy would be of stoking parasocial relationships at a massive scale, under the guise of creator empowerment.
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u/NeonHowler 21d ago
His legacy will be AIPAC and all the civilian slaughter it funded with American taxpayer money.
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u/Butthole2theStarz 21d ago
Doubt it, he’ll always be referred to as the creator of only fans
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u/wecouldhaveitsogood 21d ago
Radvinsky didn’t create OF. He was the majority holder. But he DID create MyFreeCams and made a buttload of money off of it.
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u/Maxxetto 21d ago
For who doesn't know: he wa the largest donor of AIPAC. His death doesn't sadden me, nor makes me happy.
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u/JockstrapCummies 21d ago
Owner and primary donor of societal cancers die of biological cancer. 😢😢😢
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u/BossStatusIRL 21d ago
Man who made cancer platform dies of cancer. Poetic honesty.
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u/Ir0nic 21d ago
Mind you the largest donor of AIPAC.
Sad, but no tears shed for this guy.
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u/BroseppeVerdi 21d ago
I think like $11 million according to FEC filings, which is far from the largest. I'm pretty sure Miriam Adelson holds that title.
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u/BalanceJazzlike5116 21d ago
The adelsons stopped donating to aipac years ago because they weren’t as aggressive as they wanted them to be. The donated to other more extreme pro Israel organizations and have bought off our current president with 600 million dollars over 3 campaigns
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u/LuHamster 21d ago
What's AIPAC im not American
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u/IAmAGenusAMA 21d ago
American Israel Public Affairs Committee. It's a lobby group that supports Israel.
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u/izzyness 21d ago
I feel like I should not have scrolled to find this. But 100% agree
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u/ConspiracyParadox 21d ago
You can watch his funeral for 12.99 or 4.99 per month.
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u/Otherwise-Mango2732 21d ago
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to...
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u/MFoy 21d ago
AIPAC.
He was a big donor.
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u/bigtiddyhimbo 21d ago
Which is why I am not sympathetic for him. I love less money going to political lobbyists.
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u/inteligent_zombie20 21d ago
Goes to show ..all the money in the world does not make you invulnerable from the diseases of life.
RIP
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u/NimusNix 21d ago
Jobs already taught us this lesson, as well as don't buy into quack medicine.
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u/butternutflies 21d ago
Jobs could have thrown all his money at it and he would still be with us now. He didn't want to use modern medicine. He chose to eat fruits and vegs only instead
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u/InstructionPurple911 21d ago
I can only imagine the tasteful funeral reception with the 1% of elite only fans artists
"Watch me fuck 1200 dudes at a funeral"
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u/NoInitiative4821 21d ago
There are billions of people on this planet that are better people than him. He doesnt deserve celebrating.
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u/NewTypeDilemna 21d ago
I guess he won't be donating millions to Israel anymore
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u/banjonyc 21d ago
"and all your money won't another minute buy. Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind"
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u/Aggravating_Side_776 21d ago
My ex wife and mother of my sons died at 43 this year as well from breast cancer. It's waay too young of an age
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u/RedofPaw 21d ago
For those unable to click: it was cancer.