Stephen Bear made £22k from OnlyFans revenge pornography

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Stephen Bear gained £22,300 profit from his OnlyFans revenge pornography video, a court heard.The 34-year-old walked out of prison on January 14, having served 10 and a half months for sharing a private film of him having sex with his ex-girlfriend, The Only Way Is Essex star Georgia Harrison, on the website.The winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2016 was jailed on March 3 last year after being found guilty of voyeurism and of two counts of disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress.At Chelmsford Crown Court on Friday, Bear was found to have profited £22,305.46 from the CCTV footage of the two having sex in a garden on August 2, 2020.At the time, Bear was posing as “a billionaire” on his Twitter and YouTube accounts but was “in fact heavily overdrawn”, Essex Police financial investigator Laura Mackenzie told the court.Prosecutor Andrew Bousfield added “despite pretending to be a billionaire, his most valuable asset at the time was selling sexual videos”.His main asset at the time was £60,000 in owning his house, the court heard.His OnlyFans subscriber count was said to have jumped 43% as a result of the video, from 1,061 when it was uploaded on November 8, 2020 to 1,883 by the time his OnlyFans account was deactivated on December 8.The footage was available to subscribers behind a $9.99(£7.84) paywall on his profile ‘@hollywoodbear’.There was said to have been a “jump up” in the $9.99 purchases when the footage started to “go viral” and Ms Harrison became aware of it.A total of 273 subscribers purchased the video and, following the standard 20% cut to OnlyFans, this earned him £1,650.98, the court heard.After the video was posted he adjusted his subscription fee, from a range of $7.50