The house that OnlyFans built: Inside British tech entrepreneur’s sprawling £2.4million six-bedroom mansion – after making his fortune selling adult content platform to reclusive billionaire

Striking and opulent, it is the epitome of so-called ‘property porn’, with six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, home cinema, gym and sauna, marble bar area and games room.

And this expression is particularly appropriate here; Because this is the mansion OnlyFans built.

This spacious 6,325sq ft villa was purchased by businessman and creator of the infamous adult-only website Tim Stokely for £2,425,000.

Located behind security gates on a private cul-de-sac in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, the property also boasts expensive grounds, including a half-acre manicured rear lawn complete with an assertive 200-year-old olive tree planted alongside a built-in barbecue and pizza oven.

Fluorescent modern art sculptures add color to the interior, as does the purple broadcloth pool table in the game room.

There’s a gleaming collection of supercars on the gravel road outside.

The 42-year-old son of a middle-class banker made a small fortune after creating OnlyFans in 2016 and made an even bigger fortune by selling it to US computer programmer Leonid Radvinsky, who died this week after a long battle with cancer.

While many were shocked by the death of OnlyFans’ owner, Tim felt more indebted to him than most.

This spacious six-bed 6,325sq ft villa was bought by Stokely for £2,425,000

The epitome of ‘property porn’: There is a purple pool table in the luxury home

The mastermind behind the controversial site credited with transforming the porn industry sold 75 percent of its majority shares to Radvinsky for an undisclosed amount in 2018 and remained CEO until he resigned in 2021.

Tim’s prolific career in pornography began when he “encountered the allure of fetish films” while a student at Anglia Ruskin University in the 2000s.

“While reviewing various UK dominatrix sites for potential job opportunities, I came across the need for a properly functioning financial domination site,” she told Reddit users in a forum in 2014.

Inspired by the potential fortune he could make from men willing to pay to be humiliated by women who wouldn’t look twice at them on the street, Tim founded the first dominatrix porn site, Glamworship, in 2011.

Two years later, he founded a second platform called Customs4U, where users could pay to request bespoke content from adult film stars.

At this point he was already calling himself a ‘British entrepreneur in the adult entertainment industry’.

But his family’s luck didn’t improve much until he came up with the idea for OnlyFans in 2016.

His father, Guy Stokely, an 82-year-old former investment banker who once worked at Barclays, loaned him £10,000 and said: ‘Tim, this will be the last time.’

It started with the first board meeting at the Institute of Directors in Pall Mall in November.

Only five ‘creatives’ signed up initially, each earning a few hundred pounds a month.

But it quickly evolved as minor celebrities and influencers with a huge presence on Instagram realized they could make big money by forcing their followers to pay for exclusive material on the site, such as saucy lingerie shots.

These ‘creators’ understood that the fastest and easiest way to gain new paying subscribers was to offer more explicit content, including full-blown porn.

By 2019, The New York Times was reporting that one of the original five, a glamorous model named Dannii Harwood from Neath in Wales, was earning £30,000 a month, with hundreds of male fans paying to access videos of her wandering around in her underwear or acting out sexual fantasies by posing as a nurse or dominatrix.

He described OnlyFans as ‘the hottest site in adult entertainment’ and said it would ‘change sex work forever’.

The entrepreneur regularly posts photos of his fleet of glittering supercars, including a £120,000 matte black Audi R8 and a specially built Range Rover from a customized car firm popular with Premier League footballers.

Stokely’s backyard at his estate includes a half-acre of manicured back lawn with an assertive 200-year-old olive tree.

The mastermind behind the controversial site credited with transforming the porn industry sold 75 percent of its majority shares to Radvinsky in 2018.

The Essex-born businessman often shares his opulent lifestyle with fans on social media

Miss Harwood, the daughter of a forklift operator, earned £1 million in early 2020.

As the site’s profile rose, it began to draw more and more mainstream celebrities under its seedy control.

Today, it’s used by the likes of former Atomic Kitten Kerry Katona, Love Island alum Megan Barton-Hanson, Towie star Lauren Goodger and Kate Moss’ younger sister Lottie.

Tim basked in his seedy success, flaunting all the luxuries OnlyFans had to offer him.

He regularly posts images of his fleet of glittering supercars on his social media accounts, including a £120,000 matte black Audi R8 and a bespoke Range Rover from a private car firm popular with Premier League footballers.

The Essex-born businessman, who grew up on a suburban mansion with his three siblings, showed off his turbocharged lifestyle on Instagram, posing in Savile Row suits and chunky wristwatches.

Other posts showed him drinking champagne on superyachts with scantily clad models off the coast of Ibiza or partying in New York and London’s most exclusive bars, clubs and restaurants.

She’s also given her followers a good look inside her luxury home, including when she showed off a bunch of Louis Vuitton packages at the base of her lavishly decorated tree a few Christmases ago.

But he wasn’t the only Stokely to benefit from the wealth, as it became something of a family affair, with many members of the tribe taking on senior roles in the online sex firm or associated businesses, making them Britain’s first pornography family.

His father, Guy, was a director of Fenix ​​International and owned the majority of the company’s shares with his son until it was sold to Radvinsky in 2018.

Deborah, 67, Guy’s wife and Tim’s mother, is not only a pearl-wearing grandmother but also a former director of both Fenix ​​International and Delivery Code Limited. The latter is a second internet company controlled by Guy and was acquired by OnlyFans in December in a deal that netted him and Tim’s brother Tom, 47, the second largest shareholder, £23.65 million.

Tim was also the chief operating officer of OnlyFans; Tim’s sister Sarah, 52, was the former manager of Delivery Code.

The only family member with no connections is the eldest sibling, Robert, 56, who works for an asset management company in the city of Sandaire.

Tim remained CEO of OnlyFans until December 2021, when he resigned and was replaced by Indian American businesswoman Amrapali Gan, who will be succeeded by Keily Blair in 2023.

After leaving OnlyFans behind, he co-founded the blockchain-based digital trading card platform Zoop in 2022.

OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinksy died this week at the age of 43 after a long battle with cancer

Stokely, the son of a middle-class banker, made a fortune creating OnlyFans in 2016

The site allows fans to collect, buy, sell and trade 3D cards of officially licensed celebrities and influencers.

In October 2022, it invested in FITFCK, a London-based dating app for fitness enthusiasts. The deal valued the company at £3 million.

Her latest venture, however, harkens back to the roots of the OnlyFans model, but with a less overtly sexual underpinning.

Tim launched Subs.com in May 2025, designed to have the features of all the top paid social media sites including YouTube, Patreon, and Cameo, but with TikTok’s swiping feature.

It operates as a web application that not only allows ‘creators’ to avoid in-app fees from the Apple and Google app stores, but also circumvent restrictions on adult content.