IT HAS made millions and become a global phenomenon – but OnlyFans only got off the ground thanks to a last-ditch loan from a long-suffering dad.

Five years after launching a BDSM and fetish website, Timothy Stokely was loaned £10,000 by his banker dad Guy to launch OnlyFans.

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Guy reportedly told him: “Tim, this is going to be the last one.”

Last chance saloon proved a prime motivator. 

OnlyFans is now one of the world’s biggest online enterprises and Tim, 39, has become rich thanks to his salacious start-up.

He often shares snaps of his lavish lifestyle on Instagram with pictures of supercars and yachts.

Millionaire Tim, once dubbed “the king of homemade porn”, parties in New York and London’s most exclusive bars, clubs and restaurants. 

It’s not too shabby when he stays home either — as he lives in a sprawling six-bedroom mansion in Bishop’s Stortford, Herts, with  a gym, sauna, home cinema and huge driveway for his fleet of flash motors. 

OnlyFans was launched in November 2016 as a site for creators to upload content, such as pictures and videos, for a subscription fee, with the platform taking a 20 per cent cut on all cash made.

By January 2017 it had 100,000 users, swelling to a million  nine months later and ten million by July 2019.

Meteoric rise

But it was the pandemic that really boosted its…