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| Stephen Bear to pay £27k over illegal sex tape of Georgia Harrison | Stephen Bear to pay £27k over illegal sex tape of Georgia Harrison |
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| Stephen Bear is estimated to have made £22,305 in profit after uploading a sex tape without his ex-partner's consent | Stephen Bear is estimated to have made £22,305 in profit after uploading a sex tape without his ex-partner's consent |
| Convicted sex offender Stephen Bear has been ordered to pay the £22,305 that prosecutors said he earned from illegally sharing a sex tape. | Convicted sex offender Stephen Bear has been ordered to pay the £22,305 that prosecutors said he earned from illegally sharing a sex tape. |
| Bear, 34, was jailed for 21 months last year after uploading footage of himself and Love Island personality Georgia Harrison to OnlyFans. | Bear, 34, was jailed for 21 months last year after uploading footage of himself and Love Island personality Georgia Harrison to OnlyFans. |
| He was released from prison in January. | |
| During a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court, Bear was also ordered to pay £5,000 in compensation to Ms Harrison. | |
| The court heard Bear, who served 10 and a half months of his sentence, made extensive profits from subscribers after uploading the video. | |
| The £22,305 will be paid to HM Treasury and distributed to police charities. | |
| Bear served 10-and-a-half months in custody of his 21-month prison term | |
| The original video that featured Ms Harrison made £1,650.98, but Bear earned considerably more after his number of subscribers increased, the court heard previously. | |
| 'Violated' | |
| During the Proceeds of Crime hearing, Ms Harrison told the court: "I had to live in fear that this was going to come out and my family were going to know about it. | |
| "It was just like the worst feeling you can ever possibly imagine. I felt violated, I felt embarrassed - I hated myself for a really long time." | |
| Judge Christopher Morgan said the impact of the video was "devastating" and that Ms Harrison's life was "changed forever" as a result of its publication. | |
| He said the victim had lost money due to Bear's criminal conduct, including losing work from brands and having to pay legal fees. | |
| Georgia Harrison made a speech outside the court after the hearing | |
| Bear's OnlyFans account had 1,061 subscribers when he uploaded the video on 8 November 2020, the judge was previously told. | |
| This number had increased by 822 a month after the video, which could be viewed for $9.99 (£7.95), was published. | |
| Prosecutor Andrew Bousfield told an earlier hearing: "At this time [he uploaded the video] Mr Bear was pretending to be a billionaire on his Twitter account. His most valuable asset at that time was selling sex videos." | |
| Financial investigator Laura Mackenzie added the defendant's bank account was overdrawn. | |
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