Disgraced Stephen Bear made £22,305 from Georgia Harrison’s secret sex tape, a court was told today.
The reality star, 33, was released last week from a 21-month sentence after sharing a secret sex tape on OnlyFans.
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Stephen Bear appears in court today Credit: w8media
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He played the sex tape of Georgia Harrison’s ex
Bear appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court today for a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing.
Judge Christopher Morgan agreed he earned £22,305.46 from the sex tape, but adjourned determining how much the TV star should pay back until Georgia exits Love Island All Stars.
Bear will have to return on March 4 to find out his fate and whether the amount will go straight to Georgia or go to the courts instead.
He indicated that he “doesn’t want a penny” to go to his ex-girlfriend.
It came after the court was told Bear allegedly only had “£60,000 in the house and a bit more”.
Prosecutor Andrew Bousfield added: “The money bounced around and moved around his family and was shared and moved from mother to brother to father.”
Bear was also accused of “shadow dancing” as the court was told he refused to provide any evidence of his earnings.
At the time the video was uploaded, he was “pretending to be a billionaire on his Twitter account” selling sexual content.
But financial detective Laura Mackenzie, from Essex Police’s Economic Crime Unit, said: “He wasn’t a billionaire at all, no. His bank account was overdrawn.”
She told the court Bear charged $9.99 (£7.95) to watch the video on his OnlyFans account, which had 1,061 subscribers.
He originally earned £1,650.98, but that figure rose to £22,305.06 when his subscribers grew by 822 in the month before Georgia found out about the clip.
Bear was previously told to pay £207,000 in damages to Georgia over the “large-scale” leak after it took him to the High Court in a separate case.
The payout is one of the highest ever handed down in a “serious breach” privacy case.
Judge Christopher Morgan earlier said Georgia’s civil ruling at the High Court had caused a “real complication.”
That’s because the former Towie star’s lawyers indicated they would like to go through the criminal justice system because Bear “ignored” all the correspondence.
Bear was earlier seen entering court with his dad in a black suit teamed with flashy £800 trainers and £243 sunglasses.
He also faced a separate hearing over the huge privacy fence surrounding his £600,000 home.
He was ordered to tear down a black metal fence after erecting it without permission and was today fined more than £5,000 for breaching planning regulations.
The CBB star was ordered to pay £207,000 to Georgia, who is currently in the Love Island All Stars villa, in July after she successfully sued him for civil damages in a separate case.
He was also banned from re-using the footage.
Teacher Victoria McCloud said at the time that Bear “flamed” Georgia by trying to convince her that she was responsible for sharing the clip.
The judge also condemned the disgraced star for using the leak as a springboard for his own porn career before he was jailed.
She added: “Pornography is actually consensual. It was consensual sex, but it certainly wasn’t consensual filming, and it was deeply violent.”
Georgia, who bravely waived her right to anonymity, said the leak was her “worst nightmare” and she felt “hurt and taken advantage of”.
She said her life had “changed forever” and said she had lost her “sense of self-respect and personal dignity”.
Georgia also revealed that she felt “completely and utterly taken advantage of, like he was hanging me naked on the wall for millions of people to see and there was nothing I could do about it.”
She begged Bear not to share the footage after he showed it to her because it would make her “very upset”.
They later played her a 20-minute clip and revealed that she was being offered for pay-per-view on OnlyFans.
Bear advertised the clip: “I can’t wait for her to see me fucking in the garden.”
He was previously found guilty of voyeurism and two counts of revealing private, sexual photographs and films.
The Ex on the Beach star recently claimed to be thin after getting out of prison as he begged fans for a date.
Bear once boasted that he made a fortune from various jobs and OnlyFans videos with his model ex-fiancée Jessica Smith.
In 2021, he even claimed to have earned “a million dollars” (£720,000) in just 12 hours after posting an explicit clip online.
But after his time in prison, it became clear that his lifestyle was far from the flashy image he portrayed on Instagram.
His eight companies crumbled around him – and none turned a profit.
Even the Rolls Royce that the disgraced star used to appear in court every day was rented, and his Rolex watches were fake.
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Bear was supported by his father Stephen Snr as he entered the court. Credit: w8media
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The reality star wore £243 sunglassesCredit: PA
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Bear was sentenced to 21 months in prison last MarchCredit: PA
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He was released from prison last weekCredit: Getty
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Georgia is currently in the Love Island All Stars villaCredit: ITV
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