- Hearing will determine how a lot of the revenue he made he must pay again
Stephen Bear has claimed he’s on Jobseeker’s Allowance and will solely pay Georgia Harrison £10-per-week as he confronted his ex at a court docket listening to over the £22,000 revenue he produced from the intercourse tape.
Bear, a self-proclaimed billionaire, stated when asking a few ‘cost plan’ on the listening to at Chelmsford Crown Court that ‘all I can afford is £10 every week or one thing’, the Sun experiences.
‘I’m on Job Centre’s allowance for the time being,’ Bear added after strolling into the court docket holding a Louis Vuitton Pochette Voyage fabric journey bag price round £1,000.
Bear returned to court docket for a confiscation listening to to determine how a lot of the £22,305.46 revenue he produced from the intercourse tape he must pay again.
His former girlfriend, The Only Way Is Essex star Georgia Harrison, was additionally current on the court docket along with her new boyfriend Anton Danyluk from Love Island.
Stephen Bear leaves Chelmsford Crown Court in Essex as we speak after the case was adjourned
The trial happened this week because the court docket had not been in a position to contact Ms Harrison whereas she was in South Africa
Bear made £22,300 revenue from his OnlyFollowers revenge pornography video
Bear walked out of jail two months in the past on January 14, having served simply over ten months for sharing a non-public movie of him having intercourse with Ms Harrison on the web site.
The winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2016 had been jailed on March 3 final yr following his conviction for voyeurism and two counts of exposing non-public sexual pictures and movies with intent to trigger misery.
Then on January 26 this yr, Bear was discovered on the court docket to have profited £22,305.46 from the CCTV footage of the 2 having intercourse in a backyard on August 2, 2020.
The listening to had been adjourned till as we speak after the court docket had not been in a position to contact Ms Harrison as a result of she was in South Africa on this yr’s Love Island: All Stars, the place former contests return to the present.
This morning the case confronted an adjournment once more – till Friday, when it is going to be decided whether or not the cash shall be paid to Ms Harrison or to the courts.
At the time of the video, Bear was posing as ‘a billionaire’ on his Twitter and YouTube accounts however was ‘in actual fact closely overdrawn’, Essex Police monetary investigator Laura Mackenzie instructed the court docket in January.
Prosecutor Andrew Bousfield added ‘regardless of pretending to be a billionaire, his Most worthy asset on the time was promoting sexual movies’.
His predominant asset on the time was £60,000 in proudly owning his home, the court docket heard.
His OnlyFollowers subscriber rely was stated to have jumped 43 per cent on account of the video, from 1,061 when it was uploaded on November 8, 2020 to 1,883 by the point his account was de-activated on December 8.
The footage was accessible to subscribers behind a $9.99 (£7.84) paywall on his profile ‘@hollywoodbear’.
There was stated to have been a ‘bounce up’ within the $9.99 purchases when the footage began ‘go viral’ and Ms Harrison turned conscious of it.
A complete of 273 subscribers bought the video and, following the usual 20 per cent lower to OnlyFollowers, this earned him £1,650.98, the court docket heard.
Bear wore a cross necklace, a gold watch and sun shades, and a pair of Nike Air Jordan 36 Flight School trainers
Bear walked out of jail two months in the past, having served simply over ten months for sharing a non-public movie of him having intercourse with Ms Harrison on-line
Stephen Bear holds a Louis Vuitton Pochette Voyage fabric journey bag at court docket in Essex as we speak
The pair returned to Love Island this yr, coming in fifth place. Ms Harrison and Danyluk have been beforehand islanders within the third and fifth seasons respectively
Stephen Bear leaves HMP Brixton on January 17 this yr. Bear was sentenced to 21 months in jail for voyeurism and two counts of exposing non-public sexual pictures or movies
A Crown Prosecution Service mugshot of Stephen Bear was launched in December 2022
Georgia Harrison and Stephen Bear after they have been courting. The incident occurred in 2020
A complete of 273 subscribers bought the video shared by Bear
Ms Harrison seemed stylish in a black shirt costume, knee-high boots and an extended coat
After the video was posted he adjusted his subscription price, from a spread of $7.50 (£5.89) to $50 (£39.28).
Through additional subscribers drawn in by the video, he was discovered to have earned £15,440.28, on prime of the £1,650.98 earned by means of the paywall, Ms Mackenzie instructed the court docket.
Calculations on how a lot Bear earned from the video have been debated through the listening to, and the choose famous that this was troubled by the convicted intercourse offender refusing take the stand and supply proof.
Judge Christopher Morgan accepted Ms Mackenzie’s valuation of his income, and acknowledged it was troublesome to infer exactly what every new subscriber sought after they joined his account after the video’s launch.
He stated: ‘He had, by the point the account had been arrange, filmed himself and Georgia Harrison, that materials being the topic of the legal fees that he confronted.
‘The defendant plainly supposed that that materials can be positioned onto his OnlyFollowers account.’
The OnlyFollowers listening to in January then moved instantly right into a second case relating to a fence round Bear’s property that Epping Forest District Council claims is simply too tall.
It was reiterated that Bear was unemployed and had no fast prospects of getting a job.
His defence barrister within the second listening to stated: ‘He does not have a automobile to his title – we ask for a modest monetary penalty, there appears to be little goal in hammering him with vital monetary penalty.
‘As of as we speak, there is not employment, and there is not a assured contract (of employment), however actually the impression is that he is devoted to creating a lawful skilled profession.’
Stephen Bear outdoors Chelmsford Crown Court this morning the place his listening to was adjourned
The ‘Mexican cartel’ tracksuit is out there on the mexicancarteldrip.com web site for £50 as we speak
A TikTok video posted on the @mexican.cartel.drip account of a person resembling Stephen Bear
TikTok posts have appeared since February 20 on an account known as ‘Mexican Cartel Drip’
The ‘Mexican cartel’ tracksuits are being marketed on the TikTok channel in a sequence of posts
Another put up on the TikTok account provides purchasers a ‘free ski masks with each order’
Judge Morgan acknowledged that he had ‘no sure or paid employment’ at current, however was happy Bear might pay the cash.
He was ordered to pay a £500 effective and £4,707.05 in prices in 56 days, and will face a seven-day jail sentence if he fails to pay the effective.
Bear arrived at Chelmsford Crown Court in Essex carrying a tracksuit saying ‘Mexican Cartel’. The tracksuit that’s being offered on an nameless TikTok account.
The purple and black tracksuit has been promoted in a sequence of TikTok movies, together with the phrase ‘prisonissuedrip.com’, since February 20, and hyperlinks to a web site known as ‘Mexican Cartel Drip’.
Some of the TikTok movies characteristic a person carrying the tracksuit with solely their eyes seen by means of a ski masks – and this seems to bear resemblance to Bear.
The posts embody phrases similar to ‘I do not hearken to individuals who say my goals are unattainable; I simply work to show them unsuitable’; ‘after they owe you cash and their dwelling their finest life on socials’; and ‘work so laborious to make your mum proud’.
This afternoon, the account posted photos of Bear outdoors court docket, saying: ‘Gassed to see the primary man Stephen Bear rockin’ our tracksuit. Link in bio to get yours.’
MailOnline has as we speak contacted the proprietor of the web site – the area for which was solely created on February 25 – for readability on any involvement from Bear within the vary.
The 34-year-old was additionally carrying a cross necklace, a gold watch and sun shades when he arrived at court- and held a Louis Vuitton Pochette Voyage fabric journey bag price round £1,000.
He additionally wore a pair of Nike Air Jordan 36 Flight School trainers which promote for as much as £150 on eBay.