When talking about the salaries received by great sports figures, it is often said that they are disproportionate and out of touch with the reality of an immense percentage of the population of this planet. This has not changed in many years and, in fact, the phenomenon has increased with the globalization of many activities, and sports are certainly no exception.
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One of the greatest sports stars in history is Michael Jordan, the great basketball player born in Brooklyn, but raised in North Carolina and who made history with the Chicago Bulls in the NBA. It is estimated that during his career and after his retirement, Jordan managed to amass a fortune of $3.5 billion, making him the richest former athlete in the world.
Jordan, a legend on and off the court
During his time with the Chicago team, Jordan earned a total of $33.4 million in the 1998 season, the highest salary he had as an active sportsman, which serves as context to analyze another reality and establish a parameter based on the most lucrative activity today outside the world of entertainment or sport: a platform known as OnlyFans.
It turns out that the platform’s top star, a young girl known as Sophie Rain, has broken that barrier and of course the internet by revealing what her annual earnings are on this digital service in which she offers explicit and basically sexual content: “I’m grateful for a year here,” Sophie Rain wrote in a recent post on her X profile in which she revealed her earnings over this period.
Millionaire at 20 years old and without doing ‘almost anything’
The 20-year-old claimed that her annual earnings amount to $43.4 million, an amount that exceeds the highest single-season salary of the legendary basketball player, considered a milestone not only in sports, but also in the business world.
Much of Sophie Rain’s earnings on the platform are from subscription and pay-per-view fees, which in just one year has increased to 11 million subscribers, not counting her huge fan base on other networks such as Instagram, where she has 5.2 million and X, where she has 2.5 million more.
A series of figures that have already made all the figures in sport and other fields think, who today do not disdain these platforms that pay them dividends, although they are infinitely smaller than those of Sophie Rain.
