Belle Delphine’s OnlyFans Earnings: The Screenshot, the Podcast Numbers and the Bathwater Money

Belle Delphine did something most famous OnlyFans creators never do: she showed a journalist a number instead of only saying one. That single screenshot, from November 2020, is still the best evidence of what her account made. Everything after it is her own words in podcasts and posts, and one of her most famous figures, the bathwater money, exists in two versions that do not agree.

This is one of our sourced creator profiles, alongside Iggy Azalea, Mia Khalifa, Camilla Araujo and Bonnie Blue. Same rules: every number carries the outlet and the date in the sentence that uses it, every source was opened first-hand, and anything we could not check stays out. We are an agency writing about the industry we sell into, so read it with that in mind.

How she got to OnlyFans

Before OnlyFans she already had a business. Vice reported on 26 June 2020 that she had supported herself through private Snapchat and Patreon, and she was best known for selling “Gamer Girl Bathwater” at $30 a container in July 2019, a stunt Complex covered on 16 July 2019; Capital FM reported on 23 November 2020 that Instagram had removed her account that July and YouTube had just terminated her channel.

She came back from about seven months offline with a YouTube video called “I’M BACK” and an OnlyFans page at $35 a month, as Capital FM reported on 18 June 2020. Insider wrote on 27 January 2021 that she had announced that June she planned to make a “big bag”. That is the context for every number below: a creator with millions of followers elsewhere, a high subscription price, and a launch timed for maximum attention.

Every figure, and where it came from

• November 2020: $1.2 million in one month. She shared a screenshot of her November earnings with Insider, which reported on 27 January 2021 that it “showed she made $1.2 million that month”. The piece does not say whether that is gross or net. Shown to a journalist.
• December 2020: “$1 mil a month”. On Logan Paul’s Impaulsive, as CinemaBlend reported on 22 December 2020: “at the moment it’s like $1 mil a month”, and “it was $2 mil in one withdrawal.” Spoken.
• February 2024: about £5 million from one video. On The Louis Theroux Podcast, she said her first adult video in 2020 made “around five million” pounds, in LADbible’s paraphrase of 20 February 2024. UNILAD reported the same claim the same day as $6.3 million, which looks like a currency conversion rather than a second figure. Spoken.
• February 2024: “around £1 million per month”. JOE and NationalWorld both wrote on 20 February 2024 that she now makes about £1 million a month, but as their own summary of the Theroux interview, not as a quote; LADbible’s write-up of the same episode has no monthly figure. Unclear whether she said it.

The 2020 numbers hang together. A screenshot showing $1.2 million for November and a podcast line of “$1 mil a month” a few weeks later describe the same account at the same time. The $2 million withdrawal is a different kind of number: a payout of money that had built up over a period she did not state, not a month’s income.

The 2024 figures are harder to pin down. “Around five million” for a single video is her claim, made four years after the fact, with no screenshot. And the “£1 million a month” line may be a summary of something she said or a reporter’s shorthand; we could not tell from the outlets we opened, so treat it as unconfirmed.

The bathwater money: two numbers that do not match

JOE reported on 20 February 2024 that she told Louis Theroux she sold 600 jars, which at $30 each JOE worked out at $18,000. Three months later her own account was very different. In a post reported by Dazed on 21 May 2024 she wrote: “PayPal, without any warning closed my account and took the $90,000 that I earned from selling my bathwater.” Dazed’s piece of 21 May 2024 added that PayPal had fined her $2,500 per violation and that the $90,000 “was returned to her this week”, five years on.

$18,000 and $90,000 cannot both be the revenue of the same sale. Complex reported on 16 July 2019 that there was a second run in larger containers, which might explain part of the gap, but no outlet we found reconciles the two figures. What is consistent is the business lesson she drew herself, quoted by Dazed on 21 May 2024 from Business Insider: “If I didn’t have any [social media] following, they wouldn’t have given my money back.” Payment processors can freeze an adult creator’s money for years, and an ordinary creator has no audience to shame them into reversing it.

How she ran it

Her model was price and timing. CinemaBlend noted on 22 December 2020 that her $35 a month compared with $4.99 for Cardi B and $10 for Bella Thorne, and she launched with maximum press. She was open about the timing of her biggest release: “I needed all eyes on me then to really push this video,” she told Theroux, as LADbible reported on 20 February 2024. The same LADbible report of 20 February 2024 says the video paid for her “dream house”.

She was just as clear about how unusual her position was. To Insider, in the piece of 27 January 2021, she said she planned to “milk” the career and then perhaps move to Twitch, and added: “For every one successful girl you see, there are thousands of other girls working really hard and not earning anything.” That sentence is more useful to a new creator than any of her figures.

None of her public numbers splits subscriptions from messages and tips, so we cannot say how her income was made up. On the accounts we manage, roughly 74% of net revenue comes from messages; an account built on a famous name and a high price is the exception to that pattern, not the template.

What to take from this if you are a creator

• A screenshot shown to a journalist beats a podcast line. Her November 2020 figure was checked by Insider; most later numbers were not. Weight them accordingly.
• A withdrawal is not a month. “$2 mil in one withdrawal” tells you what built up in the balance, not what came in over thirty days.
• When two numbers disagree, say so. $18,000 or $90,000 for the bathwater: both are reported, they cannot both be revenue, and nobody has squared them.
• Your payment rails are a risk. PayPal held her money for five years. Withdraw regularly, and never sell adult products through a processor whose rules forbid them.

To read any creator’s income claim with the same questions, see how to check someone’s OnlyFans earnings. For the realistic spread, see what OnlyFans creators really make.

Questions creators ask

How much does Belle Delphine make on OnlyFans?

The one figure she showed is $1.2 million for November 2020, in a screenshot Insider reported on in January 2021. On Impaulsive in December 2020 she said about $1 million a month. Later monthly figures are reported but not shown.

Did Belle Delphine really make $1.2 million in a month?

For November 2020, yes, according to the screenshot she shared with Insider. The report does not say whether the figure is before or after the platform's 20% cut, and it covers a single month.

How much did Belle Delphine make from her bathwater?

The figures disagree. JOE worked out $18,000 from the 600 jars she mentioned to Louis Theroux in February 2024. In May 2024 she said PayPal had taken the $90,000 she earned from the sale, money Dazed reported was later returned.

How much did Belle Delphine make from her first adult video?

She told Louis Theroux in February 2024 it made around £5 million, which some outlets converted to $6.3 million. It is her claim; no screenshot has been shown.

What is Belle Delphine’s net worth?

There is no documented figure. Net-worth websites publish estimates without a source, and her own numbers are earnings for specific periods, not net worth, so we do not repeat them.