They were an OnlyFans couple. Then they broke up

Every day, millions of people log on to OnlyFans for a peek inside someone’s bedroom. There, both amateurs and professional adult content creators get naked, share fetish content and have sex for legions of paying subscribers. Many performers make some serious money, turning their private sex lives into lucrative businesses.

But what happens when an OnlyFans couple breaks up?

That’s what one former Gilbert couple is now learning the hard way. For more than three years starting in 2020, Parker Skidmore and Sydney Jennings jointly operated an OnlyFans account under Jennings’ stage name, Allison Parker. There, they’d post scads of intimate and explicit content. Sometimes Jennings performed solo and sometimes Skidmore joined in. In other instances, other performers participated.

But in late 2023, after roughly a decade of dating and several years of performing together, the couple split. The cure for many breakups may be a carousing night on the town plus the healing passage of time, but the split between Skidmore and Jennings has become much more complicated. Jennings is still performing on the OnlyFans account, which Skidmore says the pair jointly owns. Now, in a custody battle emblematic of the sex-on-the-internet age, Skidmore is suing for his half.

On Oct. 21, Skidmore filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court seeking damages of at least $300,000. He claims the OnlyFans account @AlliParker22 is joint property and that Jennings has improperly cut him off from the business. He accuses Jennings of breach of fiduciary duty and for unjust enrichment, and is asking the court to require Jennings to open the books (if not reopen her heart) for him.

Skidmore declined to comment on the lawsuit through his attorney, James Cool. Phoenix New Times attempted to reach Jennings through several avenues but was unsuccessful, and she has yet to respond to the complaint in court. However, one lawyer who specializes in OnlyFans cases — who is not involved with this particular dispute — says the issues it highlights are becoming more common.

“It basically becomes a divorce,” said New York attorney Alex Lonstein, who fashions himself as the OnlyFans Lawyer on TikTok. “Even though they weren’t married, they have all of these interwined assets together. A lot of the time, the parties share their lives together. They lived together for a long time.”

That certainly is the case with Skidmore and Jennings. According to Skidmore’s complaint, the pair had been dating for about seven years — and, per court records, had at least one child together — before creating the OnlyFans account in 2020. Jennings served as the star, with Skidmore occasionally taking on a co-starring role. Skidmore’s complaint says he also handled the backend production (presumably no pun intended) and promoted the account on other social media platforms.

Business was booming, according to Skidmore’s complaint. The account has generated more than $5 million for the couple, who are in their early 30s. It currently has 2,000 posts and more than 1,100 “fans,” or subscribers. During its peak, Skidmore claims, the account generated between $80,000 and $150,000 in monthly revenue. It was so successful that the couple was able to purchase a Gilbert home worth more than $1.1 million through their shared LLC, S & P Networks, according to Maricopa County Assessor’s Office records.

‘It gets very messy’

But in November 20203, the couple broke up. Still, they shared the business, which is jointly owned by their individual LLCs. Initially, Skidmore remained involved in the account, but Parker began slowly excluding him from “day-to-day business operations,” his complaint says. She stopped the couple’s LLC from distributing money to Skidmore within two months. By March 2024, Parker had completely excluded Skidmore from the business by changing the bank account linked to OnlyFans payouts and restricting his access to the account, according to his complaint.

Skidmore continued to make appearances in Parker’s content after they broke up, but his last appearance seems to have been in early February, two months before his access was cut entirely. The OnlyFans account never mentioned that Skidmore was no longer involved in the business, and the account remains active under Parker’s control. Skidmore says he asked for his access to be reinstated, with no success.

Lonstein, whose firm is aptly dubbed OnlyFirm, says that kind of drama isn’t uncommon among OnlyFans performers. Couples working together is common as it’s “safer than randoms,” he said. But when a couple parts ways, it becomes a conflict both personally and professionally. He said it’s important for the couple to establish a business contract outlining who owns what — though Skidmore and Jennings appear to have done so — before turning private escapades into a money-making venture.

“It’s a relationship conversation,” Lonstein said. “Nobody wants to have that conversation, but when you’re in this business, you’re mixing business with your relationship. So it gets very messy.” 

In the aftermath of their split, Skidmore claims the business has suffered a significant loss due to his lack of involvement. Skidmore claims the account also hasn’t been raking in as much cash in his absence — its monthly revenues significantly plummeted by as much as 60-70% or “even more than that,” the lawsuit says. That’s not surprising, the suit claims, because Skidmore’s “backend and promotional efforts were indispensable drivers of the company’s success.”

Whether that’s true remains to be seen, though Lonstein says many similar cases don’t reach trial. “It’s going to probably be in the best interest of everybody here to settle this case,” the lawyer said. Alternatively, Jennings could also take what Lonstein calls the “nuclear option” and completely stop making content or create a new account, trusting her subscribers to follow her there.

That would seem to be a viable option for Jennings, giving her other social media accounts. Under her stage name, Jennings has a whopping 5.8 million followers on her main Instagram account, with another 187,000 on her secondary account. She also has another 766,000 followers on her X account, which she created in April 2014. However, it’s not clear that doing so would completely prevent Skidmore from claiming ownership of any new OnlyFans account.

“The biggest leverage point is you can’t force somebody to create content,” he said. “If somebody wants to completely move the account and make a new one, then that other person’s SOL. You’re going to take a hit, but it gets you free and clear.”