Bergemar Bernard (Bernard Bergemar)

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2020: Bernard Bergemar is the owner of the pornwebsite Pornhub

In December, 2020 it became known that the little-known businessman Bernard Bergemar is the owner of the world's largest pornwebsite Pornhub.

Journalists of Financial Times (FT) as a result of the made investigation found out that Bergemar controls MindGeek company (Pornhub owns) through complex network of affiliated firms in which the businessman possesses a considerable share.

The edition notes that earlier the name of Bergemar practically did not emerge on the Internet, and the identity of the main owner of MindGeek was known only to the small group of people from among top managers of the company. In 2010 the entrepreneur appeared in news as the director of the pornwebsite RedTube afterwards purchased by MindGeek. Bergemar to journalists refused comments.

The little-known businessman Bernard Bergemar is the owner of the world's largest pornwebsite Pornhub

Before Feras Antun and David Tasillo who redeemed online resources from their founder Fabian Tillman and integrated in MindGeek in 2013 were mentioned as heads of MindGeek.

As it is specified in the publication FT, among shareholders of MindGeek, in addition to anonymous family trusts and the dummy companies, only their names are entered. Earlier media called into question existence of other managers of MindGeek whose names were mentioned in press releases of the company.

MindGeek pays "daughters" millions of dollars as assignments for licensing fees. Before one of them at the company the debt about $200 million was formed that exceeds a group profit for the last few years.

The interest of media in structure of owners and the scheme of financing of the pornwebsite arose against the background of the scandal connected with the publication of videos with violence over minors. The resource reacted to scandal with sharp change of policy of moderation, having removed videos of doubtful origin. From more than 13 million videos on the website there were only 3 million^[1]

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