OnlyFans star Sophie Rain is celebrating after Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback lost the GOP primary.
Rain, 23, of Tampa, Fla., told The Post on Wednesday that she was “very happy to be keeping my money” after Fishback, 31, was crushed in Tuesday’s Republican primary. The far-right former investor had vowed to slap a 50 percent “Sin Tax” on OnlyFans creators’ earnings, claiming the mechanism would “disincentivize and deter” the adult content industry.
“I never believed voters were going to support singling out women and punishing them for doing completely legal work, so yes, I’m very happy to be keeping my money,” Rain told The Post Wednesday.
Fishback “wanted to take 50% of my income because he didn’t approve of how I make my living, and now he got about 10% of the vote,” added Rain, who says she has earned more than $100 million from OnlyFans since 2023 and called the tax proposal “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard” back in January.
The 31-year-old Fishback, a far-right former investor, claimed the tax was a mechanism to “disincentivize and deter” the porn biz – and said the proposal would not only target OnlyFans creators, but also the “sick men online” who buy their lurid wares.
“I don’t want young women who could otherwise be mothers raising families, rearing children – I don’t want them to be selling their bodies to sick men online,” Fishback told NXR Studios in January.
“And I don’t want young, impressionable men who are straight from Christ … to be told and drawn into lust, and have their entire brain rewired,” he continued.
Fishback called out Rain specifically, claiming in an X post that she would owe the state $42 million in taxes under his proposal.
Rain, who also co-founded and is a member of the Bop House – a Florida compound that hosts a gaggle of adult stars who say they net a combined $15 million per month – said Wednesday that she’s “never had a problem with paying [her] fair share” and already shells out millions in taxes per month.
“What I had a problem with was a politician deciding that people like me deserved a special ‘sin tax’ because he personally disapproved of our careers,” she said.
“If you want to raise teachers’ salaries or pay for kids’ lunches, I’m all for that – but come up with a serious policy instead of using women and content creators as a political punching bag,” Rain added.
In a January interview with People, Rain had previously blasted the proposal as misguided and sexist. “Why are you taxing the creator, why not the subscriber?! By that logic, this makes no sense,” she said. “Florida is OnlyFans central. You are just going to drive them out of the state, then what?”
In the viral moment that sparked the months-long feud, Fishback unveiled his “Sin Tax” proposal in January, framing it as a moral crusade against adult content and explicitly naming Rain as a prime target. The former hedge fund analyst, who launched his long-shot gubernatorial bid in mid-November, had pitched the tax as a way to fund public education while punishing what he called “sick men online” and the creators who serve them. Rain quickly fired back across multiple interviews and social platforms, arguing that she already paid millions in taxes and that Fishback’s plan amounted to “selective punishment” of working women. The clash became a recurring flashpoint in the Republican primary, with Fishback leaning into the controversy as a signature issue while Rain used her massive platform to rally opposition.
Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, endorsed by President Trump, cruised to the gubernatorial nomination with 47.8% of the vote, easily defeating 10 other candidates, led by Lt. Gov. Jay Collins (25.2%).
Fishback came in a distant third place, with 10.5% of the vote, followed by former state House Speaker Paul Renner (8.5%).
Fishback did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Rain has built a massive following through her candid discussions of her earnings and lifestyle, including a nearly $200,000 Coachella trip in April that brought the entire Bop House collective to Indio, California. “All my life I have wanted to go to Coachella,” she said in a statement to People at the time. “I never had the chance simply because my family was not rich enough and we lived in poverty. So I really wanted to make this moment special and go all out!”
Donalds will face former Republican David Jolly, who leads the Democratic field, in the November general election.