Drea de Matteo says OnlyFans cleared a $75,000 home lien within 75 minutes of her first post
A single bikini photo paid off a $75,000 lien on Drea de Matteo's home within 75 minutes of going live on OnlyFans, the actress said during a Wednesday appearance on Jamie Kennedy's "Hate to Break It to Ya" podcast. De…
Key takeaways
- Drea de Matteo says a single bikini photo on OnlyFans cleared a $75,000 lien on her home within 75 minutes of her first post.
- De Matteo, 54, known for playing Adriana La Cerva on "The Sopranos," launched her OnlyFans account in August 2023 at $15 per month.
- She told Jamie Kennedy she "sometimes might have" earned around $100,000 a month on the platform at its peak.
- The $75,000 covered only the lien, not the underlying mortgage, which she still carries on the property.
- Financial pressure came from a COVID-19 mortgage forbearance, later foreclosure notices, and her agent dropping her after she declined vaccine-required roles.
A single bikini photo paid off a $75,000 lien on Drea de Matteo's home within 75 minutes of going live on OnlyFans, the actress said during a Wednesday appearance on Jamie Kennedy's "Hate to Break It to Ya" podcast. De Matteo, 54 and best known for her role as Adriana La Cerva on "The Sopranos," launched the subscription account in August 2023 at $15 per month after a foreclosure process left her with the lien she could not otherwise clear.
The numbers are specific. De Matteo told Kennedy she "sometimes might have" made around $100,000 a month on the platform at its peak. She offered that figure with a hedge; Kennedy had asked directly. She confirmed she still carries a mortgage on the property and that the $75,000 covered the lien only, not the underlying debt.
The financial pressure arrived in stages. De Matteo said she took a mortgage forbearance during the COVID-19 pandemic and later received foreclosure notices when payments resumed. Her agent dropped her after she declined roles requiring COVID-19 vaccination, narrowing her income further. She told Kennedy she had never been particularly career-driven and returned to acting only when she needed money for the mortgage, adding that her "Sopranos" earnings never made her as financially secure as the public assumed.
From placeholder to primary income
De Matteo originally set up the OnlyFans account as a podcast placeholder, she told Kennedy, before her financial situation redirected it. Income from the platform later funded two ventures she named directly: her clothing line ULTRAFREE and the ULTRAFREE podcast. She described the account as a "political statement" against Hollywood, a way to earn outside the studio system after losing work over her opposition to vaccine mandates.
She also addressed a 2024 story that circulated after an appearance on a podcast hosted by former "Sopranos" co-stars Robert Iler and Jamie-Lynn Sigler. Reports that her then-13-year-old son regularly edited her OnlyFans content stemmed, she told Kennedy, from a single photo he edited of her dressed as a superhero. She said her son "has nothing to do with the OnlyFans page" in any ongoing capacity and that the coverage put a strain on their relationship after classmates teased him over the reports.
De Matteo told Kennedy she views her subscriber base as fans of the Adriana La Cerva character from "The Sopranos" more than followers of her broader work, which also includes "Sons of Anarchy."
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