Stephen Bear has been ordered to pay £22,305 over earnings he made out of a intercourse tape he posted of his former companion Georgia Harrison.
The previous Superstar Huge Brother winner was launched from jail earlier this yr having served 10-and-a-half months for posting on his OnlyFans web page intimate footage of him and Harrison, a former The Solely Means Is Essex star, with out consent.
Bear, 34, has now been ordered to pay the £22,305 that prosecutors stated he earned from illegally sharing a intercourse tape throughout the Proceeds of Crime Act listening to at Chelmsford Crown Court docket. He faces 9 months in jail if he doesn’t pay the cash again inside three months.
He has additionally been ordered to pay £5,000 in compensation to Love Island star Harrison.
Bear gave a thumbs as much as reporters as he arrived at courtroom on Friday, in sun shades, a pink shirt and a pair of slippers.
The previous actuality TV star, who was discovered responsible of voyeurism and of two counts of revealing non-public sexual images and movies with intent to trigger misery, was jailed in March 2023.
Georgia Harrison (proper) arriving on the confiscation listening to. Pic: PA
Andrew Bousfield, prosecuting at Friday’s listening to, stated a restraint order was in place on the £60,000 proceeds from the sale of Bear’s home.
He stated that cash from a confiscation order made by the courtroom below the Proceeds of Crime Act goes to the Treasury and to police and police charities.
The barrister invited the courtroom to make a compensation order to Harrison as well as.
Harrison stated that following a Excessive Court docket case she was awarded £207,900 damages, and £213,515 in prices to her no-win no-fee solicitors, however that Bear had paid “not one penny” of it.
Bear interjected, from the safe dock of the courtroom: “You should not need to pay in the event you’re harmless.”
Harrison, standing on the witness field, stated: “It bought confirmed, actually, in a courtroom.”
She stated she had been suggested it may value her extra to implement the Excessive Court docket ruling than she may anticipate to get again.
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Bear makes a gesture after leaving courtroom. Pic: PA
Mr Bousfield stated: “Actuality TV stars aren’t rolling in cash to fund the most costly litigation on the planet on the Excessive Court docket.”
Harrison stated Bear “offered his home from jail – he offered his home to an organization referred to as We Purchase Any Home for properly below market worth”.
She stated he “has by no means proven a scrap of regret for what he is achieved or apologised”.
Bear shouted from the dock: “I’ve bought a restraining order.”
Harrison stated of the non-public video being shared on-line: “For a very long time it fully ruined me.”
She added: “One factor that may at all times actually have an effect on me is the actual fact if sooner or later I wish to have kids that footage will at all times be on the market.”
She stated she had additionally misplaced work because of the incident.
Georgia Harrison offers a press release exterior Chelmsford Crown Court docket
Proceedings have been briefly interrupted when three younger males walked into the courtroom whereas Harrison was within the witness field, and sat beside the dock.
Bear stated he didn’t know them they usually left and stated “free Stephen Bear” after the choose addressed them.
Talking exterior courtroom, Harrison stated: “No one has the appropriate to earn cash from any crime however to earn a lot from image-based sexual abuse is sort of frankly abhorrent.
“I feel it is necessary that anybody who commits this terrible crime ought to be made to present any cash they made again to the sufferer and likewise the judicial system, particularly after a profitable conviction.”
She stated she would give among the cash to charities “who’ve supported me all through this ordeal”.
