Brianna Coppage, Megan Gaither, Samantha Peer, Kristin MacDonald and Courtney Tillia illustrated in front of a classroom. (Facebook, Instagram, Michael Loccisano/Getty Images / Fox News)
Kristin MacDonald, a former special needs teaching assistant in Canada, was fired from her job in June after refusing to take down her OnlyFans account after it was discovered by school administrators. MacDonald went by “Ava James” on OnlyFans.
“I was advised to deactivate all Ava James social media platforms immediately, including [Instagram], TikTok and OnlyFans, or possibly be terminated,” MacDonald told Fox News Digital. “I did not comply.”
Kristin MacDonald, a teaching assistant in School District 43, was fired after the district advised her to delete social media for “Ava James,” her OnlyFans persona she maintains to make money on the side. (Instagram/@a_v_a_james88 / Fox News)
The school district’s contract with James included a clause regarding “off-duty conduct being ‘appropriate,’” which MacDonald believed was “up for individual interpretation.”
In the school’s reasoning for firing her, administrators said she posted content that “involves the sexualization of the school environment” and also disparaged the district in news interviews.
Samantha Peer, a former middle school teacher in Arizona, resigned after students came across her OnlyFans account. Some of the content was allegedly being recorded in a classroom setting.
“I created content at the beginning of the summer in order to earn extra money on the side to help pay for our basic necessities that our salaries were no longer meeting,” Peer said in a video on Facebook. “I chose an anonymous name as well as blocking the entire state of Arizona on my OnlyFans so that it wasn’t accessible to anyone living in the state.”
Samantha Peer no longer works at Thunderbolt Middle School in Lake Havasu, Ariz., after students came across her OnlyFans account, where she posted pornographic material. (Facebook / Fox News)
Peer made videos under the alias “Khloe Karter” on OnlyFans and was initially placed on leave Oct. 24, 2022.
The Lake Havasu City Police Department in Arizona said the teacher might have recorded some of the content in a classroom setting.
“Additionally, it was reported that some of the pornographic image(s) of Mrs. Peer depicted her in a classroom-type setting, presumably on Thunderbolt School Property. The superintendent of schools was advised of the report, and it was learned at that time that they had also received the same information that was initially forwarded to the police department,” police said.
The school district wrote to parents in an email that “the images depicted did not happen during the school day and the person depicted no longer works for LHUSD.”
Courtney Tillia, a former Arizona high school teacher, also turned to OnlyFans after ditching her teaching job in 2018.
“Back when I was a teacher, my family really struggled financially,” Tillia told the New York Post, “OnlyFans allows me financial freedom. I can provide everything my family needs and more.”
Social Media personality Courtney Tillia attends “The Pink Party” at The Godfrey Hotel Hollywood July 6, 2022, in Los Angeles. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images / Getty Images)
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She told TMZ that she has made over a million dollars from her three OnlyFans accounts and has been able to provide more for her family.
FOX Business’ Peter Aitken, Andrew Mark Miller and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
