Piper Rockelle: The 18-Year-Old OnlyFans Record Breaker

We first wrote about Piper Rockelle, a content creator with over 17 million TikTok followers, over four years ago, which was when Pink, the Grammy Award winning singer, opined that Piper, then-14-years-old and bikini-clad, was being exploited by Tiffany Smith, Piper's mother.

In the Page Six post, “14-year-old YouTuber responds to Pink’s criticism of her bikini photos" (September 1, 2021), Chelsea Hirsch quoted Pink:

“How many kids like Piper Rockelle are being exploited by their parents? And at what point do the rest of us say … ‘this isn’t okay for a 13 yr old to be posing in a bikini whilst her MOTHER takes the photo?!?!'”

However, Hirsch related that Piper responded to Pink by stating that Tiffany didn’t force her to do anything, and Piper said that posing in bikinis was the fulfillment of her teen dreams, which her mother simply helped her to fulfill.

“The first thing I want everyone to know is that my mom doesn’t make me do anything. Quite the opposite,” [Piper] Rockelle told TMZ Tuesday. “I’m a kid who had a dream, and my mom is amazing enough to help me live it out.”

“I don’t think Pink has ever seen one of my YouTube videos because if she did, she’d see it’s just my friends and me having fun and acting like ourselves,” she added. “The content we make is the kind of stuff anyone can watch.”

Piper Rockelle and the Squad

However, in the Teen Vogue piece “Piper Rockelle Turned 18. This Birthday, She Hopes, Will Change Everything” (August 21, 2025), Fortesa Latifi wrote that after the teen influencer group “Piper Rockelle and the Squad” was disbanded, which at its height was “pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars a month”, former members of the group accused Piper’s mother of “emotional, verbal, physical, and at times, sexual abuse.” Naturally, Piper and her mother denied the allegations, but “the lawsuit was settled in 2024 for a reported $1.85 million”.

In the People post “Tiffany Smith Allegedly Sent Underage Daughter Piper Rockelle's 'Stalker' Photos in Exchange for Gifts” (April 11, 2025), Zoey Lyttle related that in the Netflix docuseries Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing (2025), Heather Nichole, a former stylist for “Piper Rockelle and the Squad” and her daughter, Sophie Fergi, a former member the group, alleged that Piper’s mother stressed that Piper was “sluttier” than Sophie and, consequently, Piper needed “sluttier clothes” because, “She needs to show more.” Heather said,

"I would buy them cute little tracksuits or matching clothes. Like, [11- and 12-year-old] girl clothes," Nichole said of her shopping for [Sophie] Fergi and Rockelle, who were tweens at the time. "Tiffany would get so pissed and be like, 'Piper is not Sophie. She's sluttier. Get her sluttier clothes ... She needs to show more.'"

Unsurprisingly, Piper’s mother denied Heather’s accusations, but there were more. For example, Corinne Joy, a former member of “Piper Rockelle and the Squad,” alleged in the docuseries that Piper’s mother sold Piper’s underwear to old men, simply because, “[...] old men like to smell them.” Lyttle wrote:

Another ex-squad star, Corinne Joy, also now 17, and her mother Steevy Areeco described a disturbing interaction which allegedly took place between Smith [Piper’s mother] and the young girl [Corinne] [...]

"Corinne came home and asked me why old men like to smell underwear," the mom said in an interview for the exposé series [...] As [Corinne] Joy recalled on camera, she joined Smith to drop Rockelle off at an acting or singing lesson, then Smith and Joy went to the post office so the single parent could "drop off some things."

The young content creator continued, "[Smith] had a bag, and she pulled out what looked like Piper's underwear. I asked her, 'Why are you shipping those out?' And she told me that old men like to smell them. And I was like, 'What is she talking about?' "

And mothers of former members of “Piper Rockelle and the Squad” alleged that Piper’s mother exchanged exclusive pictures of then-10-year-old Piper with a man, and that Piper’s mother allegedly allowed Piper to flirt with the man on the phone in exchange for “extravagant gifts” like Gucci bags, hoverboards, and iPhones. Lyttle wrote:

In another part of the docuseries, former squad moms [...] detailed Smith's interactions with an anonymous fan. He was a man, but online he went by the name Megan and often sent extravagant gifts to then-10-year-old Rockelle and her mother.

Smith allegedly told Nichole, "You can get stuff too if you send him pictures [...]”

In the docuseries, Joy added that Smith would regularly tell her daughter that Megan was on the phone, and [Piper] Rockelle would join the call to say hi to her fan.

"Just by flirting and sending him photos, Tiffany got herself a Gucci bag from Megan, Piper got a Gucci bag, all these outlandish gifts," said Nichole. Fergi added that Megan sent brand new computers, cameras, camera lenses, microphones, hoverboards and iPhones. "Anything that you could think of that Piper wanted, she got from Megan," said Fergi.

Piper Rockelle Celebrated Turning 18

Once again, Piper and her mother denied all of the allegations that were alleged in the docuseries, but Piper, who turned 18 on August 21, 2025, is, unsurprisingly, still surrounded by controversy. 

About six months before she turned 18, Piper visited the Bop House, which is an OnlyFans content creator collective. Thereby, Piper teased that she would follow Sami Sheen (i.e., the daughter of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen), Danielle “Bhad Bhabie” Bregoli, and Tay “Lil Tay” Tian, whom all joined OnlyFans upon turning 18 and quickly earned millions. 

In the post on People, “YouTuber Piper Rockelle, 17, Responds to Backlash About Collabing with OnlyFans Creators at Bop House” (February 26, 2025), Victoria Edel posted: 

Piper Rockelle is reacting to online criticism after she visited TikTok’s Bop House.

The 17-year-old [...] recently received backlash after she visited Bop House and filmed videos with some of the residents. The women who live in the house (which has 3 million TikTok followers of its own) primarily make content for OnlyFans.

After posting a number of videos with the creators, [Piper] Rockelle, who describes herself online as an actress/dancer/singer, reacted to the online criticism in a TikTok posted on Feb. 24. Over footage of herself, she wrote, “How many times are they going to cry [about] me being in the bop house.” She then pretended to cry while some of the Bop House creators joined her to dance.

The Bop House and Piper (17) Collab 

Edel wrote that to promote Piper’s visit, Sophie Rain, the 20-year-old co-founder of the Bop House, posted a video with Piper. Of course, Piper posted a video of her visit with the young OnlyFans influencers as well. And Piper shared that she was "so grateful for the opportunity to collab with the Bop House creators." 

Of course, Piper’s mother isn’t the first or last mother to exploit her daughter’s power. Take Demi Moore, who, per Wikipedia, in 1995 was the world's highest-paid actress. Demi shared in her memoir, Inside Out, that when she was 15, her (alcoholic) mother paraded her in bars. Consequently, unable to resist the allure of a nymphet, an approximately 48-year-old wealthy Greek man paid Demi's mother $500 for sex with the future film star. Afterwards, the Greek asked Demi, "How does it feel to be whored out [by your mother] for $500?"

As for Piper, Sean James posted on Mediaite “Social Media Star Racks Up $1 Million in First Hour on OnlyFans — Soon After Turning 18” (Jan 1st, 2026) In the post, James reported that, on New Year’s Day 2026, which was about four months after Piper turned 18, she earned a record breaking $1.26 million in her first hour on OnlyFans! James wrote:

A social media star pulled in more than $1 million in her first hour on OnlyFans on New Year’s Day — a move that disturbed a number of people on social media because it came just months after she turned 18.

Piper Rockelle is a YouTube sensation who rocketed to fame on the Google-owned platform, where she now has more than 12 million subscribers [...]

But she is now earning big bucks on the platform synonymous with adult content.

Rockelle made $1.26 million according to her screenshot. Most of that came from subscriptions — about $900K — while nearly $300K came from messages, and another $63,000 came from tips. She netted more than a $1 million after OnlyFans took its cut.

On X, Piper celebrated making “$1,000,000 in less than an hour”, and she thanked her OnlyFans fans for changing her life. 

“We broke the record!!! $1,000,000 in less than an hour,” Rockelle celebrated on X. “You guys are the best thank you for changing my life.”

And Piper shared in her OnlyFans bio that “everyone” discouraged her from doing OnlyFans, but that it’s “time to take it ALL OFF”. And she added: “oh well here goes nothing…”

everyone told me not to do this but here we are… time to take it ALL OFF for you bbys 💖

if you told younger me i would be doing OF right now i would never believe you 😳 oh well here goes nothing…

After OnlyFans turned Sami Sheen, Bhad Bhabie, Lil Tay, and Piper into overnight teen millionaires, the pipeline from influencers slash content creators to (teen) sex workers will only continue.  

Jill Kargman’s BITTERSWEET SIXTEEN'S Salacious Prep Schoolers

Here’s the overview posted on Barnes & Noble for Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman’s Bittersweet Sixteen (HarperCollins, 2006):

Co-written by bestselling authors Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman, star of the Bravo series Odd Mom Out, Bittersweet Sixteen is a story of friendship, drama, and the hazards of turning sixteen.

A brand-new wardrobe from Saks, a private jet, and a red-carpet guest list: just your average Sweet Sixteen party.

At least it is for the teens who attend Tate, the posh all-girls high school in Manhattan. But Laura Finnegan—thrift store junkie and scholarship student at Tate—isn't like everyone else. And when her best friends Whitney and Sophie begin obsessing over their birthday bashes, tempers start to flare, Prada bags go flying, and guys are tossed around in vicious tug-of-war battles. Whose Sweet Sixteen will reign supreme?

It’s worth noting that, in addition to being a (former) Bravolebrity, Kargman, per the Wall Street Journal piece “Bullets and 'F-Bombs'” (October 11, 2011), is an Upper East Sider* who, like Gwyneth Paltrow, went to The Spence School, a tony all-girls prep school in Manhattan, which, per Harper Collins, is where Kargman met Karasyov; thus, Kargman and Karasyov may be the ideal co-authors for a novel like Bittersweet Sixteen. 

In preparation for a new book, From Gossip Girl to Pretty Little Liars: A Study of Age Gap Relationships in YA Novels, I’ve read a number of YA novels that are set in Manhattan prep schools, but the level of materialism in those novels ceases to amaze me. For example, here’s Bittersweet Sixteen’s opening paragraph:

There’s one thing you have to know. In the world of private schools, penthouses on Park Avenue, chauffeur-driven Bentleys, and $100-a-plate family dinners at Le Cirque, one thing reigns supreme as the pinnacle of a tenth-grade girl’s social calendar in New York: the almighty Sweet Sixteen birthday extravaganza. [Emphasis added]

The Plaza

As for the Sweet Sixteen extravaganzas, Sophie’s was held at The Plaza, where “Male models dressed as Tarzans swung from leafy vines [...] Thong-clad “tribal” waiters passed shish kebabs from flaming serving trays and little rawhide tents were scattered around the room”. 

Interestingly, Laura narrated that “most teens” used the little rawhide tents for “heavy petting sessions”. (Oxford Languages defined heav·y pet·ting (noun) as “erotic contact between two people involving stimulation of the genitals but stopping short of intercourse”.) The (teen) heavy petting that took place in the tents at Whitney’s Sweet Sixteen brings me to the next common theme slash motif that I’ve noted in YA novels that are set in Manhattan prep schools, which is self-sexualized (i.e., provocative) schoolgirls. 

For example, in Bittersweet Sixteen, Sophie was described as blond with “white teeth and very plump lips”. Like Gwyneth Paltrow and her classmates at Spence, Sophie tailored her schoolgirl uniform skirt “way above the knees”, and she pulled her “white oxford ever so tight around her suspiciously ample boobs”. (Was Laura implying by narrating “suspiciously ample” that Sophie may have had a (teen) boob job?)

Sophie didn’t understand why Tate’s headmistress didn’t approve of how tightly she wore her uniform shirt, which Sophie did to strategically accentuate her “boobs”.

“I can tell. The headmistress gave me daggers when she saw how tight my shirt was. Do they, like, want us to forget that we have boobs? Why don’t they just suit us up in nuns’ outfits and strap them down?” said Sophie.”

Even off campus, Sophie accentuated her boobs. For example, one day “buxom” Sophie wore a “too-tight V-neck black [Dolce & Gabbana] sweater.” In general, whether on or off campus, Sophie wore her clothes “short, tight, revealing, and [with] logos.” Consequently, Sophie was considered “a blond stick with knockers.” And despite Sophie being a mere 15-years-old, “She was sexy.” Consequently, “guys were going to lap [her] up with a spoon.” Whatever that sexual innuendo means.

Marquee

Like Gywneth, Sophie, and some of her classmates sneaked out of the house. Sometimes they sneaked out to meet up with schoolboys (e.g., at the San Gennaro festival), and sometimes they went to clubs too (e.g., Marquee). 

In reference to sneaking out of the house, Sophie exclaimed that parents, in general, are clueless, but that her parents, in particular, didn’t even realize that she was not a virgin. 

“Parents are clueless!” Sophie laughed. “Mine still think I’m a virgin!”

Sophie considered it a badge of honor that she wasn’t a virgin. So much so that she referred to Whitney as a “Waspy repressed virgin”. However, Karasyov and Kargman did not disclose exactly at what age Sophie began to have sex and to whom she lost her virginity. 

Another common theme slash motif that I’ve noted in YA novels that are set in Manhattan prep schools is age-gap relationships. Specifically, student-teacher relationships. For example, in Bittersweet Sixteen, Laura narrated that Sophie flirted with Mr. Everwood, whom Laura described as a “hottie teacher”. And Laura shared that there was a rumor on Tate’s campus that Mr. Everwood “had banged a senior”. Laura narrated:

Then, in the science lab, Whit’s eyebrow arched ever so slightly as Sophie giggled flirtatiously with Mr. Everwood, the hottie teacher (who, rumor had it, had banged a senior the year before). 

Note that Karasyov and Kargman strategically made the schoolgirl whom Mr. Everwood “banged” a senior (i.e., over 17-years-old), and I find it intriguing that Karasyov and Kargman used banged to describe the way the hottie teacher had sex with his student. 

(In addition to the rumor about the hottie teacher, there was a “whole scandal with the previous piano teacher.”)

Not only did Sophie flirt with her hot teacher, but she flirted with the “guy in the deli” and “the guy who plays the piano in chorus”, which was no big deal, because it was “Sophie’s nature to flirt. Laura said,

“I think it’s just in Sophie’s nature to flirt. I mean, come on, she flirts with the guy in the deli, she flirts with the guy who plays the piano in chorus, she’s just that way [...]” 

(Note that Sophie’s father was “like thirty years” older than her mother. )

Sophie had a “mini-soiree” at her UES residence, where Sophie and Kaitlin wore “[...] ubershort cutoff jean skirts. If they bent over, you could literally see their thong.” And after “several wine coolers” at Sophie’s, the prep schoolers played Spin the Bottle slash Three Minutes in Heaven, which reminded me of Julia Fox.

In Down the Drain (Simon & Schuster, 2023), Julia Fox’s memoir, she shared that when she was 11-years-old, she started 6th grade in the fall of 2001 at East Side Middle School on the UES, where, like Gywneth, she smoked a “cigarette here and there”, and she started “wearing dark lipstick to class”. (p. 28-29)

Ella, Julia’s straight-A student classmate, introduced Julia to marijuana. Julia wrote that before her first hit in Ella’s bedroom, her heart pounded through her Playboy tank top. [Emphasis added] Ella taught Julia how to “roll joints with a filter, ‘like the French’”. And Julia and Ella kissed each other “like the French”. Ella, who had “beautiful thick auburn hair and big green eyes”, insisted that their pre-teen girl-on-girl kissing was “practice for the real deal”, but Julia sensed that Ella liked kissing girls. Julia wrote:

“We play[ed] games like spin the bottle and seven minutes in heaven [i.e., in the closet kissing], and then we pretend[ed] like it didn’t happen.” 

Back to Sophie, ever the model friend, she volunteered to find Laura “a real man”, which was doable for the well-connected Sophie who had the contact information for a number of celebrity men. Although Sophie had access to Matt Damon, whom was 36 when Bittersweet Sixteen was published, Sophie settled on hooking Laura up with Elijah Wood, whom was 25 when Bittersweet Sixteen was published. 

“Yeah, as if,” I [i.e., Laura] said, dejected.

“You never know,” said Sophie. “It will be my mission to hook you up.”

The Pierre

In terms of over-the-top materialism, Whitney’s Sweet Sixteen was held in the ballroom of The Pierre, where “Peter Duchin’s famed orchestra” played, “David Copperfield performed”, “Oscar de la Renta toasted Brooke Astor”, and the “New York Times’ Bill Cunningham snapped away”.

Whitney, who “sampled her first potato galette with caviar at age seven”, was described as “pretty much perfect” with “buttery blond” hair, “blue-eyes”, and with “Waspy facial architecture”. The summer before her 10th grade at Tate, Whitney, in addition to beachside clambakes and tennis lessons, indulged in “heavy petting [i.e., erotic contact] with the Greystone Country Club lifeguard.” The lifeguard was recruited by “Abercrombie’s scouts”, he was “ripped and stuff” and, unsurprisingly, he was “older”. 

The exact age of Whitney’s lifeguard wasn’t shared with readers, but it’s safe to assume that he was approximately 20-years-old, because, per the Us Weekly piece “Celebs Who Were Abercrombie & Fitch Models Before They Were Famous” (April 22, 2022), Channing Tatum was 21 when he modeled for Abercrombie in 2001. 

As for Laura, she admitted that she had participated in “minor hookups and stuff”. For example, she “hung out” with a “guy” (i.e., not a boy) at camp, and they “kissed twice”. (It’s unclear if the kissing is considered part of the minor hookup or the stuff.) However, due to her “un-Barbie looks (brown hair, brown eyes, kinda pale, and oh yeah, small boobs), Laura narrated that she was “hardly schoolboy drool material.” Thereby, Laura implied that if she were a blond with large boobs, like Sophia, she would have participated in major hookups and stuff. 

Laura was the most studious in her friend group. She even took art class very seriously, where at Tate the art teacher provided the schoolgirls with “a male ‘model’ [...] posing buck naked” to draw at their easels. 

Laura shared that she participated in “minor hookups and stuff”, but after Sophie’s exclamation, Laura related that Whitney participated in a lot of hookups, and that Kaitlin, with her strawberry blond hair, Chanel quilted tote, and cashmere sweater-coat, was considered “the sluttiest” of the gang. However, although Kaitlin considered “giving it up to Max”,  she, Whitney, and Laura were still virgins.

I looked at Whitney, who appeared floored. Even with all her hookups, she had not gone there. I mean, Kaitlin, the sluttiest of our gang, had just started talking about maybe giving it up to Max [...]

But if Laura engaged in hookups, although minor, they were plural, and if Whitney participated in a lot of hookups, what in the world did Kaitlin do to be considered the sluttiest of the gang?

Lastly, make no mistake, Karasyov and Kargman are not misogynistic, because some of the schoolboys in Bittersweet Sixteen were provocative as well. For example, Bobby, with his “blond hair and blue eyes”, was referred to as a “male slut” who had “laid more pipe than Con Edison. Total player.” Consequently, Whitney opined, “Bobby is a total babe.” And despite being a prep schooler, Bobby kept a flask for doing shots. 

*Based on the New York Times piece “Mamdani’s Success Spotlights a Deepening Rupture Among U.S. Jews”, due to the election of Mayor Mamdani, Kargman may have left Manhattan.