Feras Antoon (Arabic: فراس انطون, romanized: Firas Antūn; born 29 June 1975) is a Syrian-Canadian-French[1][2] pornographer, and the co-owner and CEO of Aylo, the world's largest pornography company, which runs sites including Pornhub and RedTube.
[6] Further expansion led to sites including YouPorn, before all the businesses were sold to German businessman Fabian Thylmann for an estimated $140 million.
"[7] Following his extradition from Belgium to Germany in 2012, on charges of tax evasion, Fabian Thylmann, the owner of Manwin (which changed its name to MindGeek in 2013 and Aylo in 2023) sold the company to its two senior managers, Antoon and COO David Tassillo, for a reported €73 million.
[14] Antoon's Can$19-million dollar mansion in the 'Mafia Row' neighbourhood of Montreal burnt down in a suspected arson on 26 April 2021.
[15][16] Ten months later, he made unsubstantiated claims that someone incited by "extremist religious groups" from the "darkest corners of the internet" was responsible for the destruction.