She sold her bathwater — PayPal took her profits

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Photo of Belle Delphine, an adult content creator, sitting in a bathtub in a bathing suit holding up a controller and a jar of her bathwater.

Image: X / Belle Delphine

Belle Delphine, the woman who went viral in 2019 for selling jars of her bathwater, revealed earlier this month that the stunt earned her $90K in profits. In a thread on X, the adult content creator and model also explained that because of PayPal, the payment processing system she used for the sale, she never saw a dime of that money.

“PayPal, without any warning closed my PayPal account and took the $90,000 that I earned from selling my bathwater,” Belle Delphine wrote.

Image: X / Belle Delphine

Now, according to a report from Business Insider, PayPal has reversed this decision, with the company returning to Belle Delphine all the proceeds from the bathwater bonanza five years later.

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