OnlyFans Model ‘Fake Barbie’ Sentenced to Life for murder

On March 25, 2022, OnlyFans creator Abigail White—who went by the moniker “Fake Barbie”—fatally stabbed her ex-boyfriend, 22-year-old Bradley Lewis, in the kitchen of their South Gloucestershire apartment, mere hours after he ended their tumultuous relationship. White, who reportedly earned upwards of $50,000 per year from adult content on the platform, initially insisted to arriving officers that she “did not kill Bradley,” even as Lewis lay dying from a single puncture wound to his heart at a nearby hospital.

Court documents and witness testimony painted a picture of a volatile relationship marred by mutual infidelity and escalating violence. Neighbors told police they heard White screaming and saw Lewis collapse to the floor, while previously he had called a friend in distress, saying she was “trying to kill me, she keeps beating me up” .

Weeks before the fatal attack, White had even stabbed Lewis in the arm, though neither party called the authorities at that time.

At trial, White claimed she grabbed the kitchen knife in a moment of anger to “shock” and “scare” Lewis, insisting she never intended to hurt him. “We were arguing, and he was pushing me,” she testified. “I saw the knife…Picked it up…Before I knew it, I had stabbed him… I never meant to hurt him”.

Yet days before the murder, in voice memos sent to friends, she warned she was “fully capable of killing him” if he hurt her again and acknowledged she might “end up in prison” .

Prosecutors at Bristol Crown Court detailed how on the day of the attack, Lewis took White to a local park to end their relationship before the pair visited a pub. There, White allegedly downed an entire bottle of wine, a Jägerbomb, two rum-and-cokes, and snorted cocaine—escalating her emotional volatility before the fatal confrontation.

Defense counsel argued diminished responsibility, pointing to White’s substance use and emotional distress amid a recent miscarriage and claims of Lewis’s infidelity.

After a two-week trial, the jury rejected the manslaughter plea by reason of diminished responsibility and found White guilty of murder. In his ruling, Mr. Justice Fraser noted that White had threatened Lewis multiple times and that her assertion of a mere attempt to scare him was “not credible.” He concluded that at the moment of the stabbing, she “clearly intended to kill him”.

Sentencing White to life imprisonment, the judge ordered she serve a minimum of 18 years behind bars before becoming eligible for parole. White’s three children—fathered by Lewis—will grow up without their father, and the case has reignited debates around the risks of social media stardom, intimate partner violence, and the limits of diminished responsibility defenses in British courts.