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A Colorado sheriff’s deputy retired with a $30,000 separation settlement as a substitute of going through an inner investigation over an OnlyFans web page she owns. 

“I used to be a very good cop. I used to be a very good cop and I used to be a very good chief,” Melissa Williams, 48, advised KDVR’s Downside Solvers workforce. 

Williams was in regulation enforcement for 28 years, spending the final 11 years with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Workplace and most just lately served as a lieutenant at a detention heart. 

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She had the OnlyFans account for 18 months with none issues, however then coworkers discovered and a feminine officer in a close-by police division filed a criticism, KDVR reported. 

“I feel some individuals considered as what I did for enjoyable, as being a intercourse employee, however I’m the identical as another person’s neighbor, their good friend, mother, daughter. I’m nonetheless the identical individual I used to be for the 18 months the web page existed and no person knew,” Williams stated.

Photograph of former Colorado sheriff’s deputy Melissa Williams (Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Workplace Fb)
(Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Workplace Fb)

She nonetheless operates the OnlyFans web page, the place subscribers pay a month-to-month payment to see Williams nude or watch her sexual encounters along with her husband. Williams stated she posted the content material when she was off-duty, was by no means in uniform within the content material she posted and by no means recognized herself as a regulation enforcement officer. 

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“A number of the fabric my husband and I shared is stuff we’d taken in our personal intercourse life over time,” Williams, a mom of two, stated in response to the New York Publish. “I used to be working as much as 60-hour weeks, so largely my husband ran the web page and shared my photos, after which generally we’d have enjoyable dressing me up and taking pictures particularly to share.”

The criticism was filed on Aug. 5, describing that Williams’ “poor judgment was a discredit to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Workplace.”

“I used to be like, this doesn’t even have an effect on the individual that reported it. It doesn’t have an effect on my work, it doesn’t have an effect on my workers, it doesn’t have an effect on the group,” Williams stated.

The sheriff’s workplace investigated the criticism and inner paperwork obtained by KDVR stated, “The web site contained photos of Lt. Williams posing for photos clearly displaying her face and her genitals, a number of of the pictures seem to have been taken in a really public location.”

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A spokesman for the sheriff advised KDVR that Williams ought to have gotten permission for the secondary job, however Williams pushed again that it didn’t happen to her to ask for permission. 

The OnlyFans logo on a laptop computer arranged in New York, U.S., on Thursday, June 17, 2021. OnlyFans, a site where celebrities and adult-film stars charge admirers for access to videos and photos, is in talks to raise new funding at a company valuation of more than $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The OnlyFans emblem on a laptop computer laptop organized in New York, U.S., on Thursday, June 17, 2021. OnlyFans, a website the place celebrities and adult-film stars cost admirers for entry to movies and pictures, is in talks to boost new funding at an organization valuation of greater than $1 billion, in response to individuals with information of the matter. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs
(Gabby Jones/Bloomberg)

“No, as a result of it actually doesn’t generate employment earnings and there are numerous people all through the metro space who’ve what could possibly be thought of secondary employment nevertheless it isn’t one thing that will get claimed or will get reported,” she stated.

She pulls in about $4,000 a month from the account, in response to the New York Publish. 

She took the $30,000 separation and launch settlement in November, retiring from the pressure partly as a result of she believes she would have been fired if she didn’t. 

“I didn’t miss of disgrace and I didn’t miss of embarrassment for the OnlyFans web page. I left as a result of it was the appropriate factor for myself and my household, and truthfully, the OnlyFans piece was only one a part of it,” Williams stated, in response to KDVR. 

“I liked my job — however how might I am going again to work in an setting like that?” stated Williams, the New York Publish reported. “It was exhausting being a girl within the pressure. Folks have all the time been jealous of me as a result of I’m profitable, engaging and assured.”

The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Workplace stated in a remark to KDVR that Williams was not fired or pressured out, and that she “sought to barter a severance and elected to resign her employment” earlier than the investigation was accomplished.

“Ms. Williams was not fired, nor was she pressured to depart the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Workplace. Ms. Williams’ allegations seem like nothing greater than an effort to fabricate a ‘newsworthy’ story to drive visitors to her web site,” the sheriff’s workplace stated.