They say it’s hard to make a quick buck these days, but Courtney Tillia can happily nix that notion.
While most 9-to-5ers are living hand to mouth amid the unyielding inflation crisis, the ex-special education teacher-turned-OnlyFans model is making money hand over fist, creating X-rated content for strangers — including diehards of the New York Knicks.
“A subscriber just sent me a Patrick Ewing jersey, asking me to twerk in it, wearing nothing else, then to enjoy some solo fun before stripping it off,” Tillia, 39, exclusively told The Post of the explicit, albeit lucrative, self-pleasuring proposition.
Although 63-year-old Ewing — who played with the Knicks for 15 seasons, from 1985 until 2000 — isn’t sweating it out on the court alongside the likes of current ballers Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns, the icon’s legacy is still, evidently, quite arousing.
“It was a custom request, meaning the content was made specifically for [the Ewing fan],” she added, withholding the New Yorker’s name was for privacy. “I charge $150 for every five minutes of a custom video, and this was a 10-minute clip, so I made $300.”
It’s nice work if you can get it.
And now, as the Knicks, holding a 2-0 series lead, lace up to matchup against the San Antonio Spurs for Game 3 of the NBA Finals Monday night, Tillia’s making gains while the getting is good.
The Big Apple’s chances of winning its first Championship since 1973 haven’t been this good in decades.
Ewing and the team fell short of glory in 1994, losing to the Houston Rockets. The boys in orange and blue also endured an equally upsetting defeat at the hands of the Spurs in 1999 after five ill-fated face-offs.
But with the Larry O’Brien Championship trophy squarely in Gotham’s reach this year, Knicks super fans, lovable loons who’ve spent upwards of $20,000 on tickets this season, and OnlyFans sirens such as Tillia alike are praying for a miracle.
“I love New York, and I love New York fans, and so I was happy to do any Knicks-related content,” said the model, a wife and mother of four, from Los Angeles. “The happier my fans are when their team is winning, the better [the business] for me.”
Beyond making bank via saucy Knicks-inspired stunts, Tillia’s raking in riches from Cameo, an online platform that allows subscribers to purchase personalized video messages from their favorite celebrities — with demands she recite NYC’s newly viral fandom chant for pay.
“I’m getting a lot of Cameo requests to say that ‘My mayor Muslim, my bagels Jewish, my Christian Dior, Knicks in 4’ phrase,” Tillia laughed. “For those, I’m fully clothed, my rate is $45 for 30 seconds. So, the money has been great.”
Making hundreds in minutes has become the new normal for Tillia since she walked away from the classroom in 2016. With the full support of husband Nick, the brunette has gone from earning less than $36,000 a year at the chalkboard to pocketing those same figures or more each month as a virtual vixen, specializing in “naughty teacher,” “MILF” and now “Knicks” erotica online.
“My income as a teacher [was] next to nothing. I couldn’t even pay my student loans,” she told The Post. “I remember getting a $1,500 bill when my paycheck was barely $2,000. I was, like, ‘How do you live like this?’”
Even after getting a master’s degree, hoping the postgraduate credential would command a massive pay increase, the stunner only made an extra $20 per check. After calling it quits, Tillia began selling sexy images on Snapchat before officially joining OnlyFans in 2019.
“It’s been life-changing,” said the pinup with more than 1.1 million followers across cyberspace. “As a teacher, I’d filed bankruptcy; we had the car repossessed.”
“Now, I’ve moved my family from Arizona to LA, where the cost of living is extremely high, and we can buy anything that we want,” she added, rattling off, “cars, vacations, trips to Manhattan to see Broadway plays, anything my kids need.”
For quick peeks at her freaky material, the mom, whose brood — including two older stepchildren — ranges in age from 12 to 25, charges a flat subscription rate of $14. Admirers with bigger appetites, however, pay handsome surcharges for videos, customized content or NSFW photos.
But the bombshell breadwinner doesn’t selfishly squander the dough.
“My family and I launched a nonprofit dog rescue called Minnie’s Mutts, which is being funded by my OnlyFans, and we have saved 73 dogs from being euthanized in the last year,” said Tillia, grateful to her fanbase, especially those no-nonsense Knicks extremists, funding her dream life.
“I love the Knicks energy and the excitement in New York City right now as a whole,” the frequent visitor gushed. “I love seeing fans pour into the streets to watch the games projected on the side of buildings and bodegas.
“And I love that some of those fans love me, too,” Tillia chuckled. “I am here for all of it.”
