NEED TO KNOW
- Abigail White, known as “Fake Barbie” on OnlyFans, fatally stabbed Bradley Lewis in 2022
- She claimed it wasn’t intentional. But jurors heard she’d threatened to kill him — and had even stabbed him — before
- White was sentenced to life in prison after a judge ruled her story wasn’t credible
Abigail White’s online persona was “Fake Barbie” on OnlyFans — but after stabbing her ex to death, there was nothing fake about the murder charge.
White, who reportedly earned at least $50,000 per year making adult content on the site, killed 22-year-old Bradley Lewis, the father of her three children, hours after he dumped her on March 25, 2022, per the BBC, Bristol Live and the Falmouth Packet.
The pair had a tumultuous relationship with cheating on both sides, with White alleging that Lewis was protective over the money she made selling adult content, per sentencing documents reviewed by PEOPLE.
A neighbor called police after hearing screams from the couple’s South Gloucestershire apartment — and White told responding officers that she “did not kill Bradley,” per the outlets.
Hours later, Lewis died in a nearby hospital. A later autopsy revealed that he had succumbed to a single stab wound that punctured his heart.
White later admitted in court that she had, in fact, stabbed her boyfriend — but said that she’d meant to “shock” and “scare” him, not kill him.
“We were arguing, and he was pushing me,” she said, per the BBC.
“I went into the kitchen, and I seen the knife on the side… Picked it up and walked towards Brad… Before I knew it, I had stabbed him… I picked up that knife in anger and upset, but I never meant to hurt him.”
But in voice notes she sent hours before the stabbing, she warned that she was “capable of killing him,” per the sentencing documents.
“Honestly, I have no limit when I get angry. I’m like, he said I need help with that because people are generally saying to me one of you are going to end up dead,” she said in the notes, per Bristol Live. “And I fully believe I am capable of killing him if he hurts me again. Or I am going to end up being in prison.”
Days earlier, Lewis called a friend begging for help, saying, “She’s trying to kill me, she’s trying to stab me, she keeps beating me up, she’s hurting me.”
She had also stabbed Lewis in the arm weeks before his death, according to Bristol Live.
On the day of the fatal attack, Lewis took White to a park to tell her that he wanted to end their relationship.
Later, they met friends in a pub, where White got into physical fights.
Jurors heard that she drank an entire bottle of wine alone before arriving at the bar. Then, she downed a Jägerbomb — a shot of Jägermeister dropped into a drink — two rum and cokes, and snorted cocaine before she and Lewis left the pub together, per the BBC.
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White said she was upset that Lewis didn’t stand up for her in a pub fight — and that her anger clouded her judgment. She denied murdering her boyfriend, instead admitting to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility, the BBC reported.
But a Bristol Crown Court judge convicted White of murder, sentencing her to life in prison with a minimum term of 18 years.
“In my judgment, on all the evidence that I have seen, at the time you stabbed him you clearly intended to kill him,” Mr. Justice Fraser wrote in his decision. “You had threatened to do this many times. Your evidence that you did not, and only wanted to shock him, was not credible.”
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