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48-year-old Melissa Williams of Colorado had served in law enforcement for 28 years, spending the last 11 years with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office.
During her time working as a lieutenant at a detention center, Williams owned and operated an account on “Only Fans” account.
Her subscribers were given an option to pay a monthly fee to see Williams nude or watch her sexual encounters with her husband.
For 18 months, the account existed without any problems. Williams said she posted the content when she was off-duty and never in uniform.
She also never identified herself as a law enforcement officer on the platform.
Nonetheless, a complaint was filed and Williams faced the possibility of undergoing an internal investigation.
As a result, Williams felt forced to retire with a $30,000 separation agreement.
“I was a really good cop. I was a really good cop and I was a really good leader,” she said.
“I did not leave out of shame and I did not leave out of embarrassment,” she added.
She still operates the OnlyFans page.
"I did not leave out of shame." Former @ArapahoeSO retires with $30K separation agreement after agency learns she has an OnlyFans page. Melissa Williams tells @kdvr why she quit rather than face an internal affairs investigation. #kdvr at 9pm pic.twitter.com/KRaTMuJ0Kv
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“I think some people viewed as what I did for fun, as being a sex worker, but I’m the same as someone else’s neighbor, their friend, mom, daughter. I’m still the same person I was for the 18 months the page existed and nobody knew,” Williams said.
She still operates the OnlyFans page, where subscribers pay a monthly fee to see Williams nude or watch her sexual encounters with her husband. Williams said she posted the content when she was off-duty, was never in uniform in the content she posted and never identified herself as a law enforcement officer.
“A lot of the material my husband and I shared is stuff we’d taken in our private sex life over the years,” Williams, a mother of two, said according to the New York Post. “I was working up to 60-hour weeks, so mostly my husband ran the page and shared my pictures, and then sometimes we’d have fun dressing me up and taking photos especially to share.”
— Advertisement — The complaint was filed on Aug. 5, describing that Williams’ “poor judgment was a discredit to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office.”
“I was like, this doesn’t even affect the person that reported it. It doesn’t affect my work, it doesn’t affect my employees, it doesn’t affect the community,” Williams said.
The sheriff’s office investigated the complaint and internal documents obtained by KDVR said, “The website contained pictures of Lt. Williams posing for pictures clearly showing her face and her genitals, one or more of the photos appear to have been taken in a very public location.”
