Stéphane Pacaud

Stéphane Pacaud (born 17 September 1978 in Creusot) is a French computer scientist known for owning pornographic websites such as XVideos and XNXX, studios like Bang Bros, magazines like Penthouse, and companies like Private Media Group. As of 2025, Pacaud owns 100% of the shares of WGCZ Holding, which holds numerous subsidiary companies within the pornography industry.

According to Challenges magazine, Pacaud's fortune is estimated at 500 million euros, placing him among the top 500 richest French people. He reportedly lived in Manila in 2008 and around Zurich in 2012 that behind "a complex network of companies," his WGCZ group was the true owner of the French company Jacquie et Michel (J&M), contrary to what the company had stated at the time.