Paige Spiranac donates her skins winnings from Internet Invitational to Cody Franke’s family

Paige Spiranac quietly donated all of her day-two skins winnings from the Internet Invitational — “about $15,000 or $16,000 each” — directly to Cody ‘Beef’ Franke’s family, Francis Ellis has revealed. The gesture, disclosed on Ellis’ podcast this week, came without fanfare and was never intended to be made public.

Franke, who helped win the $1 million grand prize alongside Ellis and Brad Dalke, sadly passed away earlier this autumn.

Fellow competitor Roger Steele is also said to have donated his skins winnings to Franke’s foundation.

Ellis said Spiranac simply instructed the Barstool payroll team to redirect her winnings. 

“She didn’t ask anyone to tell, she didn’t do that, she didn’t expect that to come out,” explained Ellis on a podcast. 

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“She just told that person ‘send it to Beef’s family.’” 

He added: “That’s a significant amount of money, and I’m impressed that she did that… especially impressed that it would never have gotten out.”

The disclosure comes after Spiranac endured a wave of abuse over a rules infraction caught on camera during the YouTube event. 

The influencer said last week she had received “tens of thousands” of death threats following accusations she “cheated” by pressing down grass in front of Malosi Togisala’s ball.

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“The last week and a half is probably the worst hate I’ve ever received in the 10 years of me doing this,” said Spiranac. 

“I’m talking tens of thousands of death threats… to the point where we were discussing me having to potentially get a restraining order.”

Spiranac stepped back from social media for her wellbeing and reiterated she did not know the action was illegal. 

“I would never intentionally cheat… to blatantly cheat with that many people around, that many cameras around would be insane,” she said.

Spiranac later thanked those who had reached out: “It’s been an interesting week and a half… all the support really means so much to me.”

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