Stephen Michael Cohen is an American who gained notoriety after acquiring control of the domain name Sex.com in 1995. He also has citizenship in Mexico, Israel and in the principality of Monaco. He was later implicated in involvement in running the controversial peer-to-peer service EarthStation 5. Cohen was born in Los Angeles and attended Van Nuys High School in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles. Cohen obtained his Juris Doctor degree at the University of Southern California Law School in 1972.