JK Rowling received an $31 million payout from her publishing company last year amid the fallout from her transgender rows. The 57-year-old Harry Potter creator – said to be worth around $1 billion — got the windfall as a dividend for shares in her Pottermore company, the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday. Accounts seen by the Mail also showed Pottermore, which is JK’s digital publishing firm, made a pre-tax profit of £5.7 million on a turnover of $66 million in the financial year up to March 2022. JK said in December any attempts to “cancel” her over her views have...