Judge Kevin Enright described in his findings how the need to keep finding young women new to the porn industry drove the “deceptive, coercive and threatening behaviour” used by the defendants. A US judge has awarded $13m in damages to 22 women who were defrauded by the owners of GirlsDoPorn, a website specialising in “amateur”-style pornography. Several people linked to GirlsDoPorn were named in a federal indictment handed up in 2019, including the company’s co-owners, Matthew Isaac Wolfe and Michael James Pratt. “Their advertisements would say ‘College women sought for video shoots for $5,000.’ If you’re young and need help, it’s kind of a no-brainer. They had no idea.” “It’s vindication for the brave women who came forward after being manipulated and lied to by GirlsDoPorn,” Ed Chapin, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, told BuzzFeed News. “They were young and inexperienced, and their lives were changed because they were sucked in by this disgusting, fraudulent scheme.”
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After roughly two years of slow and sustained success, Michael Pratt decided to recruit his old friend, Matthew Wolfe, to help him work on the site in 2011. Wolfe decided to move to the U.S. and live near Pratt in San Diego, California. While Pratt handled a lot more of the executive decisions, Wolfe became involved in the day-to-day operations of GirlsDoPorn, filming the shoots in high-end hotel rooms in Southern California (in fact, it was Wolfe you heard interviewing the woman at the beginning of this episode). As if to add insult to injury, this video was released alongside a couple of snide comments from the owners of the site of the original adult film. The producers claim that Megan had only been paid $1,500 for her original appearance, and had asked to come back for a second, but had been rejected by the producers, who critiqued her performance as “frigid at best.” As a foster child, she didn’t have the same resources that other kids her age had.
- Last year, The New York Times exposed Pornhub as a platform for monetized rape, child trafficking sexual abuse, and other forms of nonconsensual image-based abuse.
- Michael Pratt was the original founder of the company, who served as the cameraman for the first few dozen episodes, which he started releasing in 2009.
- Authorities say Pratt posted clips of the women’s videos online as a method of attracting viewers to the website’s full-length videos, a scheme that allegedly netted the website’s owners more than $17 million in revenue.
- “Even when victims told Garcia how the scheme had devastated their lives, he showed no regard for their well-being.
- One post had over 45 million views before it was removed, according to The Verge.
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Maddocks is the incoming research director of the Center for Media at Risk at the University of Pennsylvania, which seeks to foster free and critical media practice and scholarship. One post had over 45 million views before it was removed, according to The Verge. Teens from New Jersey to California are using artificial intelligence to create and distribute fake nudes of their classmates. In Texas, a jury awarded a woman $1.2 billion in damages after her ex-boyfriend circulated intimate images of her online after their breakup. The website and its operators were also sued by 22 women featured in its videos and a San Diego judge awarded the women nearly $13 million at the end of a months-long civil trial.
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The man whom multiple young woman alleged coerced them into amateur porn shoots is on the lam from federal law enforcement, and all that running has only made cops want to dress him down even more, so to speak. Boden, who has been in the adult industry for 15 years and is helping spearhead consent and transparency initiatives, pointed out that legitimate producers and companies do not use false and misleading practices to recruit women like Girls Do Porn allegedly did. She told BuzzFeed News she hopes this case helps weed out other shady and “criminal” operations. Obtaining ownership rights under the court ruling is such a big deal because it’s nearly impossible to force sites like Pornhub to remove content once it is uploaded, attorneys and experts said, even if it had been created and published without a person’s consent. The decision comes about four years after the women first took action against the San Diego–based adult film site, which creates and advertises videos featuring young “amateur” teens and college students who are usually about 18 to 20 years old.
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In November 2015, an anonymous woman filed a police report in Newport Beach, California, after her video was posted on Girls Do Porn. A copy of the report obtained by The Appeal shows that she told police that she was raped by Garcia after filming her video. She said she had met Garcia that September after responding to a Craigslist ad for a modeling job that linked to a website called Begin Modeling. It wasn’t until she arrived at the shoot that she learned she would be filming porn.
Ruben Andre Garcia was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison for participating in a sex trafficking scheme called GirlsDoPorn. The tweet doesn’t name Pratt, but says that the man in the video is a New Zealander on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list; Pratt made it to the top 10 in September, with a $100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. According to news outlet El Español, Pratt was hiding in Madrid, and checked into a hotel in the center of the city on Wednesday using one of his many false identities. Weeks after they returned home, the videos were released in full on Pratt’s subscription site, and as clips on PornHub and other popular free porn platforms.
It became clear to this young woman that this was porn, which she had no interest in, despite the promise of good pay for very little work. She told police that after filming concluded on a subsequent photo and video shoot, Garcia pestered her with invasive questions. She said Garcia asked her to be his girlfriend, then eventually became irate and forcibly pushed her down onto a bed and sexually assaulted her. Days later, Garcia showed up at her boyfriend’s house and refused to leave until she threatened to call the police. The woman told her parents and her sister that she had been raped, and her parents encouraged her to tell the police. On Oct. 10, the operators of popular pornography website Girls Do Porn were charged with trafficking and conspiracy in a federal criminal complaint.
Pratt, who charged users a GirlsDoPorn subscription fee, made more than $17 million in revenue, according to the records. Pratt is accused of working with four people − Matthew Wolfe, Ruben Garcia, Valorie Moser, and Theodore Gyi − to “recruit young adult women to engage in commercial sex acts by fraud and coercion,” according to court documents. Michael Pratt, the owner of GirlsDoPorn, appeared in a federal court on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges filed in the Southern District of California on Oct. 10, 2019, according to a Justice Department news release.
If the women tried to leave, the group would either force the girls to “perform certain sex acts” or threaten them with lawsuits and flight cancelations, the documents continued. Throughout the alleged conspiracy, Pratt and the co-defendants recruited hundreds of young women from around the U.S. and Canada who were aspiring models, court records show. Once the young women responded to the group’s online ads, Pratt and the others would tell them that the jobs were for pornographic videos and not modeling gigs, according to court documents. Theodore Wilfred Gyi, 44, pleaded guilty to a federal count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking for his role in the website’s operations, which prosecutors say involved lying to women who appeared in the videos by telling them their scenes would only be distributed on DVDs to private customers.