Feds Search for GirlsDoPorn Owner, Arraign Videographer on Sex Charges

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The filming of the scene would take place over the next several hours, with Jane Doe telling the individuals at the scene that she wasn’t comfortable with the various sexual acts they were telling her to perform. However, the people there – Garcia, who was in the process of brutalizing her on-camera, and Teddy, the cameraman that seemed to encourage it – told her that she had already agreed to be filmed and that they would take her payment away if she backed out now. During the course of the civil trial, Pratt, Garcia and Wolfe were criminally indicted for sex trafficking, among other charges. 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. In some instances, however, Pratt and his assistants allegedly locked women in rooms until the explicit videos were filmed and forced some women to commit sex acts that they initially declined to do, according to the FBI.

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The women were videotaped reading the agreement over distribution rights, but their lawyer said some of them were drunk at the time and didn’t understand what they were reading. Some of the women testified that although they agreed to perform sex on camera to earn money, including paying for college, the subsequent publicity ruined their lives and careers. This came after both Visa and Mastercard withdrew their services from Pornhub, and US lawmakers introduced a bill which, if passed, would allow sex-trafficking and revenge-porn victims to sue site hosts like Pornhub. “I was told this video went to a private viewer, and now it is all over the internet. I was lied to, and this isn’t okay,” another plaintiff said in a 2016 message to MindGeek. A third plaintiff told MindGeek “me and other girls are being brutally harassed.”

GirlsDoPorn Videographer Draws Federal Prison Sentence

• When she flew to San Diego in October 2013 with her friend who found a modeling ad on Craigslist, Jane Doe 7 believed she’d be paid $2,000 to do a nude photo shoot.
• But like most things in the world, the reality was more disappointing than the glossy images presented online.
• One woman stood before Garcia with sutures on her wrist from a recent attempt to end her life, flashing it to the judge as she spoke.
• A hearing has been set for Thursday to discuss whether the 41-year-old should be released on bail.
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Marshals Service; Spain’s Ministry of Justice; and law enforcement officials in Spain and Portugal; as well as the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, for their substantial assistance in securing the arrest and extradition of Pratt. Neither the account posting the deepfake GirlsDoPorn videos nor the site’s anonymous administrator’s replied to questions from WIRED.

Rollins says that Evie said no and that her medical exam is consistent with rape, but she forgets to tell Benson that Daniel may have recorded the assault. Just as Benson is about to send Rollins to find the tape, Matt and Daniel’s lawyer, Buchanan, stops by the precinct and gives them a flash drive of the video Daniel recorded and a second flash drive that contains a dozen other adult videos starring Evie. In most cases, there are many different kinds of medications to treat the same condition.

According to an FBI press release, Girls Do Porn owners Michael Pratt, along with chief videographer Matthew Wolfe, administrative assistant Valerie Moser, and male performer Ruben “Andre” Garcia, were charged with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. Garcia, Pratt, and Wolfe were also charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion. If found guilty, they face a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine. Pratt victimized hundreds of young women, federal prosecutors said, including at least one girl under the age of 18. Investigators said that victims were forced into performing nonconsensual sexual acts, and when they wanted their videos removed from the websites, Pratt and his partners threatened and intimidated them. “Laila is a one-woman wrecking crew, with two babies in her arms and a keyboard,” said Mike Bowe, a Manhattan-based attorney who represents 34 women accusing Pornhub of sex trafficking and child pornography in an ongoing federal racketeering lawsuit out of California filed in 2021.

This scandal would be the website’s first foray into the headlines, but far from the last, with the owners and producers making international news just a few years later when it was revealed that this wasn’t just a porn website run by a couple of perverted guys from New Zealand… But was an international criminal conspiracy, full of several people willing to carry out a litany of crimes – including sexual trafficking, conspiracy, and the production of child pornography – in order to illegally profit off of hundreds of young women. The way images spread widely on porn sites and social media caused untold trauma to these women’s lives.

A hearing has been set for Thursday to discuss whether the 41-year-old should be released on bail. Twenty-two women have won $12.75 million in a years-long lawsuit alleging a predatory scheme by GirlsDoPorn, a site that hosts purportedly one-time pornographic videos featuring “amateur” college-age women and teen girls. The women provided evidence that the company lured them into shoots under false pretenses, intimidated and coerced them into performing, and shared the images online without their consent. They sued a total of 13 affiliated businesses and individuals, including owner Michael Pratt, actor Andre Garcia, and videographer Matthew Wolfe.

The references were paid a fee for each victim they attempted to recruit, with additional compensation for victims who agreed to film a video. Garcia admitted that he and co-defendant Michael Pratt were the lead recruiters for GDP and GDT. Garcia and Pratt created Craigslist advertisements, along with fake websites and email addresses consistent with the websites to cause their victims to believe that they were applying to work asclothed models. Only after the victims responded to the advertisements would Garcia and Pratt disclose that they were actually seeking women for pornographic video shoots.

Michael Pratt, the main culprit of the trafficking scheme, fled the country and is a wanted fugitive. And Pornhub executives who are accused of distributing and profiting from the victims’ trauma have yet to face civil or criminal consequences. GirlsDoPorn’s victims were doxxed, harassed and humiliated, and they felt they had a full-time job they never asked for – trying to get the videos of their trafficking removed from the internet. At the time of the filing of this criminal complaint about one year ago (2019), authorities were still in the process of reaching out to the several hundreds of women affected by this scheme – as well as figuring out the various entities that money from this scheme had been funneled through. However, as this lawsuit continued to fall into place within the court system, it became apparent that the labyrinth of production companies and shell corporations established by Michael Pratt had become a minefield for his opponents’ lawyers. A look into the finances of GirlsDoPorn showed that they had once been owned by a parent company called GT Group Ltd., which was a corporation listed in the Panama Papers as a tax haven for several illicit organizations.