The 37-year-old San Diego resident pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to commit stalking on the same day prosecutors filed the charge. As part of his plea, in which he admitted to filming about 100 videos for the GirlsDoPorn site and related sites, he also admitted that he was hired to make the harassment video by GirlsDoPorn’s founder, Michael James Pratt, and the site’s operator, Matthew Isaac Wolfe. Attorney’s Office and the civil lawsuit both alleged that young women who applied online for modeling jobs as far back as 2015 were initially deceived about the true nature of the work — to appear in porn videos. Most were told the video production would take around 30 minutes, when in reality, they typically lasted for several hours.
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Even after severing its partnership with GirlsDoPorn, MindGeek continues to profit from Plaintiffs’ videos to this day. As of December 12, 2020, MindGeek still hosts victims’ videos on its websites, including Plaintiffs. The URLs for the victims’ videos contain affiliate tails and are surrounded by hyperlink advertisements that, if clicked, redirect the visitors to various paysites. Most of the hyperlink advertisements on these victim’s videos redirect the visitor to MindGeek’s paysite, Others redirect the visitor to third-party paysites, such as JerkMate.com. Forty Jane Does who say they were victims of GirlsDoPorn sued Pornhub yesterday for at least $2 million each, alleging that Pornhub hosted videos despite knowing that “GirlsDoPorn was a sex trafficking venture.” Pratt gave her a list of names and numbers and showed her how to use a spoof program to conceal her actual phone number when making calls.
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- “This defendant was a key player in a despicable fraud that has devastated the victims,” said U.S.
- He ordered GirlsDoPorn’s founder Pratt, his business partner Wolfe, and porn actor Garcia to hand over all images, videos, likenesses, and copyrights and to take “active steps” to remove them from circulation.
- Also in October 2015, Jane Doe 17 said she was tagged in an Instagram post advertising the pornographic video she had filmed after responding to a Craigslist ad, which she thought no one would ever see.
Then he walked them inside his home, where they saw an older man inside playing video games, the complaint says. MindGeek’s defense against the lawsuit could cite Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which gives legal immunity to online platforms that host user-submitted content. But the lawsuit argues that the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) enacted in 2018 would override a Section 230 defense. Another one of the Jane Doe plaintiffs in January 2016 “submitted a content removal request to MindGeek, begging to have her video removed because of the lack of consent and harassment she was under,” the complaint said.
The judge awarded each woman $300,000 to $550,000 in compensatory damages and an additional $150,000 in punitive damages. The original lawsuit against MindGeek was filed in December last year, on behalf of 40 women plaintiffs. The company also suspended user-uploaded content in December 2020 following a separate set of allegations involving child abuse and rape-related videos. “We are committed to remaining at the forefront of internet safety, and taking every measure to prevent bad actors from posting illegal content online.” That scheme, revealed during the months-long trial in San Diego Superior Court Judge Kevin Enright’s courtroom, led to criminal human trafficking charges being filed by the US Attorneys Office in the Southern District of California. Once Doe agreed to film the video, she was rushed through signing a contract and told “we needed to get this done.” Wolfe and Garcia soon put furniture in front of the hotel room door during filming; Jane Doe 7 said she couldn’t leave and was scared.
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Images, likenesses, videos or copyrights, and must remove their images, likenesses, or videos from all internet sites owned or controlled by Girls Do Porn, as well as take “active steps” to have such images, likenesses and videos removed from circulation and to safeguard Plaintiffs’ privacy. Domi Publications filed for bankruptcy, and a trustee of the bankruptcy proceedings sued two attorneys who represented Domi Publications during the civil trial, alleging professional negligence and a breach of fiduciary duties. The GirlsDoPorn civil lawsuit and main criminal indictment have spawned a dizzying network of related criminal cases, civil suits and bankruptcy proceedings. “Motivated by profit, Aylo Holdings knowingly enriched itself by turning a blind eye to the concerns of victims who communicated to the company that they were deceived and coerced into participating in illicit sexual activity,” FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge James Smith in a statement.
Additionally, Wolfe admitted that Pratt also operated a website called Pornwikileaks.com with identifying information and social media accounts for some women being filmed. The website was dedicated to revealing the true identities of the women appearing in those sex videos, “causing the victims to be subjected to severe harassment,” the DOJ said in a press release last year. Douglas “James” Wiederhold was indicted last month in San Diego federal court on five counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and one count of conspiracy to commit the same alleged crime. In 2019, Girls Do Porn owners were found guilty of intimidating and coercing 22 women into having sex on camera and lying to them about how widely the videos would be distributed. After telling the women that the videos would only be distributed abroad and to private collectors, they appeared on the Girls Do Porn website. The videos also reached millions of viewers after Girls Do Porn uploaded them to Pornhub and other porn tube sites, where women were often doxed in the comments.
- District Judge Janis L. Sammartino has ruled that all rights to videos and images produced in the GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys sex trafficking case be awarded to the hundreds of victims who are featured in the footage posted to the adult websites.
- Pratt, a New Zealand native who was added to the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list months before his arrest, is believed to still be in Spanish custody awaiting extradition to San Diego, where he’s under indictment on charges of sex trafficking and production of child sexual abuse material.
- Once Doe agreed to film the video, she was rushed through signing a contract and told “we needed to get this done.” Wolfe and Garcia soon put furniture in front of the hotel room door during filming; Jane Doe 7 said she couldn’t leave and was scared.
Survivors, many of them college students at the time, described answering what they thought were legitimate modeling ads and flying to San Diego for paid modeling gigs, only to be forced to perform sexual acts on camera. A senior Labour MP on Tuesday launched an attack against adult websites, saying they are “characterized by lawlessness,” and called for further criminalization of all sex work. Pratt arrived in the United States around 2007, according to the civil trial filings, “to start filming pornography.” But the company had started long before Pratt made his move.