Three other co-defendants have already pleaded guilty in the case, while the remaining defendant, GirlsDoPorn owner Michael James Pratt, 39, remains a fugitive. CNN As Equals and Plan International collaborated to survey 619 girls and young women and five non-binary people aged online through Plan’s country offices in Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Philippines and Timor-Leste in February 2024. Surveys were shared online across Plan’s networks in these countries for up to one month, inviting girls aged to complete them until an adequate sample size was reached. Fernanda, a 21-year-old participant also from Brazil loves women’s football, but said she is reluctant to engage with online discussions about the sport. “I’m very afraid of commenting on my team’s posts, because I know how toxic the comments are (against girls),” she said adding that taking time offline has helped her deal with the stress. Nearly one in five young women and girls surveyed reported taking a break from the internet entirely to cope with the dangers they face online, and studies show online abuse has a silencing effect on women and girls.
- “[The] business I worked for since [I was] y[ea]rs old is destroyed by a greedy lawyer, a greedy delusional lawyer” an exasperated Pratt texted his loyal assistant Val in September 2018, as both the civil trial and the criminal investigation were closing in on him.
- Holm told NPR that they contacted the women whose names appeared on PornWikiLeaks, and kept hearing the same stories.
- They were then contacted by Garcia, who revealed applicants were actually being recruited to film a 30-minute porn video that they would be paid several thousand dollars to film.
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He awarded the women $9.45 million collectively in compensatory damages and $3.3 million in punitive damages. As part of his plea, Garcia admitted to threatening and deceiving the women, and paying other women to lie to reluctant recruits, falsely asserting that the footage would not be seen in the U.S. but was intended for private DVD collections overseas. To see some of the text messages sent by the alleged “reference women,” scroll through below or click here. Court exhibits shown at the trial show the man then known as Johnathon followed up with another email.
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Further, he ordered the defendants to take down the women’s sex videos and take steps to get them off other porn sites they don’t control but allowed to post clips, ads or entire films. When victims expressed hesitation, Garcia directed other young women to contact the victims and falsely reassure them that the videos would not be posted online and that none of the victims’ friends, families, colleagues or classmates would find out. Young women were selected as references, because Garcia, Pratt and Matthew Wolfe believed the victims were more likely to believe other young women over Garcia or Pratt. The references were paid a fee for each victim they attempted to recruit, with additional compensation for victims who agreed to film a video.
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Approximately 30 women told Wolfe and the judge, sometimes in great detail, about how Wolfe contributed to their lives being completely upended. Some women spoke during a hearing in January, while even more spoke in person and via video conference Tuesday. According to Wolfe, Pratt paid for his flight, gave him an apartment and paid him $500 a week.
- Wolfe’s attorney, Jeremy Warren, wrote that the country’s economy ground to a halt, leaving young people like Wolfe with few job prospects.
- The shooting of the videos was not truly voluntary because most of the women did not feel free to leave.
- In February 2011, an earthquake struck New Zealand, killing 185 people and causing widespread damage.
- Around a month after filming, the victims learned the true nature of the defendants’ business when the videos were not only released on their subscription site girlsdoporn.com, but also prominently published on popular free tube sites like Pornhub.com.
- “The money’s one thing but these guys have ruined [the plaintiffs’] lives and we have to clean this up as much as possible,” Ed Chapin, attorney for the women, said after the judge’s decision was issued.
In a previous statement to NBC 7, Aaron Sadock, the website owners’ attorney, said all of the women were of age and signed contracts agreeing to be in the videos. The case is ongoing, with more women still preparing to provide their testimony. It was reported that the adult film company has attempted so far to disrupt proceedings by filing bankruptcy, intentional subpoena dodging, and another series of miscellaneous delays. The lawsuit alleges that the company made millions in profits by coercing young women into the scenes, by initially advertising themselves online as a modelling website and lying to them about the conditions of the scenes. A whistleblower has revealed that the owner of Girls Do Porn was prone to having ‘man tantrums’ and allegedly stabbed an employee in a shocking testimony for an ongoing class-action lawsuit against the company.
Wolfe trained co-defendant Theodore Gyi, a cameraman, on how to run video shoots and told Gyi that, if asked, to tell the women that the videos would not be posted on the internet. In trial, defense attorneys argued that the women were over 18, understood what they were doing, accepted payment and in some cases returned to San Diego again and again to make more videos. The plaintiffs’ attorneys said the videos were not immediately posted on the internet and defendants later refused requests to take down the films. During her testimony, the woman described what her attorneys call an “elaborate scheme” to convince her and hundreds of other women to appear in sex videos which were later posted to some of the most popular websites in the world. Pratt was charged in a 19-count indictment with sex trafficking, production of child pornography, sex trafficking of a minor, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments in connection with the operation of the GirlsDoPorn adult website, according to the FBI. According to the lawsuit, Jane Doe 15, who was 18 at the time, admitted she consented to the shoots but only on the understanding that the videos would not include any identifying information, and would only be distributed to private collectors abroad.
The second count against the three men is a similar charge, dating to around October 2013. Last Thursday, October 10, the Department of Justice finally unsealed the criminal charges, following a series of sensational raids in San Diego. Certainly, Sadock added, “the producers of the videos did not send links to the videos to the model’s friends and families.” The NBC 7 coverage relied on court filings and the anonymous testimony of six models who were not among the 22 Jane Does. Plaintiff’s attorney Brian Holm spoke to NBC 7 and said that he had been in touch with 120 models. The bankruptcy judge, however, ruled that Pratt had acted in bad faith and the civil trial resumed in early 2019.