GirlsDoPorn case: California company ordered to pay $13 million to women who say they were tricked into pornography

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"This defendant lured one victim after another with fake modelling ads, false promises and deceptive front companies, ultimately devolving to threats to coerce these women into making sex videos," said Acting US Attorney Randy Grossman in a statement issued at the time of his conviction. Pornhub's parent company has settled a lawsuit brought by 50 women who said they were victims of a sex-trafficking operation. YouTube removed several other videos where Girls Do Porn models were doxed in the video or comments after Motherboard reached out for comment.

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• You may have heard about the infamous GDP case in the last couple of years, but you may not know what exactly happened, let alone the full account of one of the trafficked women.
• To see some of the text messages sent by the alleged “reference women,” scroll through below or click here.
• The Vanuatu entities, the Jane Doe lawsuit alleges, were set up by a mysterious man from Wichita, Kansas, named Kevin Holloway, an attorney with the expertise to set up complex offshore financial structures.
• Pornhub has faced increasing problems amid allegations that it hosted content featuring child sexual exploitation, nonconsensual violence, rape, and other illegal material.
• That’s precisely why GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt, videographer Matthew Wolfe, and actor Andre Garcia created a bait-and-switch scheme to get the women to appear in their videos.

Each time she goes on a date, she internally hopes the man sitting across from her won’t search her name on the internet. And even still, more than six years later, sex is unbearable. It was during those succeeding hours — from about 9 p.m.

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"Nobody in any of those situations has ever 'won,' even if their civil suits or criminal cases went well," DeBarber said. "It is so easy to just blame victims—much easier than helping them. I wonder how more than half of my clients could ever trust somebody ever again." You are signing up to receive general newsletters from CBN. By signing up, you are consenting to our privacy policy. You can specify preference after sign-up and opt out at any time.

• A little-explored element of the GirlsDoPorn story is that the company's recruitment narrative, now playing out as testimony in both civil and criminal forums, itself is an integral part of the brand.
• Jane Doe 15 said she was 18-years-old and attending college in 2016 when she found an ad on Craigslist for a modeling gig.
• She hoped there was a way to prevent the video from being released.

Here's What You Need to Know About the GirlsDoPorn Case

The generous support of our readers helps to pay our all-female staff and writers. Hopefully, the outcome of this headline-grabbing case will prompt porn users (men) to start considering the actual people (women) behind the camera. But, since porn is training men to dehumanize, objectify, and victim-blame women, you shouldn't hold your breath. Viewers of porn have no way to know if the girl behind the camera was tricked, coerced, threatened, or raped. With very few exceptions, women get involved in porn because they are desperate for money and, under capitalism, this is inherently coercive. Sex that you do not want to have is rape, even if you are paid.

The "greedy delusional lawyer" is Brian M. Holm, the persistent attorney currently representing the Jane Does — 22 GirlsDoPorn models accusing Pratt of fraud in a San Diego civil court. As a part of the conspiracy, Garcia and others would at times coerce victims into completing the videos once they were underway. Garcia and other co-conspirators threatened to sue the victims, cancel flights home, and post the videos online, if the victims did not complete the sex videos.

“He engages in dangerous and deceptive practices wherever he goes, and we will not waiver until justice is served,” she added, according to Complex. Believing she was protecting her family at her own expense, Jane Doe allowed her family — her parents, siblings, grandparents — to believe she was a willing participant in the abuse she endured, that she was a porn performer. The truth, she felt, was too much for them to bear, so she carried it alone. GirlsDoPorn’s attorney, Aaron Sadock, challenged Jane Doe 7 on the discrepancy between what she says she was told verbally and the contract she signed. SAN DIEGO — A new week began in the civil case against GirlsDoPorn with a testimony by another former model, Jane Doe 7, detailing experiences with the company around October 2013. Conservative newspaper The Washington Times on Tuesday published an opinion piece by the executive director of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, criticizing the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) on constitutional grounds.

The trial, before Superior Court Judge Kevin Enright, is now in its fifth week, with no end in sight. After the filming, Garcia offered to drive her to her car. But when she accepted the ride, she said Garcia drove past the car and parked in a nearby lot. She said attempted to exit the vehicle, but couldn’t, and Garcia climbed on top of her, physically preventing her from exiting. According to the indictment, Garcia removed the woman’s underwear and sexually assaulted her.

Enjoy the largest amateur porn community on the net as well as full-length scenes from the top XXX studios. We update our porn videos daily to ensure you always get the best quality sex movies. Victims were also misled about how long the video shoots lasted. Most were told the video production would take around 30 minutes, when in reality, they typically lasted for several hours. The sex for the video shoots was rough and caused many victims pain, and in some cases bleeding. In response, Garcia and others told the victims that they had to continue and finish the videos.

But publishing a video like this would have been a more brazen act of doxing. The video was supposed to end with the text "These retarded lawyers and disquisting [sic] whores wasted 3 years of everyones [sic] time. Ask yourself how viral these videos will go now if nobody is controlling them... Good job." Brewer also says that FBI agents "found evidence of efforts to harass and intimidate the victims and their attorneys."

"Our harassment policy prohibits content that features unwanted sexualization," a spokesperson for YouTube said in a statement. "We removed the five videos flagged to us by Vice in accordance with this policy." In 2017, Rob Kardashian posted revenge porn to Twitter, and the platform was criticized for letting it stay up for 30 minutes. Four months later, Twitter released new media policy guidelines to try to stop revenge porn from spreading. For Jane, the reporting process for one video has taken up to seven days for the platform to remove the content—days where the posts go even more viral, and spread out of control. People make YouTube videos identifying her as a Girls Do Porn model, and tag her workplaces with links to the videos on social media.