Girls Do Porn Founder Michael Pratt Arrested In Spain

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For his part, Garcia was paid a commission for each victim that he recruited on top of an hourly wage for his time. Garcia will be ordered to pay restitution in an amount to be determined by the court at sentencing. But not the videos strewn across its site, unless they were directly uploaded to that Girls Do Porn page.

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Following a nearly three-month civil trial, a judge has awarded $12.75 million to 22 women who claim they were tricked into shooting explicit sexual content by producers for the website GirlsDoPorn.com. Through their lawyer, the women accused Pratt and his attorney of filing a bogus bankruptcy case purely to stall the civil trial. In March of 2019, a federal bankruptcy judge ruled that the civil case could proceed despite Pratt’s bankruptcy case, and Pratt voluntarily dismissed the bankruptcy case. The film shoots themselves reportedly lasted for as long as seven hours, though Pratt promised it’d only be 30 minutes of filming.

• Another woman altogether claimed that she was forced into performing oral sex on Garcia during their shoot, and afterward, was driven by Garcia to an isolated location where he had forcibly raped her in the backseat of the vehicle.
• When the victims arrived in San Diego for their shoots, they were prevented from reading their contracts and coerced into participating through lies, deception, and intimidation.
• Survivors of image-based sexual abuse — overwhelmingly women and girls — can experience the same kinds of mental health issues as those who have been physically sexually assaulted.
• In light of the horrid shame of Paley’s generation, my mother giving me the American Girl body book was quite progressive.
• The company reached settlements with the women in both lawsuits and also agreed to pay over $1.8 million to resolve a probe by federal prosecutors who alleged the company knew or should have known it was accepting money that originated from sex-trafficking operations.

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SAN DIEGO – David Warren of Las Vegas was sentenced in federal court today to 10 years in prison for coercing three women to engage in prostitution and transporting them… Victims who consumed alcohol or smoked marijuana were directed to make a recorded statement saying that they were not under the influence of any drugs or alcohol, even though they had just smoked marijuana or drank alcohol. Mislabeling abusive media as porn makes it seem like “this is something that either platforms or performers are complicit with,” said Mike Stabile, director of public policy at the Free Speech Coalition, the adult industry trade group. When she was sixteen, the doctor in her small town of two thousand people prescribed the Pill because of her painful periods—but didn’t bother to tell her its primary purpose was to help prevent pregnancy. Then, the first time she had sex, on the night of her high school graduation, she became pregnant, though they used a condom.

The charges are separate from an ongoing trial in San Diego Superior Court, in which 22 women are accusing the company of recruiting them to shoot porn under false pretenses. In their suit, the women claim that they were told that they were being hired for modeling jobs, for which they would be paid $5,000, and were not informed that they would be making pornographic content until they arrived on set. During testimony earlier this week, Moser, who spoke on behalf of the plaintiffs, said that Pratt instructed her not to tell recruits the name of the company, telling her to call it “Plus One Media” instead.

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. She locked herself in the bathroom while Wolfe and Garcia tried to coax her out. But soon after the incident, she was harassed at work—Jane Doe 7’s video had been posted online. While she only looked at it on one website, others told Doe the video was now all over the Internet. Pratt fled the US in 2019 as a civil lawsuit against him and his business partners was underway in San Diego. Twenty-two women accused him and his co-conspirators of coercing them into making porn videos and then lying about their distribution, leading to severe harassment and psychological pain.