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

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Hopefully today’s sentence will offer them a sense of justice.” Grossman praised prosecutors Joseph Green, Alexandra Foster and Sabrina Feve; FBI Special Agents; and the U.S. Attorney’s Office Victim Witness Unit for their excellent work on this case. A lawsuit was filed this week on behalf of 61 women against Pornhub’s parent company for allegedly hosting videos produced by former San Diego-based website GirlsDoPorn.com, the owners and operators of which were charged by federal prosecutors with sex trafficking. By the time the criminal charges were filed, the civil case had been underway for years. The complaint also noted that the change to Section 230 is retroactive. YouTube has also ignored reports from her and her legal team to get videos outing her name and workplace removed.

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From approximately 2013 to 2017, Garcia worked as a recruiter, producer, and actor for the GDP and GDT websites, which grossed millions of dollars during this time. Throughout the scheme, Garcia knew these representations were false. Garcia knew the videos were being posted on the fee-based websites, GDP and GDT, and excerpts were posted on free pornographic sites such as Pornhub.com, one of the most frequently viewed websites in the world receiving millions of views, to drive paying viewers to GDP and GDT. In July 2015, Jane Doe 1 responded to a Craigslist ad seeking models in the Las Vegas area. She was told she would be filming pornography and that the video would never be posted online or distributed in the United States.

• I, I had, I have nieces and nephews that I adore and sometimes even now I have to picture their faces, if I wanna hurt myself or I have to snuggle my dog.
• Jane Doe 7 ended up filming a porn video under duress in a hotel room where furniture blocked the door, preventing her from leaving.
• The GirlsDoPorn verdict has exposed the coercive tactics used by the porn industry to trick desperate women into participating in something they do not really want to do.
• And this morning, like clockwork, GirlsDoPorn added its latest video — business as usual.

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In November 2015, an anonymous woman filed a police report in Newport Beach, California, after her video was posted on Girls Do Porn. A copy of the report obtained by The Appeal shows that she told police that she was raped by Garcia after filming her video. She said she had met Garcia that September after responding to a Craigslist ad for a modeling job that linked to a website called Begin Modeling. It wasn’t until she arrived at the shoot that she learned she would be filming porn. The FBI is still searching for GirlsDoPorn creator Michael Pratt, who faces criminal sex-trafficking and child-porn charges.

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The GirlsDoPorn operators knew this, and they wagered the Does’ shame over appearing in porn would likely ensure these victims would not take the site’s management to task for this fraud. The men in charge, Michael Pratt, Andre Garcia, Matthew Wolf, are also facing criminal charges for sex trafficking and child pornography. Garcia and Wolf are currently in federal custody, while Pratt has fled to New Zealand, his home country. The child pornography charges he is facing are subject to an extradition treaty between the US and New Zealand.

• If MindGeek did not know GirlsDoPorn was a sex trafficking venture before October 2019, it should have known for a great number of reasons, the most notable of which is that GirlsDoPorn’s victims sent MindGeek complaints detailing the fraud and coercion they were subjected to by GirlsDoPorn.
• The women were all victims of Girls Do Porn, whose owners have been charged with offences by US officials.
• Twenty-one days after her 22nd birthday, she boarded a flight to San Diego that, unbeknownst to her, would change her life forever.
• After the filming, Garcia offered to drive her to her car.
• After filming the videos for about six to seven hours, the girls typically flew back home.

Victims were not provided a copy of the contracts that they signed. What happened in that room completely upended Jane’s life since—it’s followed her throughout school, to her first jobs out of college, through every success she’s ever earned, and in every relationship she’s ever been in. She is one of 22 women who sued fraudulent porn production company Girls Do Porn and won millions of dollars in a civil trial in 2020, and whose testimonies led to an FBI indictment of the owners and operators of the site.

This video was on YouTube for five months; she’s tried to get it removed with multiple reports, but YouTube didn’t act on it until Motherboard flagged it to the platform as doxing. It’s now removed for violating YouTube’s policy on sexual content. Among them, producer and porn actor Ruben Andre Garcia was sentenced to 20 years in prison, while website operator Matthew Isaac Wolfe pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to commit sex trafficking count and is slated for sentencing in January. The day after we testified, uh, a bunch of girls and I went to the beach and I think that that is one of my very favorite days of my life, because we had this moment of just like peace, knowing that we all had this like bond that is totally unbreakable, a bond that you never wanna have with someone.

The new witness, identified as Jane Doe “A” testified that she shot the video with Andre Garcia — currently in federal custody accused of sex trafficking, rape and sexual assault — in August at downtown San Diego’s Omni Hotel. So it was like difficult dealing with their attorneys, uh, all different laws. Pornhub, having a download button, not verifying people.

The site offered an entry point into the industry to Whitney Westgate, Sophia Leone, Scarlet Red, Layla London, Alexis Adams and others. The GDP superfans seem to feel a sense of ownership over the content, even if they don’t agree among themselves. The models are often referred to by their episode number. Further stigmatizing sex workers and industry leaders who continue striving to establish production standards and protocols, by bundling them with atypical rogue producers, gives dangerous rhetorical ammunition to the powerful forces lined up against consensual, commercial sexual expression. AF-3 alleges Garcia sexually assaulted her in her car after the shoot. The attached affidavit, detailing Special Agent Lana K. Sabata’s investigation, includes information and statements uncovered during the Jane Does’ civil trial as the source of some of the state’s evidence against Pratt and the others.

She thought, she told the judge, that she was working for a company called BLL Media, supposedly initials for BMW, Lamborghini and Land Rover, the brands of Pratt’s vehicles. Pratt’s uninterrupted tale of success came to a halt in June 2016, when four former GDP models, the original Jane Does represented by nemesis Brian Holm, filed their civil lawsuit in San Diego. After filming the videos for about six to seven hours, the girls typically flew back home. SAN DIEGO — Last week, the turmoil surrounding controversial adult website GirlsDoPorn took a sharp turn, when the Department of Justice unsealed details of an FBI investigation into the site’s owners and employees for crimes related to sex trafficking.

In one case, a complaint by a woman who alleged that she was raped by a man who worked for Girls Do Porn was closed the day it was filed. While they were separate businesses, many of the videos produced by GirlsDoPorn were uploaded to and hosted on Pornhub. The lawsuit alleges that “as early as 2009, and definitely by fall 2016, MindGeek knew GirlsDoPorn was trafficking its victims by using fraud, coercion, and intimidation as part of its customary business practices to get the women to film the videos.” In 2019, a Maryland appellate court found 6-1 that child pornography laws apply when a teen is both the subject and sender of sexually explicit media. Under the ruling, where the judicial panel encouraged lawmakers to change the law, the appellate court upheld a lower court’s decision where a 16-year-old girl was convicted as her own pornographer.