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Regardless, he would continue to upload videos to the GirlsDoPorn website throughout 2019, even after he and his colleagues had been charged with federal sex trafficking, indicating that these videos had been filmed well beforehand – and that he still had access to some of the company’s data storage. Theodore “Teddy” Gyi had been a cameraman and interviewer, who had been hired by Matthew Wolfe in the mid-2010s to take over his job filming for the company. From that point moving forward, Gyi had served as the main videographer for the website and had been the only non-executive to know the inner workings of the company – as well as the only other person other than the three named defendants to be in the hotel rooms during the filming of the videos. He would tell the court that he heard Andre Garcia lie to the women involved on several occasions about where the videos would end up once filmed, verifying several statements made about the defendants’ malicious practices. In dozens of cases, women had to undergo even more harassment due to the owners of GirlsDoPorn uploading the women’s true identities to the website PornWikileaks (which was exactly as disgusting as it sounds). This website was a compendium of porn actresses’ real names and identities, which included links to their social media accounts, their school & work information, and oftentimes even more personal or intimate details (their home town, address, phone number, etc.).

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These computers were later removed from the property by a couple of Pratt’s former employees, Fredrick and Efrain Jimenez, who were later charged with obstructing sex-trafficking enforcement. When questioned, they claimed to have not seen any computers inside of the home, which went against testimony provided by a pet-sitting service that Pratt had hired to take care of his cat. The brothers plead ignorance, but authorities believe that the two either destroyed or hid the computers somewhere in an attempt to hinder their investigation. In that regard, the case continues to remain unsolved, because this is a problem that will never truly go away for the women that had to live through it.

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Enright also ruled that Girls Do Porn remove the content featuring the plaintiffs from its own website and from any other tube sites where the content had been posted. Victims said in lawsuit filings that GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys lured them into conversations by posing as a modeling agency in Craigslist ads, with links to fake sites, offering modeling gigs in cities throughout the U.S. and Canada. They eventually offered thousands of dollars to make adult videos and connected potential victims with fake performers who convinced them that they’d enjoyed the experience, according to the suit. Pratt and his co-defendants were charged criminally in 2019 while they were fighting a lawsuit filed in state court by 22 women. The judge in that case found in favor of the women and handed down a $12.7 million judgment against Pratt, several of his employees and various business interests he owned.

• They were promised that the footage would go straight to DVD for wealthy buyers in other countries, in particular Australia and New Zealand, where the defendants come from.
• Most women find it difficult to get a sense of what’s normal and what isn’t when it comes to their bodies.
• The Free Speech Coalition’s Stabile also suggests substituting “sexually explicit” for “pornographic” when describing images, as it is more precise.

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After a four-year legal battle, the plaintiffs were vindicated by Judge Enright’s finding in their favor on all claims, and they have been working to put their lives back together while the attorneys seek to recover assets to satisfy the judgment. 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. For those of us who care about the injustice of sexual crime and desire to stand in real solidarity with its victims, our activism must include holding to account all individuals and corporations that participate in exploitation.

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.

• The producers claim that Megan had only been paid $1,500 for her original appearance, and had asked to come back for a second, but had been rejected by the producers, who critiqued her performance as “frigid at best.”
• Filmed in homes, hotels and trailer parks, videos on GirlsDoPorn specialise in promoting the image of the “ordinary” college girl who is making her first and only pornographic film.
• The website still lingers after all this time, and some of the videos have circulated to other porn sites as well, according to earlier reports.
• Many said they were pressured into performing sex acts they’d previously refused to do.

Beginning to grow confident that this was a decent way to earn a nice chunk of change, Jane would speak to Jonathan again on FaceTime. He again assured her that nothing she appeared in would be posted online and that the shoot would be quick and painless – taking less than 30 minutes of her time. He began making final plans to fly her out to San Diego to film the scene, offering an all-expenses-paid trip to Southern California, as well as an opportunity for this young woman to make decent money without having to ask her mom for help (who was already helping support two other children).