Pornhub sued by 40 Girls Do Porn sex trafficking victims

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The ads did not mention that the shoots would involve sex or even nudity. On Thursday, Judge Kevin A. Enright of San Diego Superior Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, stating that producers for Girls Do Porn, a website purporting to feature fresh-faced young talent shooting amateur porn, had coerced the plaintiffs into shooting graphic material under false pretenses. The women were awarded $9.45 million in compensatory damages, an $3.3 million in punitive damages. For an in-depth look at the GirlsDoPorn case up until the filing of the criminal charges, click here.The defense attempted to put on hold the civil trial until the criminal trial was decided, but the San Diego judge presiding over it refused their request. A few weeks ago, during the civil trial but before the Department of Justice had unsealed the criminal charges and arrested Wolfe, Garcia and Moser, it was publicized by Florida gonzo porn studio Bang Bros that they had bought PornWikileaks and “destroyed their servers” as a service to the adult community. Sadock is named by the Jane Does’ attorneys as a key part of Pratt’s organization, his trusted consigliere and legal eagle since 2012.

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“Following the FBI’s takedown of the GirlsDoPorn operators and business and filing of criminal charges, Aylo finally removed GirlsDoPorn’s videos from its websites. But this was too little too late,” the complaint states. Despite the fact that prostitution is illegal, it is legal to pay someone for sex as long as you are filming it. The pornographic loophole fails to acknowledge that rape on camera is still rape, just like paid rape is still rape. Porn victims, however, continue to be victimized over and over again through the distribution of their videos and the sexual harassment that follows. A San Diego judge awarded 22 Jane Does $13 million in damages on Thursday in their case against GirlsDoPorn.com.

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• She testified during trial that she stopped participating in school events and often threw up while walking to class because of her anxiety over being seen in public.
• Sadock is personally accused by Holm of stonewalling the models’ DMCA takedown attempts to remove their videos from GirlsDoPorn, Pornhub and other sites.
• For raping girls on film, GDP has an annual revenue of $25 million.
• According to YouTube’s transparency report, in the last quarter of 2020, the platform removed 65,000 channels, 77,000 videos, an 136 million comments for harassment and cyberbullying, “the vast majority of which were first detected through automated flagging,” the spokesperson said.
• 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 women who say they were tricked into filming pornography have since been the target of relentless harassment online and in person, dropped out of school, considered suicide, and moved to a different country. Forty Jane Does who say they were victims of GirlsDoPorn sued Pornhub yesterday for at least $2 million each, alleging that Pornhub hosted videos despite knowing that “GirlsDoPorn was a sex trafficking venture.” In the complaint for damages against Mindgeek it was alleged that victims had sent the company “complaints detailing the fraud and coercion they were subject to by Girls Do Porn” but the company had not ended the partnership. The first court case on behalf of victims was lodged in June 2016.

And then there are Episodes 439 an 443, released in 2018 and featuring the adult industry debut of one of the top rising starlets in porn right now, Emily Willis. The moderators interact with the fans, showing them photos of every new girl sitting on yet another generic four-star hotel bed. ” they announce, implying an intimacy between “they” (Dre, Pratt) and the fans. Any serious analyst of the adult business will readily see this as a misguided, inaccurate depiction. The GirlsDoPorn fallout is not a cautionary tale for an entire industry, but the expected comeuppance for some rogue operators that have had, from the beginning, questionable practices. 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.

And some of the girls with the GirlsDoPorn trial were 17 when they were groomed. Like this podcast, like 10 years ago, uh, or how 13 years ago when I was raped when I was 15, I, I didn’t know that there was help out there. I wasn’t the only one and it didn’t make me broken forever. Because so many people have this idea of addiction like, “Oh, well I can’t, I’m not addicted. I can stop any time I want.” Uh, but I, I challenge people to really try to push themselves and heal, feel intimacy, um, feel desire or acceptance in other ways, learn, learn to accept yourself. Um, I think so many times we crave acceptance and validation from other people and the real issue is, do we, do I want me?

To prove their bona fides, the GDP team would volunteer as a reference another girl who had supposedly had a good experience shooting for them. XBIZ also spoke exclusively with a major porn starlet, and current Vixen Angel, who had her beginnings as a GirlsDoPorn hopeful — after meeting a dangerous man on Tinder who was not who he claimed to be. To help us create more content like this, consider joining Fighter Club at FTND.org/FC. To learn more about how pornography impacts individuals, relationships, and society, visit FTND.org.

First, Jane Doe 7 found out the photo shoot was actually a video shoot only when she was picked up at the airport by Matthew Wolfe, a videographer working for the porn website GirlsDoPorn. Yesterday, the models — listed as Jane Doe 1-50 — filed a joint motion to dismiss the case with prejudice. Only when we know about the violence women and girls face are we able to make a difference. Help us expose male violence by becoming a monthly donor!