GirlsDoPorn Founder Michael Pratt on FBI Most Wanted List

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But now, nearly a year after recording the video, the footage had been uploaded to a subscription-based amateur porn site, which billed itself as the go-to spot on the internet to find attractive, impressionable, barely-legal models. This would turn into just one of this website’s many scandals, but by no means the largest or most costly – rather, becoming just great promotion for the site’s owners, who stood to profit from the site’s name being repeated by newscasters and pundits all across the country. Since their arrests, Garcia, Wolfe, and several others have pleaded guilty to sex trafficking. Garcia was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, and Wolfe awaits sentencing.

• The owner of a pornographic site who federal authorities consider the «mastermind» behind a commercial sex trafficking ring was recently extradited from Spain to appear in court nearly five years after felony charges were filed against him in San Diego.
• “These creators of sexually explicit deepfakes have no regard whatsoever for the women and girls who are victims of sex trafficking and now being further abused through this deepfake sexual abuse,” says Clare McGlynn, a professor of law at Durham University, who works to counter image-based abuse.
• One woman (Jane Doe #4) would claim that in her 2013 shoot, she suffered an extreme amount of pain during the shoot and asked the two men present (Andre Garcia and Matthew Wolfe) to leave.

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Some women spoke during a hearing in January, while even more spoke in person and via video conference Tuesday. According to Wolfe, Pratt paid for his flight, gave him an apartment and paid him $500 a week. Initially Wolfe worked in the office maintaining the computer servers, handling payroll and taking care of other routine office tasks, but he eventually began filming videos and taking a more hands-on role within the company. Others detailed how they had lost jobs, been evicted, and were estranged from friends and family.

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The companies deny knowingly profiting from illegal and abusive content and insist that reforms now keep such content off the site. Fleites was a 14-year-old 8th grader in Bakersfield, California when a boy a year older than her, who she had a crush on, asked her to film naked videos of herself. The boy shared the videos with friends, and someone uploaded them to Pornhub. A 2022 lawsuit says Pornhub profited from the videos of the 12-year-old Alabama boy who was drugged and repeatedly raped — and for five months ignored demands by police that the videos be taken down. «Performers» remain unverified in many thousands of pre-2024 videos, including those that pop up from search terms involving teens and violence, Mickelwait told Business Insider.

GirlsDoPorn filmed more than 100 women, many who had their lives destroyed by Garcia and his cohorts. The women were lied to, Garcia recruited some when they were still underage, and all of them were lured to California through an intricate web of deception. Wolfe would end up shooting more than a hundred videos for GirlsDoPorn, before going on to launch a spinoff venture in 2014 called «GirlsDoToys» (which is exactly what you think it was).

The FBI is still searching for GirlsDoPorn creator Michael Pratt, who faces criminal sex-trafficking and child-porn charges. Charges were also filed against other GirlsDoPorn principals including Ruben Andre Garcia and Matthew Wolfe. 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.» The victims said they suffered relentless torment after online trolls figured out their names and posted that and other private information online. Some had links or images from the videos emailed to parents and grandparents, coworkers and bosses. Approximately 30 women told Wolfe and the judge, sometimes in great detail, about how Wolfe contributed to their lives being completely upended.