[BUSINESS] Judge awards $12.7 million to the 22 women suing GirlsDoPorn

[TheButcher]

The civil case against GirlsDoPorn is over, I am sure there will be an appeal, but the criminal case is the real problem for those accused.


"(CNN)A San Diego judge has awarded $12.7 million to 22 women who claimed they were deceived and coerced into filming pornography they did not know would be posted online.
Tuesday's decision stems from a lawsuit filed by the unnamed women against pornography website GirlsDoPorn and concluded a trial that began in August. San Diego Superior Court Judge Kevin Enright awarded the women $9,475,831.50 in compensatory damages and $3.3 million in punitive damages.
"We are weighing our client's options, which include filing objections to the court's tentative statement of decision and an appeal if the decision becomes final," defense attorney Aaron D. Sadock said in a statement to CNN. Sadock added that the defendants will likely file objections in the next 15 days.
The lawsuit claims that the defendants deceived women in financial need.

Court documents say the defendants, including the website's owners Michael James Pratt and Matthew Isaac Wolfe and porn actor Ruben Andre Garcia, used fraudulent practices to recruit "amateur college-aged women filming pornography for the first and only time" for their subscription-based service.
The defendants were aware that the models recruited for the website did not intend to pursue a career in adult entertainment, court documents said.
Instead, the women were mostly students who considered the defendants' solicitations to film a pornographic video only due to some immediate and pressing financial need, according to court documents. The lawsuit claims the defendants took "considerable, calculated steps to falsely assure prospective models that their videos will never be posted online, come to light in the United States, or be seen by anyone who might know them."
The women were rushed into signing documents without reading them, and the defendants paid "references" hired to pose as previous models and deliver a script that would falsely convince the women that the experience was "safe and enjoyable" and that the videos had never been discovered nor circulated.
Despite these promises, the lawsuit says the defendants published the videos to their website and many popular free services.

The owners of the website and two employees have also been charged in federal court with sex trafficking crimes in connection with the scheme, according to the Department of Justice.
"At this point our clients are focused on defending themselves against the criminal charges in Federal Court in San Diego. The tentative ruling does not affect the criminal case," Sadock said."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/03/us/fraud ... index.html

[CDSally]

If it's all true ten they got what they were due.

[bill]

if that is all true then they should have received more

[Boner]

How do these monetary amounts get set, is it what the plaitiffs ask for and the judge decides, or what.

[chilli.domains]

You do wrong you deserve to get nailed , this story was never good to begin with.

[bestfreeporn]

Not kosher because it reflects badly on the adult industry, it means women were wronged. I think the judge got it right based on the evidence and arguments presented by the plaintiffs.

[nudelinks]

Not enough , they have to be fined way more.

[chilli.domains]

Not enough , they have to be fined way more.

It usually gets reduced in the appeal.

[porntraveller]

$12.7 Mill divided into 22 , makes $577K each woman, typically attorneys charge about a 1/3rd so say $200K for them, that only leaves each woman with $377K. Not a bad amount of money.

[fantastico]

$12.7 Mill divided into 22 , makes $577K each woman, typically attorneys charge about a 1/3rd so say $200K for them, that only leaves each woman with $377K. Not a bad amount of money.

and your point being what,

$377,000 is still a lot of money don't ya think?

[trafficseller]

when this story broke , my thoughts were it will not go well and there is some truth to the claims made by the women, hard to say why I had that hunch, and now the trial is over I was unfortunately correct.

[Ricks-Cams]

Right is right and wrong is wrong. No woman has to be tricked into doing porn.

[24alex]

The domain is offline, just checked. That is a good thing.

[Cumslut]

You miss one important part in this, the women were mentally and emotionally harmed, you can not put a dollar amount on that anguish and hurt.

[GRXlinks]

You miss one important part in this, the women were mentally and emotionally harmed, you can not put a dollar amount on that anguish and hurt.

I never believe when people say it is not about the money, you sue to get money.