Jane Does v GirlsDoPorn: How 22 millennial women brought down a porn empire

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The Senate of the Republic of Ireland — known by its Gaelic name Seanad Éireann — has endorsed an age verification bill introduced by a senator who said he was inspired by the U.S. state laws promoted by religious conservative anti-porn crusaders. And this morning, like clockwork, GirlsDoPorn added its latest video — business as usual. But that was a rosier, industry-sanitized version of what actually happened to the current Vixen Angel in those San Diego hotel rooms.

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Many of the models reported that, while they were getting their hair and makeup professionally done, GDP staff would offer them drinks and marijuana. The lengthy contract would make its one and only appearance at this point, a contract that the Jane Does, and many other models not in the lawsuit, were allegedly rushed to sign. “Jonathan,” later identified by AF-1 as Garcia, spoke on the phone to her and gave her the numbers of “reference girls.” AF-1 says she was initially offered $5,000, but shortly before she arrived to San Diego, the offer was lowered to $3,500. The “reference girls” were paid via PayPal, allowing the FBI to cross-check the payments.

• Gyi is not mentioned by name by the FBI in the criminal probe.
• ” Uh, I had a phone call with a few of them last night because of the Wolfe plea deal.
• However, according to investigators, GirlsDoPorn not only posted the scenes on its own website, it licensed them to several other adult sites accessible in the U.S., and released the woman’s real name to the recently shuttered pirate website Porn WikiLeaks.
• After arriving, she testified that she asked the videographer, the make-up artist, as well as the actor, Andre Garcia, that the videos would never be published online.
• The women were awarded $9.45 million in compensatory damages, and $3.3 million in punitive damages.

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

“This defendant lured one victim after another with fake modelling ads, false promises and deceptive front companies, ultimately devolving to threats to coerce these women into making sex videos,” said Acting US Attorney Randy Grossman in a statement issued at the time of his conviction. Pornhub’s parent company has settled a lawsuit brought by 50 women who said they were victims of a sex-trafficking operation. YouTube removed several other videos where Girls Do Porn models were doxed in the video or comments after Motherboard reached out for comment.

Jane Doe 17 vs Girlsdoporn.com

Pornhub has been sued by 40 women who say it profited from a sex-trafficking operation by a content partner. After all this time, posts from people sharing her Girls Do Porn appearance still get tagged on social media with her past employers’ names. The idea that this traumatizing experience has also tarnished old colleagues’ work upsets her. Charles DeBarber, lead privacy analyst at Phoenix Advocates & Consultants, specializes in removing non-consensual porn online—he told me that YouTube is the least responsive platform he’s dealt with, and when he tried to help Jane get this video removed, the platform ignored multiple reports. “For next couple of days I was quite literally on suicide watch, and trying to explain to my close friends from all over what happened, and that this was not—I did not go and try to shoot a porno that would be distributed to millions online, or for the entire world to see it,” Jane said.

AF-1 and AF-4 are explicitly identified as two of the 22 Jane Does. The statement revealed that Ruben Andre Garcia, 31, known by his performer name Andre Garcia, was arrested on Wednesday. Matthew Wolfe, 37, had already been taken into custody on Tuesday, October 8, by immigration officials and transferred to federal criminal custody.

Jane Doe is hoping to expose the dark underbelly of the pornography industry and desires to play a role in “ruining” pornography for others the way her trauma has ruined it for her little brother. She is now shining a light on the sinister reality of pornography, and how it is so often made — a quest born out of her honest and raw recollection of the night she was so violently abused; she suffered significant vaginal tearing and even tried — unsuccessfully — to flee the hotel completely naked. There were times, Jane Doe admitted, she had to be hospitalized because she couldn’t trust herself. She still feels each of her emotions deeply, rattled often by the sting of trauma but is emerging with a hopefulness she hasn’t had over the last six-and-a-half years. Even as she’s seeing some level of justice served against those who trafficked her, Jane Doe’s pain is still very palpable.