Michael James Pratt

GirlsDoPorn was a pornography website owned by Michael Pratt (born 1982, New Zealand), who also worked as the cameraman and editor.

Matthew Wolfe (born 1982 or 1983, New Zealand) was co-owner and cameraman.

He is also a childhood friend of Pratt's. Doug Wiederhold and Ruben Andre Garcia (born 1986 or 1987) were the main male pornographic actors for the company.

Pratt began working in the pornographic industry around the year 2000, after graduating from high school.

He initially launched the affiliate porn websites Wicked Movies, Kute Kittens, and TeenieFlixxx, the last an affiliate of the existing website ExploitedTeens, all of which produced pornography in the same style that GirlsDoPorn later would.

Pratt began planning and shooting for GirlsDoPorn in 2007.

In 2007, Pratt moved to the United States to film pornography.

Between 2007 and 2012, Wiederhold worked with Pratt, the two filming videos of Wiederhold having sex in hotel rooms with women who were not in the porn industry.

These videos formed the basis of the videos first released by GirlsDoPorn.

Vice reported that "the current iteration of the 'casting couch' trope is largely based on" Backroom Casting Couch, a series that started in 2007 by a pornographer who allegedly deceived the women featured in his videos.

Over a dozen U.S. and foreign companies were associated with GirlsDoPorn throughout its lifespan.

Wolfe was involved with Pratt's work from 2008 onwards.

GirlsDoPorn was an American pornographic website active from 2009 until 2020.

The website was launched in 2009.

In 2010, Wiederhold and Pratt created the MILF pornography website MomPOV, which had a Vanuatu address but operates from Las Vegas.

In 2011, Wolfe moved from New Zealand to the United States.

Over 100 videos were filmed by Wolfe for GirlsDoPorn between 2011 and 2019.

GirlsDoPorn was active during a period of growing consumption of 'casting couch' Internet pornography.

Such pornography is often filmed in hotel rooms with minimal crew and may feature women who have not previously filmed pornography and are given money on-camera.

In the case of GirlsDoPorn, their homepage boasted, "You will not find these girls on any other website".

The women would be asked about their sex lives on camera, and sometimes videos included them reading parts of their contracts aloud.

The male performer's face was never shown in the videos.

Lawyer Aaron Sadock began working for the company in 2012, while cameraman Theodore "Teddy" Gyi filmed around 120 videos between 2015 and 2017.

A lawsuit filed in 2016 involving 22 plaintiffs alleged "intentional misrepresentation, fraudulent concealment, unlawful and fraudulent business practices, and the intentional infliction of emotional distress" on the parts of New Zealand nationals Michael Pratt (co-owner) and Matthew Wolfe (co-owner and cameraman), as well as Andre Garcia (pornographic actor).

In October and November 2019, six people involved were charged on counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion.

In December 2019, two more individuals were charged with obstruction of sex trafficking enforcement.

The website was removed in January 2020 after 22 victims won the civil case against the company.

According to the United States Department of Justice, the website and its sister website GirlsDoToys generated over $17 million in revenue.

Videos were featured on GirlsDoPorn.com as well as pornography aggregate websites such as Pornhub, where the channel reached the top 20 most viewed, with approximately 680 million views.

Pornography produced by the company, which was based in San Diego, California, was in the style of a 'casting couch', featuring women who were not professional pornographic actors.

In January 2020, the plaintiffs received damages of $12.775 million, as well as ownership to videos they featured in.

However, they are yet to receive any money, as of February 2022.

In December 2023, Aylo (owners of Pornhub) agreed to pay a $1.8million government fine plus compensation to victims.

Lawsuits and other testimony describe alleged practices by GirlsDoPorn in detail.

According to a lawsuit, women who responded to fake modeling advertisements on Craigslist were put into contact with "reference girls" who pretended to have had positive experiences shooting videos for the company.

Some participants were told that they would be paid between $2,000 and $6,000 to have sex for 30 minutes on camera.

All plaintiffs said that they were given verbal promises that the videos would never be released on the Internet or in the United States, instead being told the videos would be put on DVDs and sold only to private buyers or independent video stores in Australia, New Zealand, or South America.

When they reached San Diego, they were made to sign contracts that did not mention the name "GirlsDoPorn".

The Department of Justice said that "some were sexually assaulted and in at least one case raped".

Filming was described as lasting up to seven hours; according to an ex-employee, 50% of women were not paid the amount they were promised.