Controversial Site GirlsDoPorn.com Has Been Taken Down

The site's owner remains on the run from the FBI

girls do porn down
The site has finally gone dark amid months of controversy.
Unsplash

Amid federal sex trafficking charges, the main website of porn production company Girls Do Porn appears to have shut down, Vice reported Wednesday. The site has gone offline after its owners were found guilty by a civil court of coercing women to perform for videos and lying about how the footage would be distributed.

Early this month, a state judge tentatively awarded more than $12.7 million to the plaintiffs in a civil case brought by 22 women who claimed that Girls Do Porn tricked them into filming explicit scenes they were told would never appear online. The videos were available for free on various tube sites and on girlsdoporn.com, which sold subscriptions to view full videos. The lawyers for the women involved claim they interviewed hundreds more women who appeared in Girls Do Porn videos who reported similar experiences.

Back in October, Girls Do Porn’s owner Michael Pratt was charged charged with federal counts of sex trafficking along with several other site operators and employees. Pratt is currently a wanted fugitive of the FBI, and his brothers were recently charged with obstructing the federal investigation into Girls Do Porn for helping to move computer equipment out of Pratt’s home.

Adult industry blog Mike South first reported the site was down on Sunday, but according to isitdownrightnow.com, girlsdoporn.com has been down for at least a week, Vice reported.

There is reportedly no public record of the site having been shut down by law enforcement, and one of the attorneys representing the women in the civil suit told Vice he wasn’t aware of the site being taken down as part of the ruling in the civil case. Girls Do Porn has been barred from using or distributing the plaintiffs’ likenesses and videos as part of the ruling, and has also been ordered to “take active steps to have such images, likenesses and videos removed from circulation and to safeguard plaintiffs’ privacy.”

Subscribe here for our free daily newsletter.

The InsideHook Newsletter.

News, advice and insights for the most interesting person in the room.