Judge Awards Nearly $13 Million to Women Who Say They Were Exploited by Porn Producers

New York Times ^ | 01/02/2020 | Michael Levenson

[Gena Bukin]

A Superior Court judge in San Diego tentatively awarded nearly $13 million to almost two dozen young women on Thursday, ruling that they had been tricked into performing in pornographic videos that derailed and uprooted their lives and led several to become suicidal.

The ruling capped an unusual 99-day civil trial that exposed the bait-and-switch tactics and false promises deployed as part of a scheme to induce young women, who would not otherwise consider filming pornography, to fly to San Diego and shoot a pornographic video.

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Judge Enright found that the women had been lured with Craiglist ads that offered to pay them around $5,000 for photos or video shoots. The ads did not indicate that any nudity or pornography would be involved.

“Wanted,” one ad read, “beautiful college type preppy girls,” for video and photo shoots.

The women who responded to the ads said they were directed to innocuous websites, with pictures of clothed women, that asked for their contact information and photographs.

The ads turned out to be from the producers of GirlsDoPorn, who were seeking women to make so-called amateur pornography, which often features fresh-faced actresses paired with seasoned male performers.

Once a newly recruited woman had flown to San Diego, she found herself alone in a hotel room with two men about to shoot a pornographic video, Judge Enright wrote.

At this point, the producers had the women sign documents containing “dense and ambiguous legalese,” which they falsely described as guarantees that their videos would be distributed only on DVD outside of the United States and would never be published online, Judge Enright wrote.

“Defendants rush and pressure the woman to sign the documents quickly without reading them and engage in other deceptive, coercive and threatening behavior to secure their signatures,” Judge Enright wrote...

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[JoeRender]

Simple rule that if followed will prevent this from ever happening.

Never get naked in front of a camera for any reason.

[freeandfreezing]

That means some young ladies may not get good guidance..

I agree. Instead of spending as many hours on harmful indoctrination in schools it would not be a bad idea to have at least a few classes on things not to do. The same classes could introduce a few common sense concepts about how not to get taken advantage of, and an introduction to personal safety, responsibility, and maybe even that advantages of positive character traits and behaviors.

[minnesota_bound]

I think the women would have had to send photos or videos of themselves naked to them doing whatever the producers wanted before they were flown anywhere.

[L.A.Justice]

These guys took a bizarrely cruel fascination with publicly doxxing these girls as soon as possible. In many cases, almost immediately after filming, the girls found hard core scenes emailed through social media to friends, family, employers, on Facebook pages etc. The men had their real names and contact info.

So not only did they lie that their identities would never be found out, they took the necessary steps to ensure exactly this would happen!
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Those guys were really bad...They deserved to be sued...

Those ladies should remember that law does not prohibit employers from discriminating against people who were adult actors...

Houston, a porn actress, moved to Texas and sold real estate...One day, the company fired her. Somebody told company about her porn background. Houston has gone back to porn business...She is not the only one who returned to porn business. There are others who returned to the business as well...