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The Santa Monica-based company failed to maintain age and identity documents for performers in sexually explicit films.The California company responsible for the successful "Girls Gone Wild" series of videos has pleaded guilty to violating a federal law designed to prevent the sexual exploitation of children, the Justice Department announced today. Mantra Films Inc. of Santa Monica pleaded guilty to charges that it failed to create and maintain age and identity documents for performers in sexually explicit films that it produced and distributed. The company also failed to label its DVDs and videotapes as required by federal law, the Justice Department...

VIRGINIA BEACH — A jury on Wednesday ordered the company that produces the “Girls Gone Wild” videos to pay $60,150 for filming and using the image of a Virginia Beach woman without her written consent. The jury ordered Mantra Films Inc. to pay $150 in compensatory damages and $60,000 in punitive damages. The jury returned its verdict after deliberating for about two hours. The trial began Tuesday. The California company travels the country to videotape young women exposing their breasts at events and venues such as Mardi Gras and spring break beach resorts. “They needed a smack-down, and they got...