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The fiendish founder of GirlsDoPorn — who was once on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list — has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking after three years on the run.
Michael Pratt, 42, either tricked or forced hundreds of women — mostly teenagers — to appear in pornographic videos, usually by pretending it was a private casting call for lucrative modelling gigs, according to the Department of Justice.
He fled the United States in 2019 and hid out in Spain for more than three years until his arrest in December 2022.
The New Zealander and his employees — many of whom were also convicted — started operating out of San Diego in 2012.
They would lure the women under the pretense of a modeling gig and then tell them they would be performing sex acts in an adult video.
He would tell the women that the videos would never be posted online, that the videos would never be released in the US and that their friends, family and colleagues would never find out — which was a lie, the DOJ said.
If the women told Pratt they wanted to stop making the video, he and other co-conspirators would threaten to sue the women, cancel their flights home or post the videos online.
GirlsDoPorn and its sister sister site, GirlsDoToys, which featured many of the same girls, garnered millions of views and promoted their videos on popular free porn sites like Pornhub, the DOJ said.
Pratt made “millions of dollars” off the adult content, which was mostly filmed in hotels or short-term house rentals in and around San Diego.
The porn director confessed to assuring an 18-year-old woman who responded to a Craigslist ad for “Bubblegum Casting” that her adult video would only be shared with private clients in Australia. Pratt rushed Victim 1 through a contract and did not provide her with a copy, prosecutors said.
Nine months after filming the sex video at a hotel, for which the teen was paid $2,000, Pratt posted the clip to GirlsDoPorn. The woman reached out to Pratt and begged him to take the video down — but he did not reply and did not remove the video.
Pratt was extradited to San Diego in March 2024.
He pleaded guilty to leading the sex trafficking ring from 2012 to 2019, which earned him more than $17 million.
He faces life in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced on September 8.
Co-founder Matthew Isaac Wolfe, also of New Zealand, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on March 20, 2024.
Ruben Andre Garcia, the male model who engaged in sex acts on video with the women, was sentenced to 20 years in 2021.
Cameraman Theodore Gyi was hit with 4 years on November 9, 2022
Valorie Moser, the office manager, is set for sentencing on September 12, 2025.
