SAN DIEGO, Calif.—The news continues to trickle out from the trial of GirlsDoPorn, its owner Michael Pratt, lensman Matthew Wolfe and actor/director Andre Garcia, along with several attached companies—and this time, it's the revelation that even as the trial, now in its sixth week, continues, the company is still placing ads on Craigslist in an attempt to find unwitting young women to do their first hardcore scenes—and the revelation comes from none other than Wolfe himself.
That Wolfe testified at this point is surprising, since the plaintiffs, Jane Does 1-22, have not yet rested their case, and assuming that Wolfe remains a defendant—a status AVN has been unable to confirm—his testimony, which was taken on Wednesday, should not have occurred (if it were to occur at all) until it was time for the defense to present its case.
But the fact remains that it did happen, and plaintiffs' attorney Brian Holm elicited some surprising revelations from him. For one, Wolfe testified that he continues to upload the videos he and others have shot for the company, in upscale hotels around the city, to the GirlsDoPorn.com website—even though the contracts the performers sign do not mention websites at all, and according to prior testimony from several Jane Does, each was promised that such uploading would not happen, and that their scenes would only be seen on DVDs sold in Europe and the Far East. Nevertheless, the scenes have been posted to several adult websites, including Pornhub.
"That’s where almost all of pornography that’s produced goes,” Wolfe stated, confirming that the videos shot by GirlsDoPorn were only posted online, never distributed on DVD.
“When the videos are filmed, it could go on one of a couple of sites,” Wolfe said, adding that Garcia is still recruiting performers for the scheme—some as recently as the last week in September.
According to an article posted on Courthouse News, Wolfe said the reason the GirlsDoPorn website wasn't mentioned in the women's contracts was "in order to protect employees from 'online trolls' who had harassed Wolfe and others and posted their personal information online." In fact, the identities and addresses of several performers were revealed on the now-defunct pirate website PornWikiLeaks—and Wolfe claimed not to have provided that information because "I was there for filming and camera work. I was not involved in casting."
Also, in contradiction to the testimony of several Jane Does, Wolfe claimed that "if models asked where their videos would be posted, he’d only tell them it would be published online but wouldn’t provide more details," Courthouse News reported, adding in an apparent self-contradiction that Wolfe said the women "didn't ask" where their videos would be published. The plaintiffs have each testified that they were told the scenes would not be published online at all, only on DVDs.
The Courthouse News story also provided an update on Michael Pratt, noting that Wolfe stated he's spoken with his boss on the phone on Tuesday, but had no idea as to Pratt's current location, or whether Pratt would testify at the trial, but that he was still operating the business from wherever he is located. Holm has said he believes Pratt flew from San Diego back to his native New Zealand before the trial started.
The trial is expected to continue for several more weeks.
