SAN DIEGO — Over 200 videos that remain in the possession of Michael Pratt, owner of GirlsDoPorn, are worth more than $4.6 million dollars, according to the testimony of financial expert Robert Taylor on Monday in the civil trial against Pratt, his associate Matthew Wolfe and actor/recruiter Andre Garcia.
Taylor also testified that GirlsDoPorn made over $1 million from videos it produced of the plaintiffs in the trial, 22 women all identified as Jane Doe.
According to a report by Courthouse News, Taylor said "the value of the unpublished videos is not tied to the continued operation of the GirlsDoPorn website or its parent company BLL Media and is a fair estimate of what another website operator could stand to make if the videos were sold.”
The plaintiffs are nearly done with their case, which accuses GirlsDoPorn of lying about usage in order to convince the women to appear in their videos. According to the plaintiffs, the site had promised that their videos would only appear in DVDs sold overseas. Instead, the videos were posted on the GirlsDoPorn site, and on free streaming sites like Pornhub.
Attorneys for both sides on Monday jointly stipulated to the amount of money — $1,025,831.50 — the site made from the videos of the 22 Jane Does.
As reported by XBIZ, Pratt, Wolfe, Garcia, and Pratt’s assistant Valorie Moser have all been criminally charged with human trafficking in relation to their work with GirlsDoPorn.
Moser testified against Pratt at the civil trial, saying that Pratt had told her of a plan to sell his Lamborghini and his home in San Diego to avoid potential damages should the plaintiffs prevail in the civil trial.
Taylor testified that the proceeds from those sales were not included in his estimate of Pratt’s net income.
Defense attorneys tried to use the pending criminal charges to discredit Taylor’s estimate of the valuation of Pratt’s video library.
“Isn’t it reasonable to assume the fact the defendants who produced the 200 videos as under a federal criminal complaint would affect the value of those videos?” Kaplan asked.
“I do not know,” Taylor responded.
A recording of the deposition of Alicia McKay was also played in court Monday.
McKay, who appeared in two GirlsDoPorn videos, was later used by the company “to assuage women’s skepticism about appearing in GirlsDoPorn film,” according to Courthouse News.
She also claimed that she’d been told that her videos, and those of the women she helped bring on board, would only appear in DVDs sold overseas, which turned out not to be the case.
McKay testified she became suspicious when the plaintiffs would only speak vaguely in text communications, with important information being relayed through phone calls and video chats only. She decided to record a phone conversation with Garcia without his knowledge.
In the conversation, Garcia told McKay to “downplay it as much as possible” when the subject of where the videos would be sold was brought up.
“You’re just there to make sure she knows she’s not going to get raped, she’s not going to get killed, and she’s going to get paid,” Garcia is heard telling McKay.
Wolfe, Garcia and Moser have all been arraigned on criminal charges for human trafficking. All were arrested in a three-day span the week of October 10. Pratt remains a fugitive, having fled the country prior to start of the civil trial. Wolfe testified earlier in the trial that Pratt had returned to his native New Zealand.
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