SAN DIEGO — MomPOV producer Doug Wiederhold, who was formerly the partner of GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt as well as the first male talent for GDP, was indicted last month on five counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and one count of conspiracy to commit the same alleged crime.
According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, the indictment — which charges Pratt as a co-conspirator — “contains few details but alleges that the sex trafficking involved five separate victims and occurred between January 2011 and March 2012.”
As XBIZ reported, New Zealander Pratt emigrated to the U.S. in 2007 planning to launch his own POV porn paysite and found his first male talent, Wiederhold, on Craigslist.
From 2007 to 2009, according to the filing in the civil case brought by 22 former models against Pratt and other GirlsDoPorn associates in 2016-2017, Wiederhold and Pratt “traveled from city to city filming videos of amateur girls in hotel rooms across the United States.” Pratt held on to the videos until, after amassing a two-year backlog of hotel hookups, he finally launched GirlsDoPorn in 2009. It is not clear how then-recent immigrant Pratt funded his and Wiederhold’s living expenses during that pre-launch period, plus production and talent costs for hundreds of hours of content.
Ruben André “Dre” Garcia replaced Wiederhold as main GirlsDoPorn talent in 2011, also serving as a model recruiter for the site. Pratt promoted Wiederhold — who sometimes went by “James” — to his own sub-brand, a spinoff MILF website called MomPOV, which they owned 50/50 and operated from Las Vegas.
Pratt escaped the U.S. before federal charges against the company and its employees were unsealed in 2019, and was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list from 2021 until he was captured in Madrid, Spain last December. Although there has been no news about Pratt’s whereabouts since his arrest, the San Diego Union-Tribute reports that he is presumed to be still in a Spanish jail awaiting extradition.
In June 2021, Garcia was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion.
Wiederhold and MomPOV, the Union-Tribune reports, “have long been connected with the GirlsDoPorn civil cases, but until last month, he had avoided the criminal charges that had ensnared Pratt and others. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego declined to comment on the indictment or the timing of it.”
