SAN DIEGO — Michael Pratt, former owner of the rogue website GirlsDoPorn, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on Thursday to sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking charges, according to a report by City News Service.
As XBIZ reported last year, Pratt initially pled not guilty when he made his first appearance in federal court in March 2024, after being extradited from Spain.
Pratt was captured in Madrid in 2022 after having been a fugitive since leaving the U.S. in 2019, and on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list since 2021. His capture was requested by U.S. authorities through an Interpol Red Notice in a 19-count indictment for “sex trafficking, production of child pornography, sex trafficking of a minor, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments in connection with the operation of the GirlsDoPorn adult website.”
XBIZ covered the GDP saga extensively, as well as the trials and sentencing of Pratt’s associates, including producer and performer Doug Wiederhold, cameraman Alexander Brian Foster, GDP second-in-command Matthew Wolfe, videographer Theodore Gyi, recruiter and performer Ruben Andre “Dre” Garcia, and bookkeeper Valorie Moser.
For an extensive recap of the GirlsDoPorn case, see XBIZ’s 2019 overview of the case.
As noted in the City News Service report, Pratt is due to be sentenced September 12.