SAN DIEGO — Former adult producer Doug Wiederhold, previously a business partner of GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt, was sentenced on Friday in federal court to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California sentenced Wiederhold after hearing testimony from victims.
Wiederhold was the last of several former Pratt associates to be sentenced in the case. Pratt himself was a fugitive before being captured in 2022 and ultimately sentenced to 27 years in federal prison in September 2025.
Wiederhold was indicted on multiple counts in 2023 and pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge in 2024, after government prosecutors dismissed the other charges.
Wiederhold met Pratt in 2007 through Craigslist and became the first male talent for GirlsDoPorn. 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.
Pratt later promoted Wiederhold to his spinoff brand MomPOV, which they owned 50/50 and operated from Las Vegas.
Eventually, accusations emerged that prospective GDP models were falsely promised that the films they made would never appear online, denied the ability to read contracts, actively misled about provisions, provided with intoxicants during negotiations and before shoots, mistreated, harassed, coerced and assaulted. Those allegations resulted in civil and criminal cases.
According to his plea agreement, Wiederhold performed in 71 GirlsDoPorn videos in the early years of the site and knowingly gave false assurances to women that their videos wouldn’t be posted online.
For XBIZ’s coverage of the GirlsDoPorn case, including the trials and sentencing of cameraman Alexander Brian Foster, GDP second-in-command Matthew Wolfe, videographer Theodore Gyi, recruiter and performer Ruben Andre “Dre” Garcia, and bookkeeper Valorie Moser, click here.
