SAN DIEGO — A federal court has ordered former GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt and his co-defendants in the GDP sex trafficking case to pay restitution totaling $75,568,283.47 to 106 victims.
U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California ordered Pratt and his former associates to pay GDP victims individual awards ranging from $440 to $6,646,043.
The former associates named in the order are GDP second-in-command Matthew Wolfe, videographer Theodore Gyi, recruiter and performer Ruben Andre “Dre” Garcia and bookkeeper Valorie Moser.
The restitution amount is likely to prove more symbolic than actual, as Pratt is currently serving a sentence of 27 years in federal prison. The order notes that under the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program, Pratt is required to pay 50% of his income or $25 per quarter, whichever is greater. Upon release from custody, he would then be required to pay at least $200 per month.
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.
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