Pornhub’s parent company has settled a lawsuit filed by 50 women who said they were victims of a sex trafficking operation.
The women said Girls Do Porn, an adult content provider, coerced them into having sex on camera and lied about how the material would be shared.
The 50 women had sued Pornhub, alleging that the company was aware of the allegations but still pursued a partnership.
The terms of the settlement have not been made public.
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In a statement, Pornhub’s parent company MindGeek said it has zero tolerance for posting illegal content on its platforms.
“The parties have reached a mutual resolution to resolve the dispute and the terms are confidential,” Brian Holm, the lawyer who represented the women, said in an emailed statement.
Girls Do Porn was part of MindGeek’s partner programs until October 2019, when the US Department of Justice effectively shut down the porn producer by arresting and charging its senior executives with sex trafficking and other offenses.
He had uploaded many explicit videos to Pornhub and other public websites. Pornhub removed these videos after US authorities filed charges against Girls Do Porn.
“Modeling” jobs
Girls Do Porn has reportedly been exploited by advertising for modeling jobs. The young women who applied later learned that the job was actually making pornographic videos.
They were reportedly told that the work would be anonymous and that their videos would not be published on the web, but would be made for DVDs from private collectors or distant markets. However, the videos were then released publicly through sites such as Pornhub, according to US lawyers.
In the lawsuit for damages against Mindgeek, it was alleged that the victims had sent the company “complaints detailing the fraud and coercion to which they were subjected by Girls Do Porn”, but the company had not terminated the complaint. partnership. The first court case on behalf of the victims was filed in June 2016.
“MindGeek has zero tolerance for posting illegal content on its platforms and has a comprehensive, industry-leading trust and security policy in place to identify and eradicate any illegal content from its community,” said MindGeek in a statement.
“We are committed to staying at the forefront of internet security and taking all measures to prevent bad actors from posting illegal content online.”
The company also suspended content uploaded by users in December 2020 following a separate set of allegations involving child abuse and rape videos.
The initial lawsuit against MindGeek was filed in December last year, on behalf of 40 plaintiffs. The number of complainants then rose to 50.
The women named in the lawsuit were referred to by the pseudonym Jane Doe and a number. They were each claiming more than $ 1 million (£ 739,000) in damages and had requested a jury trial.
Several of those involved in Girls Do Porn have since been convicted, including Ruben Andre Garcia, who worked as a recruiter, producer and actor for Girls Do Porn, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in November.
“This defendant has lured victim after victim with bogus model ads, false promises and deceptive shell companies, eventually evolving into threats to coerce these women into making sex videos,” the US prosecutor said by interim Randy Grossman in a statement issued at the time of his conviction. .
The FBI is currently seeking to arrest former Girls Do Porn co-owner Michael James Pratt for allegedly coercing young women into filming sexually explicit content for the site.
Earlier this month, the bureau increased its maximum reward for information leading to Mr Pratt’s arrest to $ 50,000 (£ 36,450).
The FBI said it believed its alleged victims numbered in the hundreds.