22 women claimed they'd been tricked into doing porn. A judge just awarded them $13 million
After they had participated in the film shoot, the women alleged they were horrified to discover that the final product had been posted on tube websites such as Pornhub. After they approached Girls Do Porn to try to take the content down, the women say, they were subject to an extended harassment campaign, in which Girls Do Porn producers would contact their friends and family to ensure they saw the videos.
In court, the lawyers for Girls Do Porn alleged that the owners of the website waged no such harassment campaign against the women who appeared in the videos, and that any harassment they faced was the work of anonymous online trolls. The defendants’ lawyers also alleged that the contract the women signed gave Girls Do Porn the right to use the videos “anywhere, anyhow, for any purpose.”
In his ruling, Judge Enright sided with the plaintiffs, ruling that the “fraudulent scheme” had led to the women experiencing significant emotional and reputational harm. As a result of appearing in the videos, Judge Enright wrote, the women had become “pariahs in their communities,” causing some to lose their jobs or even become suicidal.
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