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Unresolved

GirlsDoPorn

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In 2013, a website featuring amateur pornography began making headlines across the United States - and later, the world.

Founded by New Zealander Michael Pratt in 2006, GirlsDoPorn was billed early on as "a reality website that features 18-21 year old females making their very first adult videos." For the next decade, Pratt would attempt to build an empire, recruiting his childhood friend Matthew Wolfe in 2011 and aspiring actor Ruben "Andre" Garcia later that same year to help him achieve his goals.

But by 2016, dozens of women featured on the site would turn against these three and the other employees of GirlsDoPorn, revealing that they had built nothing more than a criminal enterprise centered around fraud, deceptive practices, and malice...



Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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Theme music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Certain names in this episode have been changed or redacted to protect individual privacy.

0:05.8

This episode also contains graphic content and adult language that may not be suitable

0:10.2

for all ages.

0:11.5

Listener discretion is advised.

0:14.6

Megan was a young woman from the American Northeast who would become a foster child at the age

0:23.0

of 12.

0:24.0

She would spend the next handful of years in the foster system, at times struggling with

0:28.6

anxiety and depression.

0:30.9

While she struggled with these emotional issues at an earlier age than most, which she

0:35.3

described as common symptoms of children in foster care, she attempted to create a normal

0:40.3

life for herself.

0:42.2

Throughout school, Megan remained active in numerous events, in particular gymnastics,

0:47.8

which she performed in and taught to younger students during her teenage years.

0:52.4

This eventually led to her participating in cheerleading throughout high school.

0:56.4

She would even begin to appear in beauty pageants, which in turn introduced her to the wider

1:01.9

world of modeling.

1:03.7

Here, Megan realized, she could begin to create her own opportunities.

1:08.3

As a foster child, she did not have the same resources that other kids her age had, but

1:13.5

through pageants, she began to realize that modeling was a legitimate career path moving

1:18.4

forward, and could provide opportunities to not only earn decent pay, but to see the world,

1:24.3

with her 18th birthday coming and going, and her beginning to consider college, as well

1:29.1

as life in the adult world, as she aged out of the foster system.

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