Jenna Rickert Lawsuit: Verdict, Federal Case, and Pornhub Suits

September 9, 2026

Jenna Rickert is one of 22 named plaintiffs in the civil fraud lawsuit against GirlsDoPorn.com that ended in a $12.7 million judgment in January 2020. The Jenna Rickert lawsuit, filed in San Diego County Superior Court in 2016 as Jane Doe Nos. 1-22 v. GirlsDoPorn.com, accused the site’s operators of luring young women into pornography through deceptive Craigslist ads and false promises that the videos would never appear online. Rickert is among the few plaintiffs publicly identified by name in a case where most women sued as Jane Does.{{¹}}

What the Lawsuit Alleged

The plaintiffs sued GirlsDoPorn.com along with owner Michael James Pratt, producer and on-camera performer Ruben Andre Garcia, business partner Matthew Isaac Wolfe, and related corporate entities. The complaint brought claims for fraud, concealment, false promises, misappropriation of likeness, and violations of California’s unfair business practices statute. Rickert was represented by attorney Brian M. Holm.{{¹}}

According to the plaintiffs, the operation ran as a bait-and-switch. Craigslist ads offered clothed modeling work. Once women arrived in San Diego, they were pressured into filming pornographic videos, with repeated verbal assurances that the footage would only be sold on DVDs overseas and would never reach the internet or anyone they knew. To make the pitch stick, the defendants paid “reference models” to give scripted testimonials to new recruits claiming they had filmed shoots that never surfaced online. The operators preferred oral promises over written ones, which made it harder for the women to later prove what they had been told.{{²}}

The Verdict and Damages

The case went to a 99-day bench trial before Judge Kevin A. Enright starting August 19, 2019.{{³}} On January 2, 2020, Judge Enright ruled for all 22 plaintiffs on every claim, found that the defendants had operated a “fraudulent scheme,” and declared the contracts the women signed invalid and unenforceable as part of that fraud.{{⁴}}

The court awarded $12.7 million in total: $9.45 million in compensatory damages and $3.3 million in punitive damages, with individual awards ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 per plaintiff.{{⁵}} The judge also ordered the defendants to remove all of the plaintiffs’ videos from the internet and gave the women full rights to their own images and likenesses.{{⁴}}

What Happened to the Women After the Videos Surfaced

The court found that the operators didn’t just break their privacy promises. They actively worked to expose the women, leaking real names and personal information to boost viewership and sending videos directly to friends, family, classmates, employers, and social media contacts to push the content viral. Victims’ names also appeared on the doxxing site pornwikileaks.com, and Pratt continued the operation after learning the women were being identified there.{{⁶}}

The consequences described in court records were severe: depression, anxiety, PTSD, suicide attempts, job losses, and destroyed relationships. Some victims legally changed their names. Others had cosmetic surgery to alter their appearance.{{⁶}}

Retaliation reached the civil plaintiffs directly. In mid-2019, Pratt and Wolfe hired cameraman Alexander Brian Foster to produce a video titled “22 Whores and 5 Shady Lawyers,” scripted to reveal each plaintiff’s full name and city of residence alongside clips from their explicit videos and legal depositions. The video was never publicly released, and Foster later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit stalking in connection with it.{{⁷}} Attorney Brian Holm, who represented Rickert and the other plaintiffs, reported having his tires slashed, receiving 600 spam calls a day at his office, and finding defamatory articles and fake websites created to damage his firm.{{⁸}}

How the Civil Case Fed the Federal Criminal Prosecution

The civil trial overlapped with a federal investigation. In October 2019, a grand jury in the Southern District of California indicted Pratt, Wolfe, Garcia, Theodore Gyi, Valorie Moser, and Amberlyn Dee Nored on charges including sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. Prosecutors described a conspiracy that targeted women ages 18 to 20, generated over $17 million in revenue, and drove traffic through free sites like Pornhub.{{⁹}}

Garcia pleaded guilty in December 2020 and received 20 years in federal prison.{{¹⁰}} Wolfe pleaded guilty in July 2022 and was sentenced to 14 years in March 2024.{{⁹}} Gyi received four years. Moser was sentenced to two years in December 2025.{{¹¹}} Charges against Nored were dropped in November 2021 “to satisfy the ends of justice,” prosecutors said.{{¹²}}

Pratt’s Capture, Guilty Plea, and Restitution Order

Pratt fled the United States in 2019 after the civil trial opened and the federal indictment was unsealed. He became the 529th person placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Spanish National Police arrested him in Madrid on December 21, 2022, on an Interpol Red Notice.{{¹³}} After extradition, he first appeared in federal court in San Diego on March 19, 2024, and initially pleaded not guilty to 19 felony counts.{{¹⁴}}

On June 5, 2025, Pratt pleaded guilty to one count of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion and one count of conspiracy.{{¹⁵}} In September 2025, U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino sentenced him to 27 years in federal prison.{{⁶}} In February 2026, Judge Sammartino ordered Pratt to pay $75.6 million in restitution to 106 victims: $16.9 million reflecting the operation’s gross income and $58.6 million covering victims’ individual losses. Pratt is currently held at a medium-security federal facility in Victorville, California, with a projected release date in 2045, and has filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.{{¹⁶}}

The Follow-On Lawsuits Against Pornhub

The civil action Rickert joined was not the last. In December 2020, nearly 60 women sued MindGeek (now Aylo Media S.A.R.L.), the parent company of Pornhub, in San Diego federal court for hosting GirlsDoPorn videos. That case settled roughly a year later on undisclosed terms.{{¹⁷}} In October 2023, another 62 women (Jane Doe Nos. 60 through 121) filed a second suit accusing Aylo of partnering with GirlsDoPorn and ignoring signs of sex trafficking. That case seeks at least $10 million per plaintiff and remains active, though stayed pending completion of the criminal proceedings.{{¹⁸}} Pornhub’s parent company also agreed in 2023 to pay over $1.8 million to resolve a federal criminal probe tied to its hosting of GirlsDoPorn content.{{¹⁵}}

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