[8][5] Pornography produced by the company, which was based in San Diego, California, was in the style of a 'casting couch', featuring women who were not professional pornographic actors.

Women who responded to fake modeling advertisements on Craigslist were put into contact with 'reference girls' who pretended to have had positive experiences with the company.

[2][9][13] Subjects of the videos have reported adverse effects including suicidal ideation, physical harassment, and the loss of jobs and accommodation.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported in 2011 that GT Group Limited was founded by a man associated with arms smuggling, drug gangs, and tax fraud.

[9][32] By 2017, its parent corporation were Oh Well Media Limited, a company based in Port Vila, Vanuatu, which is an offshore tax haven according to the San Diego Reader.

[42] Lawsuits filed against Pornhub's parent company, Aylo (then MindGeek) focus on its partnership with GirlsDoPorn and alleged hosting of such videos from 2011 to December 2020 despite repeated requests for removal by subjects.

Following this period, Vice reported that XVideos, XNXX, and Spankbang had removed many GirlsDoPorn videos on their sites and ensured that the search term "Girls Do Porn" returned no results.

[43][36] Discussion website Reddit had a forum, "r/girlsdoporn", which began in 2013 and was dedicated to posting links and videos as well as the identities of the women featured on GirlsDoPorn.

A YouTube video that harassed four women in relation to GirlsDoPorn, with comments giving their identifying information, reached roughly 2 million views.

One attorney pursuing legal actions reported that he and his co-counsel communicated with 150 women who said that they were misled during their experience filming videos for GirlsDoPorn.

[9] Michael Pratt, Matthew Wolfe and Andre Garcia often used aliases when dealing with the girls they recruited and never revealed their real names.

[2] They claimed that the footage would be used only for DVDs sold to private buyers and independent video stores in Australia, New Zealand, or South America and would never be released online or in the United States in any form.

[9][10] There were instances where women were lured to San Diego under the false pretense of a clothed or nude modeling shoot if they declined initial offers to film pornography.

[14] In the lawsuit's 187-page proposed statement of decision, the release form is described as purposefully long and vague, written with an intent to obscure the true nature and character of the video's distribution.

[7] Accounts of the women document that if they expressed pain or refused to continue, they were told that it was too late to withdraw, and in some cases the exit was physically blocked by the men.

Another frequently used tactic was to cut pay after the scene was shot by citing body flaws even though the models had sent nude photos clearly showing whatever blemishes and tattoos they had.

[30] Personal information of the women was posted online, including contact details, former high schools and places of employment, and both their and their families' full names, social media profiles and home addresses.

[47] Donny Long (legal name Donald Carlos Seoane), who was also connected to Porn Wikileaks, was arrested in December 2023 over human trafficking charges that were unrelated to the GirlsDoPorn federal criminal case.

[49] In June 2016, lawyer Carrie Goldberg contracted the cybersecurity and cyber intelligence firm Fortalice, LLC to investigate the identities of the owners of GirlsDoPorn.

Intelligence professional Charles DeBarber identified Wolfe and Pratt as the owners of GirlsDoPorn, not an offshore entity linked to the Panama Papers in Vanuatu, and their main recruiter/male performer as Ruben Andre Garcia.

[59] On December 21, 2022, Pratt was arrested in a hotel in Madrid, Spain by the Spanish National Police pursuant to an Interpol Red Notice.

[66] In November 2021, the U.S. Attorney's Office told the federal judge overseeing the criminal case that the sex trafficking charge against Amberlyn Dee Nored was being dismissed "to satisfy the ends of justice".

[69][70] He reported that harassing posts on social media and pornography blogs were made about himself, his wife and young daughter, and that a private investigator was hired to follow him.

[55] FBI agents found a planned video script, "22 Whores + 5 Shady Lawyers VS GirlsDoPorn", which encouraged viewers to spread the real names of the plaintiffs.

[73] In the injunction, the court ordered GirlsDoPorn to clearly state in bold and centered at the top of the first page of their model agreement that the video was going to be published on GirlsDoPorn.com.

[22][75] In January 2021, Gyi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion; he lied to performers that their videos would not be posted on the Internet.

[79][80][81] On January 24, 2023, cameraman Alexander Brian Foster was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit stalking and he pleaded guilty the same day.

[85][86] In 2022, Domi Publications—the operator of MomPOV formerly owned by Pratt—sued two of the lawyers who defended GirlsDoPorn for malpractice, alleging that they declined a settlement of $16,000 a few weeks before the trial.

[19][20] On December 16, 2020, 40 women involved with GirlsDoPorn filed a lawsuit against Aylo (then MindGeek)—a company that owns Pornhub, Tube8, and other pornography websites—for damages including distress, ostracization, trauma and attempted suicide.

[91] On September 8, 2023, a woman who filmed multiple videos for GirlsDoPorn filed a federal civil case against Aylo and its owners Ethical Capital Partners.