GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt, a fugitive believed to be in New Zealand, was charged Thursday for allegedly producing child porn and sex trafficking related to a 2012 incident involving a 16-year-old.
Read moreJoining the 22 women who testified before her, an additional witness – Jane Doe “A” – testified in the fraud civil trial against GirlsDoPorn Thursday giving a first-hand account of what the company’s videographer had previously admitted: the porn company is still recruiting women and posting new videos online in the midst of trial.
Read moreA forensic pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epstein’s brother said Wednesday that evidence suggested the disgraced financier had not died by suicide in his jail cell but had been murdered.
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Bringing the latest in a string of legal actions across the country that attempts to hold hotels accountable for sex trafficking, an anonymous plaintiff accused two hotel chains in a federal complaint Tuesday of looking the other way as a young girl was trafficked in their guest rooms.
Read moreThe day after an online porn purveyor removed GirlsDoPorn’s videos and less than a week after federal prosecutors filed sex trafficking charges against its owners and operators, GirlsDoPorn lost a bid to stay the months-long civil trial brought by women who say they were duped to appear in its videos.
Read moreGirlsDoPorn’s administrative assistant Valorie Moser made her initial appearance in the Southern District of California Friday after criminal sex trafficking charges were unsealed Thursday against the online porn company. Moser is accused of conspiracy in recruiting women to appear in the porn flicks. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 22.
Read moreAmidst a months-long civil fraud trial for allegedly engaging in a bait-and-switch scheme to get women to appear in pornographic videos shot in San Diego, the owner and operators of GirlsDoPorn were criminally indicted on sex trafficking charges Thursday.
Read moreAttorneys for Alan Dershowitz told a federal judge Tuesday that a telephone recording of Boies Schiller partner David Boies discredits defamation claims against the former Harvard professor brought by Virginia Giuffre, one of at least 20 women who say Jeffrey Epstein trafficked them to a who’s who of the international elite.
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Two women who say they were victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring lost a decade-long battle in Florida federal court Monday when a judge shot down their demand to punish prosecutors for keeping them in the dark about the wealthy money manager’s favorable plea deal.
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Convicted sex-cult leader Keith Raniere will not be sentenced until 2020, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis said at a hearing in Brooklyn Friday.
Read moreShortly before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in federal prison, a federal court unsealed a vast trove of files implicating heads of state, elected officials and other elite figures in the wealthy financier’s sex-trafficking web. This list could radically expand should the remainder of sealed files become public, a federal judge heard Wednesday.
Read moreA judge formally ended the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, with a final tribute to the women who spoke out against the late financier.
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One of the many women who have accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse has kept Britain’s Prince Andrew uncomfortably at the center of the ongoing investigation.
Read moreMore than a dozen victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse network gave voice to their traumatic stories in New York federal court Tuesday, two weeks after the finance tycoon hanged himself while awaiting trial in the neighboring jail.
Read moreBritain’s Prince Andrew insisted on Saturday that “at no stage” during his friendship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein did he “witness… any behavior of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest.”
Read moreThe chief Paris prosecutor announced Friday that he will investigate the rape of minors, age 15 and older, as well as other charges linked to the case of the late wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Read moreAs sordid Jeffrey Epstein stories pile up in lawsuits against the late sex offender’s estate, a new case filed Tuesday says Epstein forced one victim to marry a noncitizen recruiter in his vast sex-trafficking enterprise.
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Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in jail, court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a long battle over the financier’s fortune.
Read moreA New York City medical examiner ruled Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell death a suicide Friday, saying her autopsy showed that the millionaire sex offender hanged himself.
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