18: ** Paid Modeling Gig. ** - a podcast by Stephanie Bee
from 2020-05-14T04:04:07
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Read the episode script:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1971bcy15t1CufTOH45As_6yMqPmvnN7-6lQfku2ekmE/
I didn't find it until after I'd written my script, but this subreddit has an awful lot of collected materials for further reading. Unfortunately, it's full of redditors who seem to have an encyclopedic knowledge of these victimization films. Gross.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlsDoLawsuits/
As I mentioned in the episode, VICE's reporting on this case has been surprisingly good.
Bianca Bruno has been amazing at covering the legal aspect of this story:
https://www.courthousenews.com/porn-company-employee-says-recruiting-continues-during-fraud-trial/
https://www.courthousenews.com/months-long-trial-over-bait-and-switch-porn-scheme-kicks-off/
Pratt files for bankruptcy to delay the case:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VTBlXG5dcdm242fIyxkBzCQWgYhlYppG/view
Pratt flees the US
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12275965
The conspirators are charged with sex trafficking:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvgxvw/girls-do-porn-employees-charged-with-sex-trafficking-potentially-face-life-in-prison
One of their fake shell companies:
https://www.zoominfo.com/c/bll-media-inc/383265205
The VICE story that interviews Monica:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjkdw/she-helped-expose-girls-do-porn-but-she-can-never-outrun-what-it-did-to-her?utm_source=stylizedembed_vice.com&utm_campaign=8xwep4&site=vice
Sanford Heisler Sharp LLC:
https://sanfordheisler.com/case/girlsdoporn-com-lawsuit/
Yale Law School’s Yiqin Fu’s twitter thread translating posts about the chinese facial recognition app: https://web.archive.org/web/20190529205522/https://twitter.com/yiqinfu/status/1133215940936650754
A folder of pdf files I read during my research:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o61fH_d3reOnsdPMIiN4OcawTcPAwa_T?usp=sharing
Finally, a personal note. I meant what I said when I called out "you true crime sickos". I do not like true crime and I do not want Ephemera to ever be a true crime podcast. However, it's impossible to look at the Internet holistically without discussing its ability to empower criminals. But abuse, rape, and criminal deception are not what I like to listen to stories about, and even less appealing to me to research. Thank you for understanding.
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