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Interesting question... and you've motivated me to write an article for my site about this case...
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Thanks for your insight. Please link that here when you have it up.
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Originally Posted by pornlaw
But in short, the answer is maybe under a theory of conspiracy. It depends on what the producer knew and what did that producer do in furtherance of the coercion.
Look at the fact that the admin assistant for GDP, who was a woman, never raped anyone or kidnapped anyone, she was merely a part of the enterprise and she's looking at life imprisonment too -- for basically being an employee and doing what her boss told her to do.
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She could have been thrown in on the indictment knowing she would definitely flip on the other co-conspirators to lock the case up or because she was really Pratt's right hand man, or woman in this case, really helping to facilitate the whole conspiracy. Shit, she even kept a "cover your ass" journal. You don't keep those unless you know you're doing something wrong.
Part of me wonders is this an assault on the industry or really just a case of where GDP was 1) really egregious here, allegedly operating a complex conspiracy involving fake modeling agencies, fake models paid to represent fictitious videos they made, making models sign modeling contracts under duress, plying them with drugs and alcohol, keeping them locked in hotel rooms while being coerced into doing scenes they didn't want to do or they wouldn't be paid and 2) GDP getting a lot of press sensationalized the case, coupled with the own defendants testimony (holy crap that was dumb!), gave the government an easy case on a silver platter.
My guess is, if this was "joe blow" doing what GDP is alleged to have done with an iPhone getting this kind of media coverage instead of a commercial porn site, we'd see the same charges.