they are not going to see a dime of that money. that verdict is nothing more than a symbolic victory.
Joint liability
The judge awarded each woman $300,000 to $550,000 in compensatory damages and an additional $150,000 in punitive damages. In total, the defendants collectively owe the women $12.8 million.
A big question now is how much the women will actually be able to collect. As mentioned above, ringleader Pratt has fled the country and may not be easy to track down. The other two men, Andre Garcia and Matthew Wolfe, have been arrested in a related criminal case, however it's not clear what assets they have. The judge awarded the damages jointly against all of the defendants, so the action has a good shot at bankrupting all three of them.
Remarkably, despite a high-profile lawsuit and a criminal prosecution, the GirlsDoPorn website is still online. At least one new woman's video was
posted online during last fall's trial. The plaintiffs' lawyers will have to figure out who currently owns the site—likely some kind of overseas shell company—and where they keep their funds.
If the defendants do try to continue operating GirlsDoPorn, the judge ordered them to stop lying about where the videos go. He ordered them to prominently disclose in contracts that women are shooting for GirlsDoPorn—and to send the contracts to prospective models before they set foot on an airplane. Of course, with the principals in jail or on the lam, it's not clear how they'll find time to try to recruit new models for the site.
BTW, that dude was a real piece of shit in multiple ways:
The women were also promised that their confidentiality would be protected. Instead, their real-life identities quickly circulated online, causing them immense embarrassment with friends and family. Pratt himself owned PornWikiLeaks, a site dedicated to outing the women on sites like GirlsDoPorn, for several months. The judge found substantial circumstantial evidence that Pratt personally seeded the site with private information about GirlsDoPorn women.