SAN DIEGO – Aylo asked a federal judge in California during a hearing Monday to drop human trafficking claims in a sweeping lawsuit filed by a former GirlsDoPorn model.
Kristy Althaus’ 2023 lawsuit claims she was “sex trafficked” by GirlsDoPorn, and that “she was raped on camera and had her reputation destroyed by Pornhub when it illegally hosted and promoted the video through social media channels,” Law 360 reported.
Aylo’s attorneys argued that Althaus’ lawsuit is “full of outrageous claims and that the court lacks jurisdiction over some defendants.”
Marc E. Mayer of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP told U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald that the defendants are concerned that the complaint is “exploding into all kinds of places where it really doesn’t need to.”
Aylo’s parent company Ethical Capital Partners (ECP) “filed its own separate motion to dismiss, arguing that the court lacked personal jurisdiction, or alternatively that the lawsuit did not establish a claim,” Law 360 reported. The other eight Aylo defendants have since its initial publication in 2014, “filed a motion to dismiss with various arguments, including that some claims fall outside the statute of limitations.”
Judge Fitzgerald “issued a preliminary ruling prior to the hearing, which was not made public,” Law 360 reported.