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Women Lured By Modeling Gigs, Coerced Into Porn, Win $13M In Lawsuit

The amateur models were told that their adult films would only be seen on DVDs overseas; instead, the videos were posted online and their identities were leaked.

One by one, amateur models came across the Craigslist ad that promised to help launch their careers. And one by one, those women learned they were expected to do more than just pose for pictures.

A California judge has ruled that the owners of a San Diego-based pornographic website has to pay $13 million in damages after they defrauded 22 women in order to get them to perform in explicit

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