In 2020 a female performer who is known only by the name “Jane Doe” filed a lawsuit against Zero Tolerance, Diabolic, Third Degree Films, Black Ice, and Elegant Angel, as well as a woman by the name of Cissy Steele.

In her lawsuit, which was filed in California, she claims she was sex trafficked and demanded relief.

She claims that this woman Cissy Steele (aka Miss Madame), lured and enticed her with false promises of lucrative acting and modeling opportunities but ended up selling her for sex.

She then sued the adult film production companies she worked for, saying they knowingly aided, abetted, facilitated, and participated in the sex trafficking scheme.

Steele preyed upon Jane Doe’s vulnerabilities and used means of fraud and coercion to sex traffic Jane Doe, including misrepresenting herself as a talent agent that could provide Jane Doe with lucrative modeling and acting opportunities, all the while intending to sex traffic her.

Steele coerced and lured Jane Doe to move into her home with her under false pretenses, namely, by fraudulently promising that she would make Jane Doe a model.

After Jane Doe moved in with Steele, Steele used psychological manipulation and coercion, intimidation tactics, threats, and physical violence to control, dominate and exploit Jane Doe.

Steele forced Jane Doe to engage in commercial sex acts with men at hotels in Los Angeles, CA and Las Vegas, NV, as well as other locations in Southern California, the details not specifically known to Jane Doe at this time. Steele forced Jane Doe to give her the money from these commercial sex acts so she could profit from trafficking Jane Doe.

Steele also forced Jane Doe to perform in pornographic videos for the Adult Film Companies against her will and Steele was paid directly by the Adult Film Companies for providing Jane Doe for use in their videos. The Adult Film Companies failed to pay Jane Doe for work performed on their behalf while she acted as an employee for them, although performing work involuntarily.

Sex trafficking occurs when a trafficker exploits an individual with force, fraud, or coercion to make them perform a commercial sex act.

Jane Doe goes on to claim that any and all model releases she may have signed were done so under duress.

This all went down between 2009 and 2011. The lawsuit was filed in 2020 and finally made its way through the courts. A decade later, and yet during all this time, nobody in the industry heard anything about it.

That, to me, was a red flag and got me digging a little more.

It took a few years for the lawsuit to make its way through the courts, but in the end, as of July 24, 2022, both parties have agreed to a confidential settlement, and in return, Jane Doe dropped the case. The settlement statements have been filed with the court however they are considered confidential, so there’s no way to know how much collectively the companies agreed to pay out.

No, it doesn’t appear they wanted money from this Cissy Steele, who she claimed sex trafficked her, they wanted money from the porn production companies themselves.

Do you want to hear the real interesting part of this case? Look at the plaintiff’s lawyer.

If you aren’t aware of who NCOSE is, they are the anti-porn organization that has been relentlessly attacking the adult industry and is the company directly responsible for getting Mastercard to cut off Pornhub.

And they won’t stop there.

Laila Micklewait says that moments before appearing on @CNBC  she searched PH and found “dozens of videos that would constitute trafficking, rape and completely non-consensual content” — and that PH allows them to be downloaded. 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1555635523292540928

As reported by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UNAIDS, GAATW, & OHCHR, Sex Work & sex trafficking are NOT the same. Sex Work involves the exchange of sex services between consenting adults, whereas sex trafficking involves coercion & exploitation.