Doe 15, who began her testimony on Aug. 21, first encountered Pratt's business in February 2016. She was 18 at the time, in college, and looking for a job on Craigslist. She had been applying to jobs for a few months—some at local restaurants and sandwich shops, some for random gigs, but mostly for modeling or brief acting jobs. She found one listing titled "Exceptionally Cute Ladies Wanted." It linked to a website called BeginModeling.com, an unremarkable-looking webpage with several professional photos of women and a contact form. Doe 15 said she filled out the form—identifying her height, weight, hair color, and eye color—and attached a few pictures. She got a response not long later, but didn't reply. "It was pretty clear it was adult work," Doe 15 said, "and I wasn't interested in doing that."
Not long after the first email, Doe 15 was contacted again—this time, by a man who called himself "Jonathan N.," which the plaintiffs' attorney, Brian Holm, and several witnesses claim was a pseudonym for both Pratt and his male actor, Andre Garcia. Doe 15 says she FaceTimed with "Jonathan N." because he suggested that there was an option to do clothed modeling shoots for $300 each. But on the call, "Jonathan N." kept returning to the topic of nude modeling.
"He said it would be 30 minutes of filming sex," Doe 15 recalled in court. "He said it would be $5,000 dollars. He said specifically about five positions, five to seven minutes each. He would fly me out to San Diego, pay for a hotel. And then he just repeatedly said, 'Not online, not online, not in the U.S.' It would be on DVDs to Australia, the UK. And then he said a few other really remote countries, I don't remember. And then I asked if I could just do regular modeling, and he said no, it had to be both."
