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Aylo Holdings Admits to Profiting from Sex Trafficking, Agrees to Pay $1.845 Million Fine

The parent company of Pornhub will also provide payments to victims and be monitored by the Justice Department for three years.

Aylo Holdings, the parent company of Pornhub, has admitted to profiting from sex trafficking and has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with U.S. prosecutors.
Under the agreement, Aylo will pay a criminal fine and forfeiture totaling $1.845 million to the U.S. government and provide payments to victims of the sex-trafficking content operators whose images were posted on Aylo’s platforms.
The Justice Department will assign a monitor for a three-year period to assess Aylo’s compliance with the agreement and its processes for identifying and removing illegal content from its platforms.
Between 2017 and 2019, Aylo received money that the company “knew or should have known was derived from” the GirlsDoPorn operators’ sex trafficking operations.
Aylo is owned by private-equity firm Ethical Capital Partners, which acquired predecessor company MindGeek for undisclosed financial terms earlier this year.