A 42-year-old Southern California man, founder and operator of two internet porn sites – GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys – that earned him millions of dollars was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison Monday, officials with the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

Michael James Pratt made it onto the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Top 10 Most Wanted List in 2019 when he liquidated his assets and fled the country just months before he was charged in the Southern District of California with sex trafficking crimes, the DOJ said in a news release.

The 42-year-old lived as an international fugitive until his Dec. 2022 arrest in Spain and his extradition to San Diego in March 2024.

Federal prosecutors said that Pratt, along with four co-conspirators, orchestrated a scheme “that deceived and

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