Influencer Lucy Guo sued for allegedly allowing child porn on her social media platform billed as OnlyFans minus the nudity
High-flying “Miami party girl” and tech influencer Lucy Guo has been named in a class-action lawsuit alleging she and her subscription-based social media platform for influencers, Passes, knowingly recruited underage girls to create and distribute child pornography to members.The bombshell suit alleges how Passes and one of the explicit site’s agents, Alec Celestin, took pains to hide the alleged sexual exploitation of the teen plaintiffs, and that Guo herself “personally intervened” to override the site’s internal restrictions to strip underage content creators of protections put in place to protect minors.Guo has vigorously denied the accusations.
According to the suit, between July and September of last year, Celestin and Lani Ginoza, the site’s erstwhile director of talent, instructed lead plaintiff and OnlyFans model Alice Rosenblum — who was allegedly 17 at the time — to “create images and videos of herself engaged in sexually explicit conduct” and upload them on the site via its data storage system known as “The Vault.”It further alleges that both Passes and Guo knew Rosenblum was underage but never took any steps to thwart the content from being made available, and that the site allegedly remains in possession of pornographic images and videos of the then-underaged girls who make up the class members.Celestin and Ginoza, the suit claims, used Passes’ internet messaging system to market, sell and distribute the illicit images to customers in exchange for money.Passes, which bills itself as providing “the tools to help creators become entrepreneurs,” boasts more than 500,000 subscribers, and 1,000 content creators, including big names like actress Bella Thorne, NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal and gymnast and influencer Livvy Dunne.Between July 2023 and February 2024, Passes raised more than $49 million from a who’s who of angel investors and venture funds, including YouTuber Jake Paul’s Anti Fund, Paris Hilton and Bruce Gersh...