The wife of the billionaire owner of Pornhub’s parent company wants her husband to cut ties with the smut platform that has been mired in controversy.
Priscila Bergmair told the Sunday Times that her husband Bernd Bergmair — the 52-year-old majority owner of MindGeek — “wishes he was not in this” and expressed her “hope” for him to separate himself from the porn website.
MindGeek was hit with a federal class action lawsuit in February, alleging the company hosted multiple rape videos of teen sex-trafficking victims.
The suit claims the company profited from the alleged videos and did nothing to verify the ages or consent of those depicted.
“It’s not easy. It’s something, maybe, that the government has to work on … making rules,” Priscila told the newspaper Friday outside the couple’s London pad.
“Everyone wants the best to be done. Because people have children. I have children now … We all want things to be right,” she said.
Priscila said she and her husband “had nothing to do” with the alleged content.
“To be honest I never knew of this. I was totally out of this … The only thing he told me is that he wishes he was not in this, and I think he will not be very soon,” she said.