on "america tonight": this is the show. >> the up and comer of this fashion week is 20-year-old august getty. >> there are people who would say you're treading often your name. >> you can't buy your way into this. you really can't no matter who you are where you're from. >> it started with a sexy romantic request but months later ann maria an english

professor in baltimore became a victim of revenge pornography. >> every fear went through my head, what if my students see theythis what if my colleagues see this? the main fear was how do i stop this? >> and thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. we begin with a view of love gone wrong. more than half of all americans admit they engage in sexting. regularly. that's okay but those images can have horrible consequence is when romance goes bad. adam may has the story. >> it started with a romantic request. >> he had asked i'd love to take some pictures of you you're is beautiful. >> but months later ann marie

became the victim of revenge porn. her videos posted online for everyone to see. >> an ex boyfriend had threatened, he was going to post a cd, consisting of 80 images of me. creating an ebay. the title was professor nude photos. what if my colleagues see this? how many other people see this, the main fear was how do i stop this? >> reporter: at the time, revenge porn sites were exploding on the internet. one of the most notorious is anyone up? it was separateby hunter moore. he pled guilty of identity theft, posting nude pictures

online. >> what do you think of this? >> the entire thing is shocking. >> adam steinbock is an investigator in los angeles he hunts down people who solicit and publish nonconsensual pornography. >> somebody is really hurting because somebody in a petty moment of revenge wanted to lash out at someone. but worst than that, operating these websites, and the pain they are causing. >> you mean extortion? >> yes almost every website has an extortionate reason for it. >> he's exposed more than half odozen revenge porn site operators. people like kevin the san diego man was quibted a convicted a few weeks

ago, running a revenge porn site called you got posted and change my reputation, victims of revenge porn had to pay to get their x rated pictures taken down. >> what i do is i send them an e-mail asking them a series of questions that i already know the answers to. they will first lie to me and i will send them another e-mail saying, you need to be honest, i know you're lying. but then it gets deleted i've already archived, taken screen shots and they're kind of screwed. >> it's tough to figure out who these revenge porn operators are isn't it? >> some of them are idiots, taking months or years to track down. >> i think some love it, i think some women love the attention. >> in 2014, "america tonight"

tracked down this woman where someone can submit pictures of a husband's mistress. >> where do the pictures come dwrfrom? >> from the man's cell phone. >> we discovered she's a home wrecker, kept posting those censored x rated pictures. but each picture has the accused mistress's name, city where she lives and intimate details. >> do you think you have a constitutional right to run this website? >> yes, i'm following tall laws, not doing anything illegal. your privacy is out the window, it's no longer a private photo. >> we're at an interesting

moment in culture and in our society to decide whether we're going to take certain forms of discrimination and harassment seriously. the fact that they occur online, i think we're coming around in society to see that that doesn't make them less real. >> mary ann franks is a law professor at the university of miami. she has advised legislatures around the country how to write laws making revenge porn illegal. 16 states have now criminalized the distribution of nonconsent nonconsential pornography. as a result, many revenge porn sites have shut down. >> the situation is there will always be one waiting in the wings. yes, can you take this one down today, but until we have very strong laws in place you won't see the end of revenge porn sites. >> operating out of foreign

countries, the feds can't do much about it because there's no federal legislation. >> federal criminal law would make it easier to go against revenge porn operators and be a symbolic powerful deterrent for anybody engaging in this behavior. it wouldn't be 50 dint states different states with 50 different approaches. >> some of those state laws have gray areas. in california for example bulliart was the first person in the state arrested after the revenge porn law came into effect. but in the end prosecutors convicted him using extortion laws avoiding any constitutional issues of free speech. >> i think what these people are doing is wrong but if it's protected by the first amendment i don't know. >> once the pictures are out there they're out there. >> unless a victim has enough to pay someone hundreds of dollars

an hour to go after this case, nobody is going to take this case. >> that's exactly what happened to chia rani. she couldn't afford a lawyer and maryland never pursued criminal charges. she's now part of a group offering revenge porn victims their digit. >> it is a wonderful wonderful tool and owonderful wonderful weapon and too many people have chosen to use it as a weapon. my ex, his exact words were, "i will destroy you." he was far from successful. >> proving it's possible to become part ever digital destruction and survive. >> adam may is here. >> since he entered this guilty plea earlier this week he now faces up to seven years in

prison. many observers doubt he will get this much time but. >> i can't imagine people so freely sending each other their sexual texts. >> more than half of people have done this now. when you look at the younger ages people under 24, that number goes up to around 70%. this is becoming part of our culture, what people refer to as a digital sexual revolution. >> there's an attempt to control these revenge porn sites but once these images get out there they can show up in a lot of places. >> they can show up in a lot of cases. yes. about half of the major revenge porn web masters have been arrested. their sites have bulletin shut down but there are still people that are out there that want to get these pictures out there. one thing we mentioned, some of them are moving their servers

overseas. social media sites twitter limited period of time. but there's a question of how do we control that once it gets out on social media. >> after all the internet is everywhere. is this a federal or state law? >> state law patch work acknowledge ants why many people would like to see the federal government pass some sort of a law that limits revenge porn. now, what we did see recently for the very first time earlier this year the feds took some action. they noticed a website operator who was collecting pictures off of craigslist, pretending to be a woman collecting collecting pornography and putting it up on a revenge porn website. the fc ordered that person to

destroy all images. >> what hasn't been addressed is the free speech part of this. >> adam, the person who is going out there and finding people who do this, he's a free speech advocate, where does that put us with respect to free speech? >> adam may thank you so much. >> upping the price of its workforce, walmart. and the next thing is a new face with an old money name. >> there are people who would say you're treading on your name. >> they're wrong. you can't buy your way into this. >> behind the scenes of fashion week later. hot on "america tonight's" website now. why americans are giving away land sacred to a native community, find out at

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wage. the america's biggest retailer, walmart, while the company took in $486 billion last year the workers aren't necessarily. "america tonight's" chris bury met a walmart worker who is struggling to live on her salary. >> reporter: the sun is just up when 60-year-old 60-year-old charmaine givens thomas, rides the bus. she has been working there for eight years. >> how much do you earn? >> i learn $11 an hour. >> that is more than the $8.25 minimum wage but for charmaine supporting her daughter and granddaughter, her salary ends up on the united states poverty line. $19,five 30 for,five 30 for a family

of -- >> 19,530. >> i worked 29 hours so with that it's far below a living wage. we have to make hard statisticians, what to pay, how much to pay here, how much to pay there just to keep things going. >> have you had gas turned off? >> oh yes. my gas is turned off now. >> why? >> because i couldn't afford to pay the bill. >> how do you cook without the gas? >> electric hot plate. >> electric hot plate? >> yes. i'msorry, i'm a little embarrassed about that. >> fast forward to walmart's role forward on the wage issue. full and part time workers will get an hourly pay the annual base rate will be $9 this year, next year it will jump to $10 an hour. next who's got the look?

the getty girl and a behind the scenes look at how it is to be her. >> like straight paris look. >> fashion's next big thing. next. tuesday on "america tonight," return to gaza. six months after fear strikes at the heart of a community, al jazeera's nick schifrin finds what's left. >> you can see behind me house after house and house totally destroyed and that is the edge of the alwafa hospital. >> return to gaza tuesday on "america tonight."

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>> it is cold, almost everywhere in the country right now. in the fashion forecast that might lead you to want to start

thinking about springtime. and lighter frothier looks. but in the fashion world fall and winter are the as soon as seasons starting that is, next fall and winter. fashion week, one of the most talked about designers challenged to make a name for himself. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> just three hours before they hit the runway, some of the world's most drop-dead gorgeous girls are at best, a wreck. >> i look like an alien. >> it's not anything an army of artists and stylists can't perfect. standing at the center of the backstage blur is a familiar name and at the same time a very new one in fashion. >> this is show. the up and comer of this fashion week is 20-year-old august getty.

the fashion press has already named him one to watch. and yes he is one of those gettys. >> my name is j. paul getty. >> his great grand father, j. paul was an oil wildcatter. only 21 when he started his business. he went on to become the world's richest man. three generations later the gettys are well-known for their collections. some of the most famous artwork anymore and one of the world's latterrest collection of stock images. but this is a different getty. he wasn't sure he wanted to use the name. >> i went through so many different names before i figured out i wanted to use august getty as my brand. i kept asking myself why should i be ashamed of this, you know what i mean?

>> there are people who would say, you're treading on your name. the only success you're having is because you're a getty. >> there are people that would say that. they're wrong. you can't buy your way into this. you really can't. no matter who you are where you're from, you need talent to be on that runway. you do. >> you also need financial backing . a single fashion week show can cost up wards of $250,000, just to stage. not to put too fine a point on it but august getty isn't into fashion for the money. he says design is in his blood. something he was driven to do since he was just a toddler. >> i've been doing this since i was three. designing. >> designing since you were three what do you mean? >> i would take forks and paper napkins tie them around, take

barbie dolls take shoe bags, tie them around everywhere i exop if i wasn't doing this right now i would be in my bedroom designing and sketching and finding a way to make clothes. i'd still be doing this. >> the only difference today he insists is that the fabrics are just a bit more lux. >> they're very beautiful. very beautiful. we have these velvets that are painted over, and laminated laces, fantastic, very cool. and to tie it all in we have heavy leather and light leather and faux fur and fur. >> we first met august getty days before his fashion week show as he chose his runway models. >> see that walk, how beautiful. >> from the 250 who pushed their way to the front of the line,

who traveled here from all across the country and all over the world for a shot at walking the runway at fashion week, only 32 will make the cut for august getty. >> well you twirl one more time for me? >> august says he's not looking for most beautiful girl in the crowd but one that can walk without opinion pony prancing. and just enough curves. >> i don't like the straight paris look. >> and leg. >> i think they're beautiful. >> to show off their designs. who isn't afraid to look him in the eye and who can embody his vision. >> who is the getty girl? >> she's strong, sexy confidence, very mysterious. very outwardly reserved. if that makes any sense. you know, letting the clothes do

the talking. >> the ordinary person has never seen this. has never seen what it is like back there. describe it. >> it's chaos! it's so frightening! i keep just running back and forth down the halls just pretending that i'm looking for people, just kind of for a second get away from it. >> on show night the original getty girl is at his side. he credits his sister natalia as being his muse. >> i credit my family, my mother my father my brother his muse. august, when he says says i'm his muse i'm proud for have him my brother. >> and his mother, ariadne with the family name.

>> i would wear that, that's amazing and everything he's ever designed the first slip of paper, each drawing. >> risk is everywhere in getty's collection, even pulling down the limitation of decency. not much is left to the manipulation. >> when your great grand -- left to the imagination. >> when your greatly grandfather vowed he was going to make a million dollars in his first two years in business people didn't quite believe him. do you have goals like that? >> he had a dream . and he sacrificed everything for that one chance. and i think i have heart and i have dreams, and i think that's why we're alike in that same way. >> it is as awg august getty insists every bit his own vision from

the near death experience makeup to the very tips of the model's fingers. >> you notice all over the place is your name. >> do i and that's why i try get away from it. it's very surreal and very strange to see what you -- what was your dream when you we're little kid. to see it all in front of you you almost feel not worthy of it. >> with a parade of celebrities and his most important supporters right in the front row, this is when it's all on the line. >> what goes through your head? >> i try to look around the room and take in the moment for what it is. but i feel like my body just kind of takes over after a while. i don't try hard to design. it comes very naturally. but i try very hard to make people feel something. and i always wonder if it's wasteful what i'm doing and if

it's not going to make a difference. but then it's the reaction, and then i get happy then. and then we watch the show. then we do it moments later. woo! >> he's got the look. that's "america tonight." tell us what you think at aljazeera.com/americatonight. come back, we'll have more of "america tonight," this weekend.

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