Dillon Jordan, 50, a Hollywood movie producer who was behind Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Kindergarten Teacher was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday after he admitted operating a prostitution service for well-known producers for seven years.
The California movie producer provided women to wealthy clients for up to $15,000 and organized sex parties in the U.S. and abroad.
Prosecutors said Jordan operated the business from 2010 to 2017 through a purported party and event planning company and his actual movie production company.
During sentencing, Manhattan US District Judge John P. Cronan told Jordan, of Lake Arrowhead, California, that he would have imposed a harsher sentence if he was allowed due to the permanent physical and emotional scars the women sustained.
One victim who testified in court said that she had suffered brain damage after being forced by Jordan to take drugs and prostitute her body.
Jordan pleaded guilty to a conspiracy count and five years was the maximum sentence available.
In another count, Jordan is also prosecuted for parlaying his prostitution business to produce legitimate movies, since several investors and well-known producers were also clients of his prostitution ring.
At least one client invested $250,000 in Jordan’s movie projects, according to KTVU.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a release that Jordan had ‘operated and profited from an extensive prostitution business that catered to wealthy men and was predicated on the exploitation of young women.’
At sentencing, Jordan apologized to the victims.
A victim who spoke during the two-hour hearing said she nearly died a decade ago when Jordan invited her to a party and then fed her a mix of drugs that left her permanently brain-damaged.
‘I never wanted to prostitute my body,’ she said, pausing to collect herself before urging the maximum sentence.
Jordan is listed as a producer on films including the 2018 film The Kindergarten Teacher which featured two-time Oscar nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal, and the 2019 movie The Kid, which starred Ethan Hawke and Chris Pratt.
