I think this really is the situation. This guy is a con artist who more often than not played the long game to get some of these girls naked in bed with him. Just listen to some of the things he says in some of the videos, and the fact that it was alluded to that some of these girls were working with him a few times before even taking their clothes off. His whole thing was he was getting off on manipulating and conning them into getting his dick in them. Sure, there were some prostitutes, and a decent number girls that were willing, but I would bet money that upwards of 80% of the girls that showed up were not showing up with knowledge he intended to shoot porn (whether they agreed or not when they found out), and there's definitely a whole lot of coercion and power dynamic manipulations going on here.
These girls are in a room with this fat fuck who is holding money and paperwork over their heads to do what he wants, with vague implications of not being able to get future work, not getting paid, or even legally being on the hook for past payments when he's not getting what he wants. He even lies to a good number of them, stating that it's all going to be simulated, that he just needs "to show the contrast of their skin on his skin" (which is a fucking creepy and weird thing to say). Then all of a sudden they're having real sex and the girls are angry when it's over. It's apparent in quite a few of the videos, especially ones where the girl didn't work with him again, such as "Brianna Eckle" and "Cathy". Just try and listen to the dialogue between them. Hell, imagine what we're not hearing when he deliberately mutes the audio or stretches something out into that shitty slo-mo that he does so frequently. There's gotta be some incredibly incriminating stuff in those sections.
And if you think he's somehow not a con artist, then why would the videos need to be broken up into 3-10 videos per girl, with so much repeated footage and time wasted with photo slide shows in random spots. Then each is priced individually, at full price? It's to sell you the same product over and over.
This guy absolutely shut down all his shit because someone finally went to a lawyer and/or the police, and he's potentially in some real trouble.