Joe Francis is a sleazeball...
I wonder how much he had to pay to settle with the last group of underage teens that his company shot in Florida?
And I read that he now has four more underage girls that have filed suit against him and Mantra, including girls that alledge that Joe himself was involved in sexual acts with them (not just some contractors, as in the last case).
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There's a new lawsuit against Joe Francis, and his various Girls Gone Wild companies, for his activities during Spring Break at Panama City Beach. The four alleged victims say they want some of Francis' money, but they also want the government to shut-down his companies.
They alleged the illegal activity took place during Girls Gone Wild taping during Spring Break in 2000, 2002 and 2003. The new claims Francis and his crews videotaped underage girls either exposing themselves, or committing sex acts.
The part of the complaint from 2000 accuses Francis' camera crews of videotaping 4-underage local girls exposing their breasts. Two of the girls involved were 13-years old at the time.
The 2002 incident involved a 17-year-old Mississippi high school student, who was here on Spring Break with a group of friends. She claims Francis' crews gave her alcohol, spiked with some kind of drugs. She claims she was induced to perform sex acts with another female while a camera person taped the acts.
The 2003 incident involves a Panama City Beach teen who was 16-years old at the time. She claims Francis' crews took her and a group of her friends to the Chateau Motel and offered them money to perform for the cameras. She claims francis walked into the room as 2-other underage girls were performing sex acts on each other in a shower.
She says Francis took her and another girl to an adjoining room, where he paid each of them 50-dollars and forced them to perform a sex act on him.
Francis was convicted of 2-counts of prostitution last week for this incident. The shower acts taking place next door involved the 2-girls who sued Francis, a lawsuit he settled last spring.
In each of the new cases, the girls claim Francis or Girls Gone Wild representatives were aware they were underage. The lawsuit accuses Francis and his companies of racketeering, exploitation and victimizing underage women.
The girls claim they've lost jobs and educational opportunities because of their incidents with Girls Gone Wild. Their lawyers are asking for damages to compensate the girls for physical, mental and financial harm, as well as legal costs.
But they are also asking the government to shut-down Francis' companies, prohibiting them from engaging or investing in any future activities involving the commercial exploitation of female images for commercial financial gain, including the Girls Gone Wild series.
In other words, they want the government to put Joe Francis out of business.
The 4-alleged victims are being represented by some of the same lawyers who represented 2-girls Francis settled with last year.
The federal case is assigned to Judge Richard Smoak of Panama City. That's the same Federal Judge who jailed Francis for contempt of court last year. The contempt stemmed from Francis' behavior during settlement negotiations in the lawsuit filed by those two girls from the shower scene. Francis eventually settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed sum of money.
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I hope you get your money Machete, but you should seriously consider investing your time working with a better program than the one that Joe Francis operates.
ADG