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Girls Gone Wild & Underage Girls
Busted!!!
THE owner of the "Girls Gone Wild" video empire was arrested Thursday on racketeering charges after Florida cops learned that several underage girls were filmed topless and bathing together at a motel. Investigators allege that Joseph Francis, 30, and his cohorts taped the girls last week during spring break festivities in Panama City, reports Court TV's The Smoking Gun. The "Girls Gone Wild" team allegedly brought two young women to a motel where they were each paid $100 to undress, shower together and masturbate in a bathtub. Cops say Francis offered two of the girls $50 "to touch or play" with his sex organ and that he and the show's photographer knew the girls were underage. Cops also busted three Francis associates and executed search warrants on Francis' condominium and his corporate Lear jet. The raids yielded cocaine and evidence of personal use of Ecstasy and pot. Cops reported they found explicit video of the underage girls who had told cops of the incident. A spokesman for Francis said, "we deny all the charges."
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