GGW Part 2: Snoopdog being sued

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Associated Press

Rap artist-actor Snoop Dogg is being sued by two Louisiana women who say they were offered drugs during Mardi Gras 2002 to flash their breasts for pictures that later appeared on a cover of the video series "Girls Gone Wild."

The suit by Jaime Capdeboscq, who was 17 at the time of the alleged incident, and Whitni Candiotto, who was 18, also names Joseph R. Francis, the owner of Mantra Films Inc., which has produced the series of mail-order videos that feature nudity and sexual activity.

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On April 2, Francis was arrested during spring break at Panama City, Fla., where videos were being filmed. He faces 22 charges including racketeering, procuring minors for sexual acts, filming minors engaged in sexual peformances and conspiracy. Mantra Films has disputed the charges, contending crews always ask young women their age and film only those who say they are 18 or older.

In the unrelated Louisiana suit, Capdeboscq and Candiotto claim that Francis broke a promise that the picture would not be used in connection with a video. However, when the video ? known as "Girls Gone Wild Doggy Style" ? came out, the women found their pictures on the cover, the suit alleges.

Attorneys for Francis and Snoop Dogg ? whose real name is Calvin Broadus and who was host of the video ? have both denied the allegations in court filings, saying that any pictures taken were with voluntary consent. They also say a sign was posted in the video shooting area that said: "By entering, you consent to the use of such film and your image in a commercial film product."

The women are asking for unspecified amount of money in the suit, originally filed in February in state court in Tangipahoa Parish where the two women lived, but later transferred to federal court in New Orleans.

The pictures were taken during a party for Snoop Dogg at a New Orleans hotel, said plaintiff attorney Ron Macaluso.

Macaluso said his clients were offered, but did not accept, drugs.


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[smack]

you can't sue snoop dogg. that's like sacriligious or something.

[ytcracker]

if suge was still down hed pop them

[FuqALot]

doggy dogg world.

[OneHungLo]

Was Joseph Francis convicted on all those charges? Did that go to court yet?

[fiveyes]

Originally posted by OneHungLo
Was Joseph Francis convicted on all those charges? Did that go to court yet?

No, not yet. There's like a total of nearly thirty charges, including florida racketeering charges, the group face, as well as a federal RICO investigation. So it'll probably take over a year for it to wend its way through the court system. He did get his jet, which was seized during the initial raids, back from the pound when the officials found it that it was just leased, after all.

Oh, and as this link points out, one of the girls suing was 17 at the time of the incident here in New Orleans. Not too surprising, all things considered...

[KRL]

Originally posted by OneHungLo
Was Joseph Francis convicted on all those charges? Did that go to court yet?

He's got a long legal road ahead of him.

[ytcracker]

i fail to understand why someone sitting on that kind of branding and name empire would risk everything over a couple of years on a girl

plenty of fish in the sea id rather hug my fucking money than my prison toilet

[bringer]

Originally posted by ytcracker
if suge was still down hed pop them

[Gutterboy]

money grubbing whores

[fiveyes]

Originally posted by ytcracker
i fail to understand why someone sitting on that kind of branding and name empire would risk everything over a couple of years on a girl

plenty of fish in the sea id rather hug my fucking money than my prison toilet

It really was a matter of him being too full of himself. He came from money, a spoiled brat of a rich kid. Probably bought everything he ever wanted including his way out jams along the way.

The bit in Panama City was over the top though, right on the level of flippin' off the police after they'd told him to behave. See, right before spring break this year... well, here's a copy of the initial AP release, pay attention to the last four paragraphs to see how stupid that whole deal was:

I found this on rec.arts.movies.erotica at the time of the bust (can't find the archive link to it on Google or I'd post that instead):

The Associated Press
The head of a company that produces the "Girls Gone Wild" videos was
arrested on racketeering and drug charges after parents complained to
police he told underage girls to say on camera that they were 18,
police said Thursday.

Search warrants on five locations and a private Gulfstream jet turned
up videotapes to corroborate the stories of five girls who said they
stripped and acted out scenes on camera although producers knew they
were underage, police said.

Joe Francis, chief executive officer of Mantra Entertainment, was
arrested outside of his condominium Wednesday evening. Three other
employees were also arrested.

Francis, 30, and Mark Schmitz, 26, were charged with prostitution and
sexual exploitation. Francis was also charged with drug trafficking.
The other two employees were charged with drug possession.

Mantra Entertainment spokesman Bill Horn said they deny all charges.

Police said they seized a 2002 Ferrari, electronic equipment, waiver
documents and a safe containing original footage of young women baring
forbidden flesh.

Panama City Beach is the nation's leading spring break destination,
attracting up to 400,000 college and high school students in March and
April.

Four 17-year-old girls and a 16-year-old came across a "Girls Gone
Wild" van Monday evening and were asked to go to a motel room with a
video crew to act out nude scenes in front of the camera, police said.
Two of them did, and were paid $100 for their performances, police
said.

"One of the 17-year-old girls came clean to her mother, and they
called us," said Bay County sheriff's spokeswoman Ruth Sasser.

Police said they found video to confirm that Francis told the
16-year-old to say she was 18 when he filmed her baring her breasts on
video.

All four men were still in custody Thursday evening in the Bay County
Jail in Panama City, officials said.

Area officials started feuding with the video company earlier this
year when a "Girls Gone Wild" crew came to town during spring break.

Mayor Lee Sullivan and local law enforcement officials threatened to
arrest anyone violating a public nudity ordinance as well as those who
encouraged such lawbreaking.

The producers went to court, asking a federal judge to declare that
certain activity associated with the filming would not be
automatically illegal and seeking a temporary restraining order
preventing authorities from making or threatening arrests.

They dropped the restraining order request March 12 after getting a
written promise police would not interfere with their constitutional
rights.

[Digipimp]

Snoop got greedy and got in with the wrong crew and he's catching their shit too, that's the way it always works.

[eiht_98]

biiiaaaatch

[j3ff]

lawsuit on the doggfather?
whores want to make themselves famous