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'Girls Gone Wild' Founder Ordered to Jail, Again
Wednesday, April 04, 2007

PANAMA CITY, Fla. —

Just days after narrowly avoiding jail time, the multimillionaire founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" videos was again ordered to jail Wednesday for contempt of court.

Joe Francis, 34, has until noon Thursday to turn himself in to authorities, The News Herald of Panama City reported. A federal judge ordered Francis jailed on Wednesday after lawyers suing him complained that unbeknownst to them he had substantially changed the conditions of an offer they'd agreed to.

U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak found Francis in contempt of court last week after lawyers for seven women complained he shouted obscenities and threatened them during civil suit settlement negotiations. The women were filmed on Panama City Beach during spring break in 2003 for a Francis video. His videos generally show young women baring their breasts and acting out other sexual situations.

Smoak had ordered Francis arrested Saturday if he did not reach a settlement in the case but suspended the order after learning that Francis had made an offer the plaintiffs later agreed to.

Plaintiffs' attorney D. Ross McCloy told the judge during an emergency hearing Wednesday that he thought the case was resolved but later learned Francis had altered the conditions of the offer, making it unacceptable to his clients.

A mediator said the new offer included a payment plan that wouldn't be completed for many years.

"He may have snookered us and gotten out Saturday," Smoak said, "but he's coming back."

Francis' lawyer, Mike Dickey, told the judge he was "stumped" by the development.

The judge reinstated the civil contempt order, which means Francis will be in jail until a formal mediation session can be set up and he participates in a meaningful way.

Smoak said he would look into possibly starting a criminal contempt process. He also increased the amount of money Francis would have to pay to the plaintiffs' lawyers, The News Herald reported. It was not clear what the new sum was.

A telephone message left after hours at Dickey's office by The Associated Press was not immediately returned Wednesday night.

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s13gold

those girls are drunk, if you didnt know what you were getting into, you wouldnt have done what you have done.

the girls are just trying to justify their claim, they're embarrassed thats why and trying to make someone pay for their mistakes.

azndoc

all women love being in the center of attention. Their attention whores at heart. You throw in some booze and blam clothes start coming off. Then the next morning their like what.... I did that nooooo........ Some of the videos are lame though. They show all the nice titties hot girls in the commercials and the ugly ones in the videos.

John_R

My good old home town. *laughs* You still see plenty of titties on the strip... Maybe that's why my girl won't let me go there much. LOL

GSXRJJordan

hahahaha Jack admitted to buying GGW vids! But that's cool, he prob watches em for the ugly ones anyway =P

This dude seems like a douche... I agree that he's making money off these chicks, but cmon they see the cameras and go wild. He's being generous by giving them any reasonable amount of money at all.

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Cash

I never got those videos.. It's like tease porn. Why not buy the real thing?

theicecreamdan

They usually have some pretty good girl on girl action in between.

What do the girls have to be embarrassed about? So they showed their boobies when they were out having a good time. I guess a large portion of society thinks that they have to be labeled as "sluts" or "whores" now? I don't see it that way. Now when they get embarrassed about something THEY did somebody else has to be sued?

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180sExy

+1 on that!!!!!

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azndoc

There's special edition ones ln gold disc or something that is full on XXX porn.

Damn it I admitted again that I watch GGW huh.