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Girls gone wild beach3/10/2024 Francis had “impugned the integrity of the judicial process.” Costello of Bay County Circuit Court, who said Mr. Before he could get out, guards found sleeping pills, prescription medication for anxiety and high cholesterol and $700 in cash in his cell, and he soon faced criminal charges for introducing contraband into a detention facility.īecause of the new charges, his bail on the 2003 criminal case was revoked, and bail in the contraband case was denied by Judge Dedee S. Francis settled the lawsuit while in jail in Bay County, Fla., but his troubles were not over. Francis, by then back home in Los Angeles, showed up to do his time four days late, which earned him another contempt order, this time for criminal contempt. Francis in civil contempt for not properly participating in mediation and ordered him into custody. of the Northern District of Florida held Mr. Francis in jail in April when the women’s lawyers complained he was verbally abusive in negotiations. Francis to return to Florida to mediate the suit. While he was out on bail in the criminal case, which is pending, the judge overseeing the suit ordered Mr. Francis was also saddled with a civil suit for emotional distress from the two girls, each 17, in the shower scene, along with five women. Terry Barner/The News Herald, via Associated Pressīut Mr. Some conservatives are among the most vocal supporters of Mr. PERP WALK Joe Francis leaving the courthouse in Panama City, Fla., in April. “Girls Gone Wild” camera crews, who usually film college women at bars, parking lots, hotel rooms and other party hangouts, had been to Panama Beach City before, but in 2003 they arrived with unusual hoopla. Francis’s troubles started nearly five years ago when he included Panama City Beach, a Panhandle city of white-sand beaches on the Gulf of Mexico, in a highly publicized pay-per-view event from three Spring Break locations. Sullivan unsuccessfully ran for state representative, his campaign listed as his proudest mayoral achievement “taking ‘Girls Gone Wild,’ their slick California lawyers and their exploitation of young women to court and making certain their pornography would never be made on the Emerald Coast again.” Francis, maintains he has only his “arrogance and bad judgment” to blame for his travails. The prosecutor, State Attorney Steve Meadows, has sat down for interviews on “Nightline” and VH-1 and issued news releases vowing to “pursue the prosecution against Joe Francis at every stage and in every court.”Īnd the former mayor of Panama City Beach, Lee Sullivan, one of the first Florida officials to lock horns with Mr. Courtesy of the Washoe County jailīut Florida officials have been doing some p.r. VIDEOGRAPHER Joe Francis, in jail, says he is not guilty. His most vocal allies are not the Hollywood A-listers who have vacationed at his Mexico estate, but conservative radio hosts and their listeners, who suspect government shenanigans. For the last two and a half months, he has taken out ads, sent out news releases, appeared on dozens of radio and TV talk shows and used a Web site, to relate his convoluted story while his lawyers file motions charging prosecutorial misconduct and ask for investigations.Īnd as he goes about trying to transform his image from soft-porn entrepreneur to victim of vindictive officials, support has come from unusual quarters. Francis is now desperately trying to drum up public sympathy, if not win release, to expose how unfairly he believes authorities have treated him. He has not been scoring brownie points by calling local officials in Florida where Spring Break 2003 in Panama City Beach went terribly wrong for him “Nazis” and “cockroaches.”īut, stuck in jail in Reno, Mr. Joe Francis, 34, has long been a polarizing figure, having made his riches enticing young women at Spring Break locations (many of them drunk) to bare their breasts for the cameras for his popular videos. He talks to a visitor through glass, often yelling, sometimes tapping on the glass with his index finger for emphasis, railing into a handset against “evil” and “vengeful” government officials and vowing to sue them all. THE multimillionaire creator of “Girls Gone Wild” sits in a jail visiting room here, wearing a uniform of orange shirt and gray pants and looking pale but rested from eight months of incarceration.
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