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GIRLS GONE WILD? How Do I Hate Joe Francis...Let Me Count the Ways..
Poor Joe...He's crying a river in a Reno cell right now threatening suicide...but Nevada and Florida want him bad. On top of his current mess, he has been sued again for the coercion of underage girls performing sexual acts and filming it without their consent. Little did the girls know they would actually be featured in the Spring Break GGW video! With his tax evasion charges, and alleged sexual acts against many females, he's looking at 40 years if convicted!
I HATE Joe Francis. If you don't know who Joe Francis is, he is the infamous creator of the cheesy low-budget videos, "Girls Gone Wild". He is only 34, yet is the epitome of a true misogynist and a pimp to boot. He makes money off inebriated women whom he encourages to flash their breasts, privates and perform sexual acts on camera.
One could argue that it is the woman's fault for their own actions, but the difference is that he and his employees PREY on girls during spring break and other areas where women are on vacation and are under the influence of intoxicants. In fact, some of them have been MINORS. He is a sick bastard and I hope he ROTS IN HELL when he meets his maker.
I am embarrassed and ashamed for his mother. What kind of parents would raise their son to believe it is morally acceptable to capitalize on this kind of "business"? It's wrong and it's disgusting.
At least strippers and porn stars get PAID. The only person who gets paid is JOE FRANCIS.
WHY DO I HATE JOE FRANCIS? HERE ARE JUST A FEW EXAMPLES:
In an August 6, 2006 issue of West (the Sunday magazine of the Los Angeles Times), an article by Claire Hoffman was written about Francis as she travelled with him across the country. In it, Hoffman bore witness to Francis' numerous alleged illegal activities, including habitual supply of alcohol to underage girls.
Hoffman reported Francis' alleged rape of an 18 year old virgin, Jannel Szyszka. Quoting Szyska, who was under the legal drinking age in the USA and had allegedly been supplied by alcohol by Francis and her entourage, Hoffman wrote, "Eventually, Szyszka says, Francis told the cameraman to leave and pushed her back on the bed, undid his jeans and climbed on top of her.
"I told him it hurt, and he kept doing it. And I keep telling him it hurts. I said, 'No' twice in the beginning, and during I started saying, 'Oh, my god, it hurts.' I kept telling him it hurt, but he kept going, and he said he was sorry but kissed me so I wouldn't keep talking." ... Then, she says, he opened the door and told the cameraman to come back, saying, "She's not a virgin anymore."...She says she's haunted by that night".
After the report was published, Francis denied that he engaged in sexual intercourse with Szyszka, while his lawyer claimed that intercourse had occurred consensually. Hoffman also reported that she herself was assaulted and "humiliated" physically by Francis in front of his cheering entourage, stating that "the pressure he applied was so intense that hours later, my arms were covered in red hand marks".
MORE REASONS TO HATE JOE FRANCIS:
Francis has been criticized by social commentators and third wave feminists such as Ariel Levy for perpetuating "the new double standard" which equates the objectification of women with sexual liberation.
Francis' rap sheet include allegations of rape, sexual assault and conspiracy to use minors in sexual performances. The recurring allegations include that women engaged in sexual activity were covertly filmed without their consent, and that Mantra films (his company) engaged in sexual exploitation of minors.
1. In an incident at Panama City Beach, Florida, during spring break 2003, Francis was arrested and initially charged with 71 separate counts which included racketeering, drug trafficking, and child pornography.
2. In March 2004, a Texas college student accused Francis of raping her in his Miami hotel room. She told police that after she met Francis in a bar in South Beach, Florida, where they argued over the morality of "Girls Gone Wild" videos, she went to his room at the Ritz-Carlton for a drink and awoke the next morning in bed next to him with no memory of the previous evening after Francis had offered her a drink. Again, Francis reported that he had consensual sex with the woman.
3. In 2000, the property manager of Francis' Santa Monica apartment, Stephanie Van de Motter, obtained a restraining order requiring that he stay at least 100 yards away from her. She said that Francis, upset about the noise garbage collectors made in the mornings, had harassed and threatened her twice by climbing up to her bedroom window and pounding violently on the glass while screaming obscenities at her. He also appeared in her office several times asking for her by using the "c-word" and left messages with her co-worker saying, "Tell the bitch this is war."
4. In 2003, Darian Mathias-Patterson, who scouted locations and arranged for the rental of a space for a Halloween party Francis threw, filed a police report that he threatened to kill her when she told him she couldn't return his $25,000 deposit because the 2,000 guests had trashed the place. She told police he said, "I'm going to fucking get you, you fucking whore" and repeatedly used the "c-word". Two weeks later, Mathias-Patterson, who was pregnant, miscarried. She later sued Francis and his company in Los Angeles County Superior Court for emotional distress, and the case was settled for an undisclosed amount.
5. In 2002, Becky Lynn Gritzke discovered that she had been covertly filmed flashing her breasts at a Mardi Gras festival and that the image had been used without her permission on billboards advertising Girls' Gone Wild videos and even on the cover of a GGW video.
ANY QUESTIONS NOW???
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at 09:22 on June 5th, 2007
Francis is an immoral person of the worst kind, preying on and exploiting others to make a fortune. Sick.
I'd like to get 5 minutes alone with him... better make that 10.
at 10:33 on June 5th, 2007
Michelle, excellent Piece. He is a slime ball who be tossed in prison -> Good stuff.
at 13:50 on June 7th, 2007
On the nuts-and-bolts side, I'd look for sources other than Wikipedia; whilst I love the idea of Wikis, this particular site has had too many credibility issues at the moment to be truly reliable as a news source: many articles are most likely okay, but the the site has juuuust enough of a stigma to make me not rely on it too heavily. Most of Francis' activities have been reported elsewhere, however, which is the price one pays for courting the public eye...
at 15:22 on June 7th, 2007
Yeah, I know Wiki isn't 100% reliable, but those claims about Joe Francis came from other sources too...so I know they are true. Thanks for the advice since I'm new! :)
at 07:28 on June 30th, 2008
Wow, blogs like this make me not want to surf the internet anymore. I mean, I personally choose to judge people based on my own direct experience with them.....BUT I guess there will always be self-righteous people, like yourself, who hate on those that they have never met.
The thing that annoys me is that ALL of your reasons for hating Francis are entirely based upon hearsay, one-sided accounts of occurrences, and legal "charges," NOT CONVICTIONS. If you're going to hate on him then at least have a logical reason for it.
The TRUE IRONY lies in the way you imply that women are just innocent prey of Francis; THAT IS FAR MORE INSULTING to women than anything Francis has done. You are implying that women are idiots and not capable of thinking for themselves. And then you remove all blame from the girls because you assume that they had some alcohol. Did Joe force them to drink? no. By your reasoning, people who are intoxicated should not be held accountable for their actions. That's brilliant. lol! PLUS, you need to consider that not all girls are uptight like you and Levy....some girls actually enjoy showing off their bodies....if you have ever seen a video....the girls are always smiling and having fun.....BUT i am guessing that a hater like you doesn't need to watch the videos to comment on them.
And so what, he called someone a "C-word?" Are you saying that you have never used bad language when someone has gotten you very upset? At least Francis probably had a reason to make such a comment; you are making hateful comments about Francis, and you have NEVER even met the guy. You are a terrible person that is far worse than Francis. Joe has built a million dollar empire from the ground up….and donated thousands of dollars to charities….what have you done?
Then you try to make an observation of your own and claim that at least strippers and hookers get paid, whereas only Joe gets money from his videos. Okay, make up your mind, are you trying to make a moral argument or an economic argument?
One last thing, I did find it hilarious that you ended your terrible piece of writing with "ANY QUESTIONS NOW???" As if you have really enlightened us on Joe Francis' character with your cut and paste style of quoting wikipedia and "other sources that you know are true". hahahaha..you are a joke.
at 08:59 on June 30th, 2008
I'm not going to even waste my time arguing with you about Joe Francis because both you and he are a waste of human space.
I don't think I need heresay to make my own opinions about this jackass. Maybe you two are related?
PS--What CHARITIES has Joe given to? That cracks me up. Piss off.
at 19:44 on August 10th, 2008
Nice Article. Joe Francis is a toolbox. I am not only offended by him, but the girls in the video as well. These types of videos prove that the intellectual state of America is circling the drain. I hate these videos. I am saddened to read that they have made so much money, which almost directly points to why our economy is slipping, our morality is floundering, and as a country, we seem to be a joke. I am no religious person, but I do know that this type of video appeals to the Lowest Common Denominator possible; White Trash and FRat Boys.
at 06:44 on August 11th, 2008
Thank you. Another person I found with some COMMON SENSE. :)
at 07:51 on August 22nd, 2008
Vankook....how do you KNOW who the video appeals to? do you have a log of all the people who have purchased the video? Must be cool to be so self-righteous....
LOL @ "our morality is floundering." YOU ARE A MORON. Joe's videos contributed to out recessive economy?....yeah okay retard
at 08:49 on November 14th, 2008
there is a special place in hell reserved for this asshole. Prison or no prison he will be cooking good when he dies. I'm not one to wish harm or death on anyone but this fuckstick will get his comeuppance trust me. Someone's dad is going to fuck this guy up something severe one day. This cocksucking piece of shit.
at 12:05 on December 9th, 2008
no one forces those girls to do anything. The CEO of a large company is much more evil IMO.
at 14:02 on February 3rd, 2009
I know a girl that I've been friends with for years that was raped by Joe Francis after gotten drunk by he and his 'entourage', really a bunch of party boy idiots who go out in 'teams' rounding up young girls so that Joe can make money and get his rocks off. This friend was the younger sister of a good friend of mine and gave a point by point account on how she was coerced into going back to one of his GGW buses and was raped in a very similar situation to the LA times article. Frankly, I hope the guy is castrated. I have a feeling we'll be reading about him being 'offed' by an angry father or boyfriend at some point...and he'll have deserved it. They'll find him in a ditch somewhere with a baseball bat shoved up his *ss and his own d*ck in his mouth.