Joe Francis Offered Court-Ordered Opportunity To Go Wild In Florida Jail Cell
The slippery film covering sleaze mogul Joe Francis, the mastermind behind the Girls Gone Wild co-ed tittie-flashing empire, may not be enough for him to slide out of the clutches of the law's long arm. Francis earned a judge's wrath by skipping out on Panama City for a NCAA Final Four game in Atlanta, when he was supposed to be negotiating a settlement in a 2003 lawsuit brought against him by seven minors captured in "sexual situations." Now he's been ordered to do hard time on contempt of court charges:
U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak ordered "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis to turn himself over to federal authorities in Panama City by noon today to begin serving jail time for contempt of court.
"He may have snookered us and gotten out Saturday," Smoak said, "but he's coming back."
Like his longtime sceneslutting confidante Paris Hilton, the girlsploitation magnate suddenly finds himself facing the very real possibility of jail time. There he'll sit, deprived of the 24-hour party lifestyle to which he's become accustomed, in an environment virtually devoid of busty females to offer all the T-shirts and Jäeger Bombs they can handle in exchange for the digital capture of their lost innocence. Still, Francis's pragmatism and astute business sense should never be underestimated, and if he somehow turns his sentence into yet another DVD best seller, say—Panama City Hooker Holding Tank Gone Nuts!—we wouldn't be the least bit surprised.
