One of the Greatest Miscarriages of Justice Ever!
He attended lavish parties, dated Paris Hilton and counted Brad Pitt and Justin Timberlake as fans of his Girls Gone Wild franchise. But times have changed for Joe Francis — the 34-year-old, self-made multimillionaire. Since May, he’s been cooped up in a 12×7 cell at Reno’s Washoe County Jail for tax evasion charges.
“I can’t look out the window,” he tells Extra in an interview, airing Monday. “The only thing I can see is the 7-11 across the street, that’s too depressing for me. I try not the think about anything on the outside.” Francis could pay his $1.5 million bond as he awaits a federal trial slated for next year.
But then he would face extradition to Florida, where he was jailed for a month in April for contempt of court in a civil suit brought by seven women who alleged they were underage when he shot them for his raunchy videos. (The federal charges had superceded the civil ones.) A judge refuses to grant him bail.
“I’m being persecuted by people in Florida, corrupt city officials, who’re pissed off at me for asserting my First Amendment right against them,” he told Extra. Francis compared himself to Hustler’s Larry Flynt, adding, “I’m obviously the target because I’m the figurehead of the company … I’m being persecuted for my stance on the First Amendment.”
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Anonymous says:
Ha, Ha! What goes around comes around!
little darling says:
He’s scum!
Darren says:
Why is he scum? He is an entrepreneur who exploited stupid drunk whores who would sacrifice their humity for a t-shirt.
I don’t care for this type of entertainment but it is his right, isn’t it? George W. Bush has taken so many liberties with our freedom that we are now prosecuting something like this???
Now, if he took pictures of underage girls then he should be prosecuted. But so should the girls, who were probably drunk at the time and were certainly underage.