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In 2003, he was arrested on child pornography charges for allegedly filming two underage girls having sex in a shower. The Post noted Francis’ history of giving off big predator energy. Some famous guys who’s friends with the Kardashians comes along with a camera, asks them to sign something, they’re drunk and don’t know what they’re doing, and bam (their sex tape) is out there for the next 20 years.” “It literally turns my stomach,” Newman said. One of the women can be heard asking, “My parents aren’t going to see this, are they?” In the footage, she said an off-camera man can be heard coaching three women in performing oral sex on each other while making sex sounds for the audience.

Nobody could believe that somebody who rubs shoulders with the Kardashians, Brad Pitt, and Jennifer Aniston could be a violent abuser and a criminal.”īlackford Newman talked about footage from the documentary where someone who worked for Francis talked visibly drunk and barely legal women into having sex on camera. “Young women like Jannel thought Joe Francis was OK because he hung out with celebrities.

“Behind the fun, the wet T-shirt competitions and the faux-feministic liberation centered around flashing your breasts in front of a camera, lives were being ruined,” Newman said. Newman explained to the Post that Jannel isn’t the only woman who has horror stories to tell about their Girls Gone Wild experiences. And then he got off of me like I was garbage.” I didn’t give my consent that night, and he totally raped me. “He basically forced himself on me, and it hurt because I wasn’t ‘turned on,’ so it really hurt…He took hold of me. “He kept trying to kiss me and saying, ‘It’s going to be OK, it’s going to be OK.’ And I was like, ‘Get off of me, get off of me,’” Jannel said on the docuseries episode. Instead, she said, she was forced to “touch” herself with objects that he’d stored on the sleeper bus in a bedside dresser drawer. She claims that Francis cherrypicked her from the crowded dance floor, fed her alcohol “like it was water,” incessantly complimented her looks, and then invited her onto the bus - where she assumed that the worst she’d be asked to do was flash her breasts at a “Girls Gone Wild” camera. That’s when Jannel claims that “Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis brutally raped her in the back of his logo-wrapped tour bus, which was parked near Chicago’s Club Envy, where they’d partied earlier in the evening. The early 2000s were a crazy time for self-crowned “party girl” Jannel.īut the thumping club anthems hit a shrieking record scratch around 2:30 a.m.

GIRLS GONE WILD SERIES

But in the first episode of TNT’s new true-crime anthology series Rich & Shameless, director Katinka Blackford Newman exposed a darker side of the series, one where young women were duped into situations that amounted to sexual abuse and violence, most of which were allegedly committed by Girls Gon Wild creator Joe Francis. Petrocelli said the girls identified in the charges all told the video producers they were older than 18, some said it while being videotaped, and one or more had signed a waiver declaring themselves older than 18.You might remember those Girls Gone Wild commercials that purported the series to be an innocent filming of spring break shenanigans that just so happened to include college girls getting naked and, well, going wild. The charges list several girls by their initials only, all younger than 18, who investigators said were filmed on March 31 engaging in sexual activity. Racketeering is when someone intentionally sets up an illegal moneymaking operation and uses the funds to support a business. 'What they did was take one incident and try to cobble it together to support a (racketeering) claim and it's transparent,' he said. Some of his employees have also been charged.įrancis' attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, said from his office in California that the state's case is weak. He was arrested April 3 on prostitution, sexual exploitation and drug trafficking charges. Francis and his staff were in Panama City Beach in February, March and April to tape a spring break special. Mantra Films produces the Girls Gone Wild videos. Many of the charges name Mantra Films Inc.

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