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"Girls Gone Wild" mogul's own sex tape up for grabs

Posted by Lindsay Beyerstein at 12:54 PM on January 29, 2007.


He & Paris Hilton have "pit-bull legal team."
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The malevolent founder of the Girls Gone Wild empire, Joe Francis is about to discover that turnabout is fair play. You see, Francis' former girlfriend Paris Hilton forgot to pay her long-term storage bill, so the creditor she tried to stiff is auctioning off the contents of her locker including a steamy home movie performance co-starring Joe Francis. Payback sure is sweet.

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My first question was: does he care? I mean, if his business is getting women to expose themselves, won't his reaction just be: well, that's how it goes...

Turns out, he does care. A lot:

The celebutard and "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis have amassed a pit-bull legal team to attack the creators of parisexposed. com - a pay-to-view Web site boasting Hilton's most cringe-worthy memorabilia, including porn videos made during their months-long courtship.

"We're pissed and I feel for Paris right now. She's been victimized yet again," Francis told The Post yesterday. "We want this thing down and we're seeking monetary damages."

Francis said that videos of him with a topless Hilton were only intended for their eyes, and that the sex-crazed heiress is "devastated" that they've been made available to the public.

"They were taken for us only when we were dating," Francis said. "These guys have absolutely no right to use the images - they flat-out put them on the Web with no permission. He messed with the wrong person."

Not only that, but the GGW enterprise has met with resistance in Indiana. A local group urged a club to cancel an event by threatening to videotape it for screening at their next liquor board review.

Details on how to do that for the next dozen GGW events are HERE.

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Lindsay Beyerstein a New York writer blogging at Majikthise.


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Turn about is fair play
Posted by: albrechtkrausse on Jan 29, 2007 1:56 PM   
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the tape should be released. Somehow, however, I doubt the interest in this tape will be for that guy. The market in this stuff is clearly predominantly male and more likely the Paris Hilton aspect will be the big seller.
A year or so ago, this guy was kidnapped (or held captive) in his palacial estate in LA. Apparently by a disgruntled person upset at his exploitative movies, maybe a relative of someone filmed surriptiously. It was alleged that he was forced to 'perform' in some fashion and the kidnapper filmed it for revenge. I think he was found in a trunk of a car or tied up or something after the events. The story made the press for awhile and then was buried. The tape never surfaced but it was funny to see him get burned.

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Paris' thing
Posted by: gellero on Jan 29, 2007 3:43 PM   
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Lovely Paris is not a PornStar, so watching is about as boring as watching second rate amateur porn. Have your friends check out your own home movies sometime and ask how they'd rate it. Probably thumbs down. Porn actresses are 'actresses' and know what it takes. That's why they are 'stars'.
As for 'protesting' the GGW's gigs........the opressor class is always anti what people choose to do on their own volition. POWER to the PEOPLE !!

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Ewww
Posted by: doinaheckuvajob on Jan 29, 2007 6:13 PM   
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Paris Hilton? The most unattractive woman of all time and perhaps the most unsensual?

Ok, everybody needs love. And everybody has karma and irony. Go figure.

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So this piece goes from making fun of them..
Posted by: Techubus on Jan 29, 2007 7:13 PM   
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.. to encouraging readers to help shut down GGW by threatening clubs that dare host them with a liquor board review (basically a threat to revoke that facilities license)??

I'm sorry, that's the kind of shit I expect from a bunch of conservative christian prudes.

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THE TRAMP & THE SCUMBAG
Posted by: charlieparisek on Jan 29, 2007 10:57 PM   
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Watching a bony tramp screw a fat, sloppy butt head?

Click....zzzzzz.

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joe francis kidnapped
Posted by: insulaparadigm on Jan 29, 2007 11:43 PM   
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Darnell Riley!!!! how did I miss that story?

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Karma
Posted by: Hilizimcduff on Jan 30, 2007 7:06 AM   
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Poor Joe. Do you feel exploited? Do you feel dirty? Do you wish you could take it back? Are you worried that your friends, family, and even complete strangers (not to mention potential perverts) are going to see you up close and personal? Do you regret this decision you made in a split second to get crazy... or "go wild"? I hope so.
Just remember you're paying those lawyers with money you made from inflicting the same pain and embarrassment.
Now say it with me, "This is my first time..."

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Joe Francis is scum
Posted by: helenwheels on Jan 30, 2007 9:42 AM   
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He hangs out with scum and creates scum for a living. This misogynistic asshole deserves EVERY bad thing that he brings on himself with the negativity he's putting out to the world. Is anything (besides pedophilia) any more distasteful than getting teenage girls drunk and exploiting them? Ugh. I really hope that story about him being kidnapped is true. But apparently he didn't learn squat from it. I hope this tape gets out and embarasses the living hell out of him. And what's with his hair in that pic? He looks like Zippy the Pinhead.

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Whores, sluts, and pimps
Posted by: xbj on Jan 30, 2007 9:43 AM   
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"Fame" in Bushamerika.

Says all that needs to be said.

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My favorite parody
Posted by: chaoslegs on Jan 30, 2007 11:26 AM   
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was Arrested Development (TV Show) with their video series called "Girls with low self-esteem."

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» RE: My favorite parody Posted by: PopRox80
How exactly is this story newsworthy?
Posted by: lessbread on Jan 30, 2007 12:22 PM   
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Ok, so the scumbag it getting his come-uppins. Great. Now what else about this yahoo, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan et al. merit attention on a website aiming to inspire citizen action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, and health care issues.? Leave the tabloid trash for the tabloids, please.

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