{"id":1099,"date":"2006-08-06T09:09:36","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T16:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2006-08-06T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T16:09:36","slug":"profile-of-girls-gone-wild-founder-joe-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/06\/profile-of-girls-gone-wild-founder-joe-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile of Girls Gone Wild Founder, Joe Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Go read this article about asshole extraordinaire and scum of the earth Joe Francis, the founder of the “Girls Gone Wild”<\/a> empire. Bravo to Claire Hoffman of the L.A. Times for doing such a fantastic piece of journalism.<\/p>\n

L.A. Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Eventually, Szyszka [an 18-year-old girl recruited at a Chicago night club for a GGW video] 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.”<\/p>\n

Afterward, she says, Francis cleaned them both off with a paper towel and told her to get dressed. Then, she says, he opened the door and told the cameraman to come back, saying, “She’s not a virgin anymore.”<\/p>\n

Szyszka says Francis told her that what happened had to stay between them. She says she agreed, and they walked to the front of the bus. Szyszka remembers that one of the crew returned her driver’s license. Another asked if she wanted to hang out on the bus. She declined, she says, but asked for three pairs of “booty short” underwear that Francis had promised her for appearing on camera. “They gave me a weird look like that was too much,” Szyszka recalls. “They were, like, ‘Three of them?’ and I was, like, ‘Yeah, three.'”<\/p>\n

Within days, Szyszka says, she told her father, who was angry about what she said had happened but kept quiet at her request. A month after the incident, she says, she told her sister and mother.<\/p>\n

She’s confused, she admits, about what happened. She feels guilty, she says, for getting herself into the situation in the first place. She says she never would have undressed for the cameras if she hadn’t been completely drunk. And she is adamant that she said “no” to Francis. She says she’s haunted by that night.<\/p>\n

“I feel like it was planned,” she says. “Sometimes I’m driving along, and I think about it and all of a sudden feel weird.”<\/p>\n

Six weeks after that night outside Chicago, when I call Francis on his cellphone and ask him about the incident, he says he doesn’t remember Szyszka and that he didn’t have sex with anyone that night. He seems to lose control, repeatedly referring to me by a crude word for female genitalia. “If you print that, I will [expletive] sue the [expletive] out of you. If you print that, baby, you just put the nail in your own coffin,” he tells me. “You are a [expletive expletive]. You decided to blast me . . . You are a [expletive] bitch . . . I will get my last laugh on you. I will get you.” He then refers me to Burke, his lawyer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Go read this article about asshole extraordinaire and scum of the earth Joe Francis, the founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” empire. Bravo to Claire Hoffman of the L.A. Times for doing such a fantastic piece of journalism. L.A. Times: Eventually, Szyszka [an 18-year-old girl recruited at a Chicago night club for a GGW video] 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103,170,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-journalism","category-sex","category-wtf","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-hJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}