If you can depend on Joe Francis to stand up for one thing, it’s justice. The founder of the always dependable “Girls Gone Wild” empire, is now demanding that a court rescind the settlement agreement he entered into last year with the families of four underage girls whom he filmed performing sex acts back in 2003. In his suit, Francis claims he “settled only because a federal judge bullied him into it by jailing him for contempt of court when settlement talks weren’t going well.”
Francis, who brings home an estimated $29 million a year from his soft-core porn empire, has reached out to supporters on his website to write letters to Congress on his behalf and seek the judge’s impeachment. Why? “This fight is way bigger than me,” he explained. “If this stands, this single-handedly undermines the entire civil judicial process in this country,” he continued, noting that his “actions are intended to protect average citizens.”
Well, of course they are. This is Joe Francis we’re talking about. The guy who brought us Bubba Sparxxx’ XXX Tour and Sex Starved College Girls. If we can’t count on him to look out for the average citizen, who can we count on? [AmLaw Daily and CNN]
In reports as salacious as they are shocking, the media is reporting that the leader of a “Girls Gone Wild” film crew has been revealed to be a pervert douchebag. Matthew O’Sullivan, 37, was brought up on charges this week for sexually assualting a 20-year-old girl he met at a Long Island bar where his crew was filming a wet T-shirt contest. O’Sullivan apparently asked the young woman—who was not a contestant—to “join him for a bawdy bus bash in the bar’s parking lot at 2 a.m.” after the shoot was done.
Officials with the Suffolk county D.A.’s office have explained that the young woman boarded the bus “just to see what was going on,” at which point she and O’Sullivan “started touching and kissing, which she had no problem with.” Things, however, “took a tawdry turn when he allegedly pulled down her shorts and underwear as he put his hands around her throat to keep her from running out.” The young woman was able to break free and call the authorities, who subsequently arrested O’Sullivan and charged him with a criminal sexual act in the first degree.
Legal pundits following the case have expressed their support for the victim’s fight, though they have offered a word of advice for ladies who may find themselves in similar situations in the near future: When a camera guy for “Girls Gone Wild” asks you to hang out with him on a party-bus in the parking lot of a bar in the middle of the night after a wet T-shirt contest, chances are he doesn’t have your best interests necessarily at heart. Just something to think about. [NY Post]
Amber Arpaio, a 26-year-old Jersey girl, is suing hooker-to-the-sort-of-stars Ashley Dupre and a whole bunch of other folks for allegedly stealing her identity and sullying her good name. Arpaio, who works in a dental office, claims that Dupre “somehow” stole her driver’s license in 2003 to convince Girls Gone Wild producers that she was old enough to be filmed and that part of the license is visible on the video of a dancing Dupre currently being hawked on the Girls Gone Wild website.
In her federal lawsuit filed last week, Arpaio claims that “Dupre’s use of her license has now linked her name to the Spitzer scandal and Dupre’s naked cavorting and career as a prostitute.” Hm. We’re not so sure about that, Ambs. Was it Dupre’s massive and all-encompassing identity heist that linked your name to the scandal or was it filing this lawsuit that did the trick? Because, while we hate to burst your bubble, we think it’s a pretty safe bet that if people watching the dancing-naked-girl video were focusing on anything that Ashley Dupre was flashing, chances are, it wasn’t your “stolen” drivers license. [The Smoking Gun]
