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Joe Francis And The Rise And Fall Of Girls Gone Wild (10/27/25)
Francis launched the Girls Gone Wild empire in 1997, exploiting late-night infomercials and spring-break party footage to turn young, often intoxicated women into the product. The franchise made hundreds of millions while skirting accountability for how women (and in some cases minors) were filmed, packaged, and sold. In 2006 he pleaded guilty to federal charges for failing to maintain proper age and identity records of performers under the federal law 18 U.S.C. § 2257 — a key law designed to keep minors out of sexually explicit material.
But the headline legal record is just part of the picture. Numerous lawsuits and criminal convictions show that the operation was rife with coercion, deception, and abuse: in 2013 Francis was convicted of assault, false imprisonment and intimidation of a witness after luring three women to his apartment and restraining them
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