The Verdict: Joe Francis is Still a Sleazehole

By Sarah Dahnke in Miscellaneous on Sep 14, 2006 12:00PM

Fuckin’ finally!

Chicagoist was beginning to think it was a great week for shitty news, but then we read this. Joe Francis, our best friend and maker of Girls Gone Wild, pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting minors in his videos and now must pay fines totaling $2.1 million. He will pay $500,000 out of his own pocket. His production company, Mantra Films, must pay an additional $1.6 million to settle charges from a similar but separate case in Florida.
Francis said in a statement that footage of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct appeared in at least two GGW DVDs.
Francis avoided jail time after MRA Holdings, another company he owns (seriously, this man has a soft core empire), settled with the Justice Department to allow an outside company to monitor its records and production facilities. So those of you that get your rocks off watching videos of high school girls soaping each other’s nether regions may not be able to buy them from informercials on USA at 3 a.m. You'll have to settle for college girls on SPRING BREAK(!!) instead.

And Francis is still denying he forced himself on that girl in Melrose Park.

So we’re glad Francis is out some change, but we were a little sad to find out the douchebag wasn’t actually spending time behind bars. It might be the only way he gets what is coming to him, and the rumors are true, there might actually be penetration this time.

GGW bus photo via Bsivad.