Joe Francis, founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" franchise (and my favorite man to loathe), was ordered into the custody of U.S. Marshals Thursday by U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak. The order came after lawyers said said Francis threatened their plaintiffs during negotiations. Seven women who were minors when Francis’ child pornography producing company filmed them on Panama City Beach, are suing after settlement negotiations fell through.
Francis has refused to surrender to the criminal contempt of court claim (much like he refuses to acknowledge his love for exploiting underage teenage girls and sexually assualting women on film) baffling his attorneys and said, "It is a case of a judge gone wild."
I am greatly looking forward to the day that I get to report the imprisonment of Joe Francis, which hopefully, will be any day now. Perhaps Judge Smoak will decide to make an example out of Francis by sentencing him to the fullest extent of the law, instead of the usual namby pamby celebrity sentence.
4/10/2001, UPDATE: Francis was arrested at 6:30 a.m. at the Panama City airport on a warrant seeking his arrest for criminal contempt of court. He is currently being held at the Bay County jail, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshal's Office says.
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