"Girls Gone Wild" Joe Francis Arrested In LA

LOS ANGELES — "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis has been arrested in Los Angeles after he showed up five hours late for a court hearing in his tax evasion case.

When the adult-video entrepreneur finally appeared in court on Monday afternoon, he told the judge he was suffering from the flu. Francis' attorney Melissa Weinberger says U.S. marshals then handcuffed Francis and took him away.

Francis is accused of claiming more than $20 million in bogus business expenses on his corporate tax returns, including $3.8 million for a home in Mexico and $10.4 million in phony consulting services. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of federal tax evasion.

The hearing was to consider a request from his tax attorneys to recuse themselves.

Comments

[DoctorWhoDat]

All you Joe Francis haters out there are just upset because you actually were dumb enough to send in cash for the Girls gone wild CDs.

[protagonia]

Who needed to?

The commercial pretty much covered it.

[EarthToZoey]

No, seriously, he's a complete D-bag. The 'Dream Girls' series is far better than GGW anyway.

[Nikola Tesla]

naughty girl . . . I LIKE IT!

[wadda]

Dumb? h3ll no. When I saw my daughter on the video I was so dang proud I bought copies for all my friends.

[LaHenche]

TORENTZ BITCHEZ!

[nolakola]

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Buh-bye.

[libcrusader]

I hear he is a republican too!!

[nimblehuman]

That would explain why all the republitrolls on this site keep throwing in snarky comments about "liberals".

I hate that word.

[CutToTheChase]

I think his biz was smart and he probably had a hell of a lifestyle akin to Heff and others. But too bad his accountants and lawyers never told him to not be a dumb *ss and to properly create the offshore tax shelters he needed. there are tons of ways.

[Nikola Tesla]

Why does America hate sex and weed? What a bunch of buzz-kill prudes. Life is wasted on you squares.

[Garrett123]

Nothing wrong with either but if you had a little sister up on his vid what would you do?

[Amalek]

What did you do?

[SpaghettyIrish]

Cal her stupid and FF through her scene. Women are responsible for themselves in the US.

[Earl]

Blame my parents.
Start a soft porn business starring my sister.
Pay my taxes.

[Nikola Tesla]

Certainly not watch it.

[nimblehuman]

I think hatred of the above is one hallmark of the disease conservatism.

[patnb]

gross. i hate to use the word "dirt bag", but it's the only word that seems to fit. ewwww

[PleatherBunny]

I love you, Joe!!! Thank you for thousands of hours of home cinematic entertainment!!!

[lolyla]

We really need to come up with an English word for schadenfreude. It'll do for now, though.

[wadda]

There is: epicharikaky.

Well, sorta in glitch.

Better stick with schadenfreude.

[nimblehuman]

Why not just do what English speakers have been doing for centuries, and just say schadenfreude is now an English word?

We could spell it "shaddenfroyd" or something.

[kellygrrrl]

back to the hole dbag

[AN2009]

I can't say I feel bad for Joe Francis.

[fnygy]

I'd call this guy a dirt bag but that wouldn't be fair to dirt.

[jdmba]

He deserves to be behind bars... He needs to pay taxes, considering how much money he's made off women who were questionably able to consent to the use of their image.

[Nikola Tesla]

I'm sure all those adult women are happy you're here to call them all whores.

[jdmba]

Wow. Way to project your own feelings on my comment...­.

Nothing I said had anything to do with their sexuality, one way, or the other.

If anything, I was referring to age and level of intoxication at the time of filming.

Stop looking for a fight!

[johnnygoodwud]

pucker up joe

[tailgateshirts]

They just hate him bc he does porn and some of their daughters probably ended up on a tape or two.

If he was smart he woulda gone off shore with it and setup a headquarters overseas to horde profits.

[realitycheck7]

his mistake was that you cannot cheat on your taxes when you are that high profile

no one told him that important detail

[Nikola Tesla]

HA HA HA! As Wall Street and Banks bleed America dry, WTF are we doing wasting a DIME prosecuting this man?

[mattwg440]

you got it wrong joe. you need tobe a highlevel politician to get away with not paying taxes, sheesh.