Linda McSteroids'wrestling empire sex and violence juggernaut joins forces the King of underage smut...and given Linda's history with selling sex and violence to children, this should not come as a surprise to anyone.
World Wrestling Entertainment, the company where Connecticut Republican Senate hopeful Linda McMahon served as CEO for years, once teamed up with the 'Girls Gone Wild' enterprise for a pay-per-view event featuring the raunchy, partly-nude show and some of the WWE's wrestling personalities.
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The idea was to have a live special in March of that year, and a press release from Mantra Entertainment, the company behind Girls, issued a month before it was scheduled to occur said the WWE had already started using some storylines from the video series-which typically features young women exposing themselves-in its own programming.
Francis has said he he'd personally played a character on one of the WWE shows, Raw, along with McMahon's husband, Vince.
"It's real girls and there's nothing else like it. I like girls and I really like them naked and I thought other guys would, too," [Girls Go Wild founder Joe] Francis was quoted telling the Monitor of South Texas.
Seems like Francis has a thing for naked "girls"...for instance.
The owner of the "Girls Gone Wild" video empire was arrested yesterday on racketeering charges after Florida cops learned that several underage girls were filmed topless and bathing together at a local motel.
Investigators allege that Joseph Francis, 30, and his cohorts filmed the minors last week during spring break festivities in Panama City. According to cops, the "Girls Gone Wild" team brought two of the girls to a motel where they were each paid $100 for undressing, showering together, and masturbating as they sat on the side of the bathtub. Investigators also allege that Francis offered two of the girls $50 "to touch or play with his penis," and that he and the "Girls Gone Wild" photographer both knew that the girls were all underage.
A Los Angeles federal judge sentenced the "Girls Gone Wild" founder to 200 hours of community service for inadequately documenting video performers' ages.
The sentencing includes two years' probation and a $500,000 fine.
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Under that agreement, struck with the Justice Department last year, Francis admitted to filming underage women -- often nude and intoxicated -- for his videos. He pleaded guilty to two felony counts of violating federal record-keeping laws.
The founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" videos, who makes a reported $29 million selling videos of partially nude, intoxicated girls, pleaded guilty to contempt of court charges and was sentenced to 35 days in jail. Shedding tears, Joe Francis apologized to the court for screaming obscenities at the plaintiffs during settlement discussions.
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Francis' trouble began when, during court-ordered settlement talks with seven women suing him because he filmed them when they were minors, he began shouting obscenities at the women.
Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis resolved his Florida criminal case by pleading no contest to filming underaged girls, but his raunchy video series is still getting him in legal trouble in the Panhandle.
Four additional women sued him last week alleging he exploited them. They say they were 17, 16, 15 and 13 when the company solicited them to participate in sexually provocative videos in 2003 and earlier. They want unspecified monetary damages.
The lawsuit was filed by the same Panama City lawyers who sued Francis in 2003. He settled the older case last year. Another woman sued him in July, saying he got her to expose her breasts for the cameras when she was 16.
The founder of the soft porn "Girls Gone Wild" videos has accepted a plea agreement in his tax evasion case on the day before his trial was set to begin. Under the deal, Francis was sentenced to time already served and one year probation.
Francis will also have to pay $250,000 in restitution to the IRS.
Francis was accused of omitting more than $500,000 in interest income on his 2003 tax returns and was initially accused of taking $20 million in fraudulent tax deductions in 2007.
...like I said, given the McSteroids family's past, this union in smut should not come as a surprise to anyone...
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