Girls Gone Wild founder ordered to jail

dpa German Press Agency Published: Friday April 6, 2007

Los Angeles- The millionaire creator of the Girls Gone Wild
video series has been ordered to jail in connection with a lawsuit
alleging that his film crews pressured girls to appear in sexually
explicit situations, reports said Friday.
US District Court Judge Richard Smoak issued the order following
the breakdown of court-ordered mediation between Francis and lawyers
for the seven plaintiffs, who claimed that Francis had threatened
them during the negotiations and hurled obscenities at them.

Smoak ruled that Francis' behaviour had placed him in contempt of
court. A lawyer for Francis has appealed the jail order while Francis
himself risks a further contempt judgment with his withering comments
about the judge.

"This judge has gone as far as to call me the devil and an
evildoer," Francis said. "It is a case of a judge gone wild."

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