Joe Francis, founder of the "Girl Crazy" Empire, is humiliating me.
He pressed my face on the hood of the car and my arms twisted hard behind my back.
He said to me, "This is what they did to me in Panama City!
"After 3. m.
We are in a parking lot in the suburbs of Chicago.
The nightclub across the street is buzzing with electronic music and it's easy to mix with the laughter of the person who is watching this, this one of mepinned-and-helpless thing.
Francis did not laugh.
I don't know why. he's angry with me.
He kept walking around the Panama City Beach, a spring break in northern Florida, three years after the deputy of the Bay County Sheriff arrested him for extortion, drug trafficking and promoting children's sexual behavior.
When he yelled, I was wondering if it was a flashback or if he punished me for being the only blonde who didn't wear a thong.
This is for sure: he has at least 80 pounds on me and I think he will break my left arm.
My eyes began to shed tears.
When I signed up for a trip to Joe Frances world, this is not what I was looking forward.
I 've been with him since early afternoon, listening to him teasing the staff, taking a private jet, eating fast food, watching the young woman 6-foot-2-
"We want to be crazy ! "
"Tonight, we spent nearly five hours in a night club with sweaty's back, packed with 2,500 very young, very drunk people.
A club like this is the fertile land of Francis.
He made a lot of money by selling videos of women who agreed to shoot their breasts and French --
Kiss their friends in front of the camera.
In exchange, a crazy girl will get a T-
Shirt, underwear, maybe the hat of the truck driver.
It was a typical night for him.
He is looking around the club for young women, and most of them are drunk.
Because filming was not allowed inside, he and his newly discovered entourage walked outside to a "Girl Crazy" tour bus parked across the street.
Before getting on the plane, he walked in my direction, and what I knew next was that he made 2003 arrests against me.
I twisted freely, punched his face and closed --
Fist, but not too hard.
"Damn it," said the bystander . "
Francis barely blinks.
He grabbed my notebook.
He was so busy, and while he was jumping a boxer by my side, his wide face sneered, and as I tried to walk away, he jabbed, chirping the notebook on the chest
He poked a finger in my face and shouted, "you don't care about the 1st Amendment.
I care about the 1st Amendment, but you are the kind of journalist who doesn't care.
"Maybe you 've seen the recently released ad" Girls Get Crazy --
Advertising mail, cable TV at night
Order videos of women exposing themselves ("and more!
As the jacket promised.
Francis did not invent the concept of spring break.
All the revelry, flustered connections, wet T-
Shirt match and like youonly-live-
Once it needs to be displayed-
But he and his company, Mantra Entertainment, have fixed themselves in the middle of this young field and spread it --
American hedonism of the world.
People close to Francis told me that by packaging and spreading it, the spell's annual sales are as high as $40 million.
Francis, 33, said nearly a decade after serving as the King of soft porn that he wanted to leave the Twilight City and get into the mainstream.
He quickly listed the items he said he had in his work: a feature --
Length movie, "Girl Crazy" ocean cruise series, "Girl Crazy" costume series, and a series of "Girl Crazy" restaurants.
He said he is making a series of new videos called "flirting" that will be vivid but not clear and can be sold on a large scale
Retail stores such as Wal-MartWalmart and Target.
All in all, Francis wants to suggest himself and his view of the world in the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the holidays and entertainment --
Shooting and shine
What you consume.
He thinks "Girls Get Crazy" is the ultimate lifestyle brand.
"Sex sells everything," he said . "
"It drives every purchase decision. . .
I hate being too deep and philosophical here, but only the person with the greatest sexual desire is the most motivated and successful person.
"Mantra's headquarters is in Santa Monica, right across the street from MTV. the decoration is single fashion: Ping-
TV screen, light, candy bowl.
Francis doesn't show up every day.
He said it was because a large part of his work was only seen, not in the office.
He also doesn't often go to the "girls crazy" call center in Inglewood.
One day, the staff there received a rare treat from the boss.
Avoid eye contact and wear a T-shirt
With shirts and sneakers, Francis looks more like a child going to his father's office than the CEO of his own company.
But when he pushed the two doors open, his staff couldn't breathe.
"Joe Francis.
"Wow, I like your work," said a young man who passed by him in the hall in surprise.
Francis smiled uncomfortably as the man kept toying, "Wow. Wow.
Just past the call center at Los Angeles International Airport, where 250 employees take turns working shifts, they earn $9 an hour, plus commissions, peddling videos of "girls getting crazy" for only $9. 99 each.
The whiteboard on the wall sets the agenda: "push porn! ! !
"Most of these workers are young African-Americans, and the video they are pushing is almost entirely white girls in their 20 s.
You like to watch triple. X, right?
You saw our dog. style videos?
"Well, I'll send you eight of the hottest videos of the year," said the court.
Francis served as a playboy host in many videos, surrounded by members of the opposite sex, who seemed amused by his appearance.
"Spring Break 2005: everything goes well!
"Like most of Mantra's video products.
The bikini-clad woman stared at the camera and smirked to explain how crazy their holiday was: a collective shower, oral sex with strangers in the bar, a topless dance.
A girl surrounded by friends explained, "I'm ready and willing, I'm a Dirty Slut.
"Spring Break 2005", Francis and his crew hovered on the beaches of Miami, South Padre Island, Cancun and other sunny destinations.
The women they shot were not just taking off their tops, they took everything away and had sex with each other.
Francis often stood on the other side of the camera and asked sweetly if he could hold the girls' tops and ask for their schedules, accusing them of "being too naughty, he said he wanted to see if they shaved off their genitals and asked them to play with their breasts and bend over to expose their thong underwear. They comply.
Francis has aligned his camera to a generation whose concept of privacy and sex is different from anyone else.
Nowadays, many young people work on MySpace's profile and reality TV shows, and they are happy to be taken permanently and posted on the Internet for anyone to see.
The boundaries of inclusion have also disappeared.
Whether it's 13-year-
The 16-year-old watched Britney's video. year-
Wax their pubic hair to mimic porn stars or 17-year-oldyear-
Young people watch videos of the most intimate acts performed by celebrities, and youth culture is immersed in sexual behavior.
Francis created his own celebrity.
Not only did he become famous for selling soft porn, but by connecting with a tribe whose notoriety was extended by tabloids.
He has a romantic connection with heiress Paris Hilton and Rod Stewart's daughter Kimberly Stewart, who is reported in the gossip column as receiving Lindsay Lohan, jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughan are at home in Mexico.
Until recently, the sixth page of The New York Post, World Records, saw Francis as an irrelevant hanger --on.
Francis then held a bachelor party in Mexico for Richard Johnson, editor of the page, and a few weeks later, page 6 wondered if he would be the next Hugh Hefner, could even be a candidate to buy Playboy.
Francis is pleased to acknowledge that he has received attention.
He said the effort was not for his self but for the sale of his products.
"Everything under my name is driving the business," he said . ".
These two are synonyms.
You have to fight this image.
Francis grew up in Laguna Beach, went to the University of Southern California, started working in the hard world of real TV, worked as a production assistant on "real TV", "joint performance of the family --video bloopers.
He said that after noting that most of the material submitted for the show was too violent or too clear for Internet TV, he came up with the idea of his first commercial video adventure.
On 1997, he used $50,000 in credit card debt to release a lens compilation of terrible accidents --
Shark Attack, train wreckage and general Gore.
Francis then moved on and released the first "Crazy Girl" in 1998 ".
On 2000, producer Les Haber, who worked with Francis on real TV, sued for breach of implied contracts, breach of confidence and unjust enrichment.
He accused Francis of stealing the idea after Harber proposed the idea of "banning TV" to Francis as a potential partner.
The jury found Francis and his company responsible for $3. 5 million;
Later, the two sides reached an agreement on an undisclosed sum of money.
Francis seems to have spent a lot of money on lawyers.
I think it has to do with shooting strangers who took off their clothes.
More than a dozen women sued him, claiming that his company used images of their exposed bodies in videos, box covers and advertisements where "girls get crazy" without their permission.
Only a few people convinced the court that they were uninformed victims.
The judge and jury largely supported the French 1st Amendment's argument that the plaintiff's image was taken in a public place and that the company was free to use it, especially considering that women had signed a waiver.
On the beach in Panama City, his lawyers managed to fight another battle.
A copy has been submitted by the authorities-
The state circuit court charged Francis and his crew with gathering a group of minors. a 16-year-Old four 17-year-olds—
Take them to the Castle motel.
There, Francis paid two girls $100 per person for makeup in the shower, while his staff videotaped them and told the two girls, he will pay them $50 per person to follow the complaint.
Francis pleaded not guilty to all charges.
After the sheriff's deputy arrested him, he spent a night in prison.
The delegates seized his Gulfstream jet, silver Ferrari and a large number of videos, which authorities said showed he encouraged underage girls to have sex. (
Francis, who tried to take advantage of the scandal for profitable purposes, released "Girls get crazy: Videos of being detained", showing scenes taken on the beaches of the city of Panama. )
His lawyer asked a judge to suppress all the evidence, claiming that it had been illegally confiscated, and she agreed.
The parents of four girls in the Castle motel case filed a civil lawsuit in federal court accusing Francis and his company of a series of crimes, including child abuse and sexual exploitation.
Eleven months ago, FBI agents searched mantra's office under a search warrant issued by Washington.
People close to the investigation said the FBI was investigating a spell suspected of shooting underage girls.
Frances's lawyer, Michael Kerry Burke, said mantra was aware of the investigation and that other companies had received similar arrest warrants.
The more time I spend with Francis, the more I doubt what he says about realizing his dreams, and he is pretending to be passionate.
His franchise is essentially a constant party and can be exhausting.
Two tour buses with the "Girl Crazy" logo hanging around the country every day, looking for the latest and hottest shots for the millions of videos the company sells every year.
In order to receive the French film crew, the club's promoters will pay up to $10,000 a night, which will surely attract a large audience.
Money is pouring in.
But Francis told me that the woman was changing, which made him sad.
In the beginning, when the photographers of "Girls Get Crazy" first appeared at the club, it seemed that the women who exposed themselves were innocent --
Even surprised by their own spontaneous behavior.
Now that the brand is very popular, more and more women seem to be calculating the exposed, hoping that the appearance on the video will take them to Paris Hilton --like fame.
Francis was a little old during spring break.
He said he was tired of the eternal holiday.
"It's really the worst thing in my opinion," he compared it to a trade show or conference.
"Everyone else is very happy except me.
I was just followed by the kids.
Spring break is not more interesting.
"What's more, the media is everywhere," he said. "The media is too picky.
"I was raped over and over by the media.
"It was a strange thing for him.
On January 2004, as reported in the news, he was forced to simulate sodomy with a vibrator under the gun, and the intruder was in his Bel-Air mansion. A 28-year-
14 months later, after police received news from Paris Hilton, the old man named Darnell Riley was arrested.
Riley admitted attempted robbery and extortion and was sentenced to 10 years and eight months in prison.
He served his sentence at cokelan state prison.
On his jet, Joe Francis flew over the United States, fell asleep, curled up on a folded leather bench, wrapped in crisp white sheets.
His sunburned face was still there, and his big mouth was loose.
Gulfstream is reserved to meet his needs.
A Sony console, a pile of newspapers and magazines, a cabinet full of wine and soft drinks, and a drawer full of snacks. M & M and sugar free gum.
Nearby, his young crew sat quietly, and were careful not to disturb him.
When Francis woke up from his nap, he went to the bathroom wearing white socks.
There, the lamps sparkled, the hand towel was plush and white, and his initials were stitched with gold thread.
His team was respectful to him and when he told them that I was the new "girl getting crazy" naked upper body model, they smiled obediently, even though the joke was over-used
Francis has back-to-back confidence, charm and cunning wisdom
Applaud the leaders of the Brotherhood
In a way, he can be persuasive when he thinks that "Girls Get Crazy" is just a good time for everyone.
On the plane, his foot kicked in the seat in front of him and he turned to me to think about what kind of footage his crew would collect that night.
He said he hoped the girls would be beautiful.
Beautiful and wild
He said he likes women and is crazy for them.
But sometimes it sounds like he's not.
The words he chooses, the stories he tells
They put forward different views.
"My favorite thing is to explain to the stupid chick why the qwerty keyboard is called the qwerty keyboard and why the letters are not neat," he told me . ".
"They're 18 years old. they're like, 'Wait, are there any typewriters?
You have to start there.
"I glanced at him and said I didn't know what he was talking about.
I didn't spend much time and 18-year-
The girls I know have heard of typewriters recently.
But qwerty keyboard?
Never heard of it.
His eyes looked at my blank eyes and patted me with joy.
He said excitedly, "Wait a minute . "
"You are a writer in Los Angeles. A.
Don't you know the answer to this question?
"He was shouting and turning to the back of the plane to make sure everyone heard it.
"Incredible, she's 29 years old and she doesn't know anything about the qwerty keyboard!
"It looks like this is a game.
He's joking. Sort of.
"She's going to kill me now," he shouted to the group as I continued to smile, writing on my notebook that the recorder was running.
Obviously, he wants more reaction.
He wrote an article that made me type angrily.
"She'll look at her keyboard, 'Ah, you think you're so smart now.
Qwerty keyboard.
Who's smart now?
He sounds very happy.
"She's going to put that tape back.
This will echo in her mind.
Qwerty, qwerty, qwerty.
She's going crazy.
"In my early 90 s, when I was in senior 2 in Iowa, two senior boys bought themselves a laminating machine and set up an association that they called a" horny club.
"To get access, the girls have to unbutton the shirt, unbutton the hinges of the bra, and bare breasts for at least 10 seconds.
They received a laminated membership card and a car reward in co-founder's 1989 red Trans Am.
The two seniors focused on my friends. They were rebellious and too young to drive.
I'm not interested.
Although I often lose weight
With a large group of kids, the idea of taking off a shirt for two stupid guys in exchange for a badge seems stupid.
No one will fall in love with it.
One summer, my best friend and I were on the way to the video store and the train stopped.
The owner of the layer press rolled down the window and pointed to my friend and said, "she can come in, but Claire, you can't.
"I turned to her in shock.
She's a shy, straightA student.
Why is she doing this?
Her answer was: "Just for fun.
"I know what Frances says is that women are bare for" Girls get crazy "because they like --
Though the undeniable selfserving—
At least part is correct.
But I found myself asking my friends in Iowa the same question: why?
Francis has no answer.
"I never paid attention to why they did it," he said . ".
"It's a force, it's a freedom," he said.
"I asked, will he do this?
"Probably not," he replied . ""I'm too shy.
"I called the sociologist, Vicky Mayer, assistant professor at Durham University, for guidance.
Mayer taught a class about the nude ceremony on the infamous Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
She researched and wrote about "Girls Get Crazy" and she thought it was simple to say that spells use women.
"For some women it's a liberation, for some women it's something they do on goof, or to show friends what they can do, Mayer said: "It's a way for some people to flirt with photographers. ".
Francis and his staff insisted that it was the "girl next door" they were looking for the video ".
In reality, girls who "Girls get wild" are almost always slim and young, have good teeth, and the private part is also very careful.
Meanwhile, the spell recruits hard
Work and attractive young people, they will be able to be sweet
Convince women to take off their clothes for the camera. (
Mantra has released several "men crazy" DVDs taken by female photographers, but they are not on sale either. )
Mayer, who studied young photographers, said they often signed up because they wanted to enter Hollywood.
She said, normally, they're going to be on T-shirt.
"Although it is easy to see this as a simple man's relationship with a woman in some way, exploitation is a relationship with one another.
I think both sides can be seen as being used.
She concluded that the winner was "The owners of these companies who are hiring cheap labor and free talent for media products . ".
"Francis arrived at the nightclub outside Chicago and waved in front of a long team of snakes at a low level --slung building.
His staff followed him, a document, when he passed through a group of young women and young men who were surrounded by synthetic Victoria Secret sex, they were pimples though --
In the face, confidence in Abercrombie and Fitch has been sent out.
His entourage bypassed a large empty table, headed to the bar and climbed onto a narrow platform surrounded by metal fences.
This is the VIP area.
Women dressed in fishing nets greeted the crew in a "girl getting crazy" vest, not many others.
They twisted each other, and their faces were fixed by a blank sexual gaze.
Everyone gathered around a small table with Red Bull, vodka and fruity drinks.
When I turned to a beautiful group of girls, Jillian vangtry, 21year-
Old classmate, give me a warm smile.
I feel like I'm in the bed of a kitten.
I asked her why she was here?
"Anyone enjoys this kind of attention. T-shirts, hats—
"We got all the accessories," she said . ".
I asked her if she was going to shoot the camera crazy in the future. She shrugs.
"If you do this, you do it," she said confidently . ".
"You can't complain later.
Like 15 minutes of your fame.
"I had my bad fruity cocktail, one of the two cocktails I was going to take care of that night, and then turned to Chris parrissey, the road manager at Frances
He said his boss was very good.
"He created a monster: name, image, brand --
He created something that everyone knows or wants to be a part.
Even my dad knows that "girls are crazy ".
The name itself is strong, and he is strong.
They all want to feel like part of Joe's world.
Francis returned from his dance. floor foray.
He is super excited, like a kid who eats sugar and speaks fast.
He said he found the ultimate quarry: a girl who said she would stay for a few more hours when she was 17 and she wanted to shoot the camera crazily while she was legal.
"The girls are crazy" the crew can get a $1,000 bonus if they find such a treasure, he shouted happily.
I followed Francis and his bodyguard in the crowd looking for Kettering Butma.
She danced on the podium and jumped down as soon as she saw Francis.
She wore a dress. and-
Expose her stomach, most of her breasts, and most of her shirt set at the bottom.
I asked her why she was showing up on crazy girl and she looked into my eyes and said, "I want everyone to see me because I'm hot.
"Then it hit me: it was much bigger than Francis.
In such a culture, cheap and portable video technology allows everyone to play on stardom, and the desire to peek at reality shows in the United States seems to never be satisfied, teenagers, just like this club sees the camera as a verification.
"Most men want to have sex with me, maybe I can meet a new man, but everyone can see me if I get photographed," Bultema said . ".
"If you do this, you may be noticed by others --
Act as an actor or model.
"I asked her why she wanted attention.
"You want people to say, 'Hey, I saw you.
Everyone wants to be famous to some extent.
Being famous can get anything I want.
If I walk into someone's house and say, 'Give this to me', I can have it.
"Above the dance floor, the stage is filled with girls who spin, twist, and up and down three strip poles.
One of them is Jannel Szyszka, one 18-year-
Old man like a star on the stage.
At her feet, the crowd of hundreds of people swayed with the vigorous family music. Dozens of polo-
The shirt boy yelled at her and asked for things like "Shake your tits" and "get rude (meaning crazy-drunk).
Szyszka later told me that when she was spinning around the strip that night, Francis showed up and grabbed her arm and pulled her to him.
"You will definitely take the bus in the future," she recalled Francis . ".
"I thought, well, okay. I was shocked.
I think, 'Wow-
Joe tried to talk to me like all the girls here.
She said that Francis invited her back to the VIP area to take pictures with him and she agreed.
Szyszka says the more she drinks, the more vague her judgment will be.
She said she agreed to join Francis and his crew on the "Girl Crazy" bus.
"I think 'Girl is crazy 'is like a flash, I think I will flash and finish.
So when I got to the bus, I thought that was what was going to happen.
She said: "She felt very comfortable at first.
She said she was taken to the back of the bus and came to a small bedroom.
Double bed with neatly folded rainbow-colored purple sheets occupying most of the rooms. A flat-
Bed facing screen TV, the cabinet is filled with remote controls, lubricants, condoms, sex toys in plastic bags, baby oil, a DVD called "How to be a player" and a clipboard full of signature exemptions for girls.
There's a small bathroom next to it, half of it.
The size of the shower comes with faux marble tiles and there is a crate on the shower floor with cheap fruit
Rum, whiskey, tequila and KoolAid.
The video that night showed
From Szyszka's driver's license, it turns out that she is not a minor.
Then the camera shot Szyszka lying on the bed.
Her nails were broken and her eyes were put on makeup.
As instructed by the photographer, she showed her chest and said, "the girls are getting crazy.
She looks shy but willing. She smiles.
The invisible photographer asked her to take off her shirt, skirt and underwear.
She lay on the bed with her legs open.
At his suggestion, she masturbated with a fake penis and repeatedly said it was painful but felt good.
Francis enters the room at certain times, and you hear his voice and tell her in a low and frivolous manner, "You are so lovely.
When she said she was a virgin, he replied, "that's great.
After my photographer broke up with you, you wouldn't.
"Seven days later, when I spoke to Szyszka, she said she" didn't realize "that she was being filmed.
"But I didn't care, because I was drunk. who cares?
Then she added: "It was not at all comfortable for me, but I was completely pretending because I was on crazy girl.
In the end, Francis told the photographer to leave, push her back to bed, untie the jeans and climb onto her, Szyszka said.
"I told him it was painful and he did it all the time.
I kept telling him it hurts.
I said "no" twice at first, when I started saying "Oh my God, it hurts.
I kept telling him it was painful but he kept on going and he said he was sorry and just kissed me so I wouldn't talk again.
"Later, she said, Francis wiped both of them clean with paper towels and told her to get dressed.
Then, she said, he opened the door and told the photographer to come back and say, "she is no longer a virgin.
Szyszka said Francis told her that what had happened had to stay between them.
She said she agreed and they went to the front of the bus.
Szyszka remembers one of the crew returning her driver's license.
She was also asked if she wanted to hang out on the bus.
She said she refused, but asked Francis to promise her three pairs of "loot short" underwear that appeared in front of the camera.
"They gave me a strange look as if it was too much," Szyszka recalled . ".
"They're like three of them?
I said, yes, three.
Szyszka said she told her father within a few days that the father was angry about what she said, but kept silent at her request.
She said she told her sister and mother a month after the incident.
She admitted that she was confused about what had happened.
She said she felt guilty at first about getting into trouble.
She said she would never undress for the camera if she wasn't completely drunk.
She insisted on saying "no" to Francis ".
She said she was haunted that night.
"I think it's planned," she said . ".
"Sometimes when I drive, I think about it. I suddenly feel very strange.
"Six weeks after that night outside Chicago, when I called Francis and asked him about it, he said he didn't remember Szyszka and he didn't have sex with anyone that night.
He seems to have lost control, repeatedly describing my female genitals in a raw word.
"If you print it out, I will [expletive]sue the [expletive]out of you.
"If you print it out, baby, you nail the nail in your coffin," he told me . ". "You are a [
Dirty words].
You decided to surprise me. . . You are a [expletive]bitch . . .
The last time I laughed at youI will get you.
"Then he pointed me to Burke, his lawyer. In an e-
Burke said Francis and sezka did have sex. consensual sex—
Francis and anyone associated with "Crazy Girl" did not give her any alcohol. "Neither Mr.
Francis and any GGW staff inside or around the bus did not recall Ms.
Szyszka makes any complaint or comment to Mr. Francis. In fact, Ms.
"After the encounter, Szyszka was in good spirits, and many witnesses said she danced with friends outside the bus for nearly two hours," Burke wrote . ".
He added: "Although Sir
Francis can't talk to her.
Other news reports commented that Mr. Szyszka felt unwell when he encountered
It is said that Francis goodendowed.
The message that Francis left in my office's voicemail sounds scary: "I 've seen some excerpts from your article, and I guess you 've sent it to the photographer, well, I want to talk to you about it.
"There is no photographer for this story and no excerpts have been sent to anyone.
I don't call Francis back right away, so he called my editor.
He told her that I was obsessed with him and that I had an axe to grind because of my jealousy and anger.
"I just thought Claire might have a little affection for me," he said as she took notes.
"It might have come out when she had a few drinks.
He described my behavior as romantic.
"She hit me.
That's how I met her.
I took her to lunch.
She called me all the time and it was not a matter of work.
It's about me.
When a girl is obsessed with me, I know.
"He told her I drank too much --"we all were"—
And offered to send photos to prove this.
When my editor asked him if he had put his hand on me that night, he did not hesitate.
"I did have physical contact with her --
But not romantic. "He said.
"We were standing next to a police car outside.
The police officer told her not to take notes on what he said.
I said there is no press freedom here.
I held her arm behind my back and said, let's send her to prison.
I said she should go to jail and the police officer agreed with me.
She was not satirized.
She listened to him.
She stopped writing.
Can you believe it?
This is the 1st Amendment.
She's not a reporter.
I support the 1st Amendment. But she didn't.
He told my editor that my problem was that I was "not smart enough" to "understand" what he said.
When I started pulling police and court records, I found out that I was not the only woman who made Francis angry.
On 2000, Stephanie Van der Mott, the property manager of his Santa Monica apartment, received a restraining order asking him to be at least 100 yards from her.
According to court documents, she said that Francis was disturbed by the noise garbage collector in the morning, harassed and threatened her, climbed up the window of her bedroom twice and slammed the glass violently, he yelled at her whenever he saw her.
She said that he appeared in her office several times, asking her by using the raw words of the female genitals and leaving a message with a colleague
Worker: "Tell the bitch it's war.
"Frances's lawyer said he could not comment on the case.
On 2003, Adrian Matthias-
Paterson discovered the location and rented a space for the Halloween party that Francis threw, and he submitted a police report saying that when she told him that she could not return his $25,000 deposit, he threatened to kill her because 2,000 guests had destroyed the place.
She told the police that he was furious at her and said, "I'm going [expletive]get you, you [expletive]
"Prostitute" and repeat the same crude words.
Two weeks later, Matthias
The pregnant Paterson had a miscarriage.
She later sued Francis and his company in the Los Angeles County High Court on the grounds of emotional distress and the case was resolved in an undisclosed amount.
Frances's lawyer said he could not comment on the case.
On 2004, a woman reported the case to the police alleging that Francis had given her medicine.
She told police that she met Francis at a bar in South Beach, Florida.
There they were arguing over the moral issues of the "girl getting crazy" video and she went to his room in Ritz --
Carlton had a drink and woke up in the bed next to him the next morning.
The police gave up the investigation on the grounds of lack of evidence, and Francis sued the woman for defamation in the Illinois court, which is under trial.
He's seeking $25,000,036.
Including $36 in the room.
He said that the plaintiff and her girlfriend bought the burger the morning after the sexual act agreed upon by both parties.
Francis said at a press conference at the time: "I will not sit down and be called a rapist.
Rape is a serious crime that I personally find disgusting.
As a son, as a brother of the three sisters I like so much, I would never have sex with a woman without her consent.
"I have two more calls to make about me this time.
I called Ementi Coary at Melrose Park and got sick.
Saw Francis beat my policeman.
He said that he did not intervene at the time because the crew of the "girl became crazy" told him that Francis and I were "hooked up" and that we "had something to do" and I was just jealous.
"My impression is that you know each other, something has happened between you and you are playing," Coary said . ".
"I changed my mind when he grabbed your arm.
It doesn't look like it's playing anymore.
"At that time, Frances's bodyguard separated us and escorted me to the edge of the parking lot. Curry asked for support;
Soon after, a patrol car came.
"He's one of those rich people, and he does whatever he wants," Coary continued . ".
"I 'd love to put that guy in jail.
"He advised me to make the charge that night, but I refused.
Then I called Leland Zaitz, who worked for Francis at Melrose Park, was a producer and was in the parking lot during the episode.
Zaitz said he explained the whole thing as Francis was affectionate to me, even though the pressure he put was so strong that a few hours later my arms were covered with red handprints.
"He started to have a good time and he realized that most people couldn't keep up with him and he became a little rough.
"I think it's just Joe's banter and stupid version," Zaitz said . ".
"I think he's trying to get you closer.
"When I think back to that night, our open melee didn't seem to be the most telling.
The moment I saw Francis most clearly
His charm, his anger, his cunning, and even his regret
Later, when no one saw it, it came.
I waited outside the club for a taxi to take me back to the hotel but was still shocked.
Francis, who disappeared in the bus, came back.
He ignored the two police officers wandering a few yards away, and tipto walked past them with his toes and stood in front of me.
He rubbed my shoulder.
His gesture was surprisingly gentle. even fond. I felt sick.
"I'm sorry," he said, reaching out to touch my hair.
We like our little Reporter. Don't we guys?
We like our little Reporter.
When he whispered in my ear, "I'm sorry, baby, give me a kiss. Give me a kiss.
Claire Hoffman reports on Hollywood and the adult entertainment industry for The Times.