Joe Francis to Candy: Back Off!!!

Posted May 19th 2007 3:15PM by TMZ Staff

Joe Francis has fired back at Candy Spelling for the open letter posted this morning on TMZ. Francis is currently in Federal custody. Spelling's letter was read to Francis this morning by phone. Francis tells TMZ he wrote the response himself.

Dear Candy:

I don't know you, I have never met you and I don't know anything about you. After reading your letter posted on the internet, my mental picture of you is of a lonely old woman living in a mansion in Holmby Hills with let's say 300 cats jumping around, some in their own feces.

I have tried to think to myself what would compel a woman such as yourself to write a letter to someone they have never met? Even worse, you are making up your mind based on headlines. I can understand you writing Paris Hilton a letter out of care because as you said in your letter, you have known her most of her life. Then again, it's sad and pathetic you had the audacity to post that letter on the internet instead of just sending it to Paris personally.

Candy, you don't know any of the facts concerning my situation. I am a hardworking, compassionate and honest person. I will prevail just as I have in the past because overcoming adversity is not only a part of the entrepreneurial experience but a part of life. You should appreciate this and know this more than anyone and I am ashamed of you for forgetting how hard it is to make it in this world and the people who would love to tear you down because you have. Sadly, it appears you have become one of those people.

Contrary to what you have said in your letter, my world has not changed. My business Girls Gone Wild is thriving and posted record sales last month. Most important, my friends and my family (I love you guys....) have stood by me. This whole situation will be over soon and I will be standing strong.

I have never played a victim but I have always been a fighter. I will ultimately prevail in the matters at hand but I am concerned that you will die a lonely and unfulfilled person playing with those cats and posting open letters to people you have never met on the internet.

Sincerely,

Joe Francis

Filed under: Celebrity Justice

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211. I meant Save Candy and the Cats

Posted at 7:41AM on May 22nd 2007 by Save Candy and the cats, anymore mental pictures Francis?

212. EVERYBODY IS DAYING HOW JOE FRANCIS EXPLOITED WOMEN. FOR ONE THAT I DO NOT BELIEVE. ANYONE THAT IS STUPID ENOUGH TO FLASH A CAMERA DRUNK OR NOT IS AN IDIOT IN MY OPINION. LIKE LEELEE SAID STUPID AND DUMB WOMEN HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR AGES. JUST TO LET YOU KNOW WHY IS ANY ONE NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT GUYS GONE WILD. I HAVE BEEN TO SPRING BREAK A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND LET ME TELL YOU PEOPLE THERE WAS DOING SOME PRETTY STUPID STUFF AND HALF OF THESE IDIOTS WAS NOT DRUNK.

Posted at 11:57AM on May 23rd 2007 by KIM

213. Candy really needs to find something else to do. like worry about her own daughter and her grandson. where in the hell does she get off putting her nose in other people's business! god get a freakin life already. like she's all that anyway. LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE CANDY! STUPID HOE

Posted at 2:49PM on May 23rd 2007 by Karina Dickens

214. If Joe did write this and his lawyer is printing it out and taking it to him.

Then please tell Joe we want him back in Panama City the cop killer is missing is little cupcake bitch . Come on back to Panama City Joe you little cry baby pervert.

Posted at 7:35PM on May 23rd 2007 by TLT

215. Francis ,

you stated that you were concerned that, " Candy would die a lonely, unfulfilled woman

playing with those cats, writing open letters to people you have never met on the internet",

may I, now suggest ,that it will be you, Francis , who will die a lonely, unfulfilling inmate,

playing with those naughty prisoners, (instead of the cats you detest), rebutting open letters

on the internet that speak the truth.

Posted at 9:00AM on May 28th 2007 by Francis, lets turn it around here

216. Medication works wonders, pretty soon you will no longer see 300 cats jumping around, it will be cut down to 50.

Posted at 9:07AM on May 28th 2007 by Have the cats shown up? by no more mental pictures

217. Keep ya head up Joe!.....Life is like a roller coaster ....ya got ya ups and ya downs!

Posted at 1:08PM on May 29th 2007 by johntyblack

218. GO TO SPRING BREAK AND CLUBS AND YOU WILL SEE
WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT CONCERNING THE IDIOTS.

Posted at 12:27PM on Jun 4th 2007 by KRISTI THE LAWYER

219. maybe candy will write a letter to pres bush about important things like bringing my neighbors, friends, brothers and sisters home soon hey i know maybe d#@k head joe can fund the war with his back taxes

Posted at 10:28AM on Jun 5th 2007 by Americans are so trite

220. while i have never watched more than the commercials for girls gone wild, i don't judge him wrongly based on it. candy spelling is an old bitter hag who out of spite would deny her own daughter money that her father wanted her to have. wtf is that. i doubt very much that this woman has had ONE day of work in her life. i don't know what was going through her mind by posting a random letter like that and i'm glad he replied in a polite and mature manner; he has a right to defend himself.

Posted at 4:44PM on Jun 7th 2007 by hora

221. To Joe Francis,

I, fortunately, am the mother of two young men who would never degrade a woman, much less patronize your so-called art. I do however, feel very sorry for the millions of young women who are so desperate for attention that they would not only take their clothes off for a predator like you, but would feel "special" for being exploited in your videos. The youth of America is in a very sad state that they idolize an idiot like you. I will pray for you and hope that God is as benevolent and forgiving as I have always been told. You will need all the help you can get, brother.

Posted at 2:23PM on Jun 11th 2007 by Cindy

222. Joes Francis is a piece of garbage just like Paris Hilton. I hope they share an electric chair together.

Posted at 1:22PM on Jun 13th 2007 by Bababooey

223. (I AGREE WITH LEELEE)
ALL OF YOU JOE FRANCIS HATERS NEED TO SHUT UP. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU BEEN TO EITHER SPRING BREAK OR A NIGHT CLUB WHERE PEOPLE HAVE HAD ONE TOO MANY DRINKS AND DID SOME PRETTY STUPID THINGS. I HAVE NEVER DID THE SPRING BREAK THING BUT I BEEN TO A NIGHT CLUB WHERE PEOPLE GET STUPID AFTER HAVING TOO MANY DRINKS. NOBODY HELD A GUN TO THESE GIRLS HEAD TO FLASH THE CAMERAS AND DO RETARDED STUFF NOR DID NOBODY HAVE HELD A GUN TO THEIR HEADS AND FORCED THEM TO GET DRUNK. THAT NIGHT AT THE CLUB I WAS DRUNK BUT I DID NOT DO ANYTHING STUPID BECAUSE I KNEW MY LIMITS. SO ALL YOU PEOPLE NEED TO LOOK BACK IN YOUR LIVES AND LOOK AT ALL THE DUMB THINGS YOU DID. THESE GIRLS NEED NO SYMPATHY FROM BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT GETTING IT. THEY ARE GROWN AND THEY SHOULD KNOW BETTER AND THEY SHOULD THINK USING THEIR HEADS.

Posted at 9:35PM on Nov 29th 2007 by TIM

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