Celebrity Justice
Joe Francis to Candy: Back Off!!!

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



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31. Hey Joe-you are in jail because you are a bad person. I would never want to be a friend of yours because of what you have done to so many young women, and because you are so seedy! I really wonder how your family ever supported your "career choice", but perhaps your life history has something to do with it. Anyway, you are getting what you deserve, and maybe Candy is just speaking for the rest of us who don't want to hear about this Hollywood BS anymore. You and the rest of you headline-makers seem to have a goal of bringing morality right nto the gutter. Please just go away....no comeback wanted.

Posted at 4:34PM on May 19th 2007 by lbj

32. I don't believe for one second Francis' lawyers would post this for him. If so, he has a good malpractice case when he LOSES his case and the feds use this "letter" at sentencing to show how unremorseful he is.

Posted at 4:34PM on May 19th 2007 by xxxxxxxxxx

33. HE didn't write that story......someone did it for him.....I wish he would quit sending his adverts for his" Girls Gone Wild Videos" to my e-mail...Grrr .....

Posted at 4:35PM on May 19th 2007 by Nance

34. I knew that bastard has been on the internet! in some jails if ur on good behavior they allow you computer time..........sick is it not?

Posted at 4:36PM on May 19th 2007 by ~~20~~

35. I agree with "leelee"
Obviously none of the "joe haters" have ever been to a spring break nor a night club.Those" poor poor girls" were just taken advantage of he held a gun to them and made them lift their shirts up.Gimme a break Ive seen girls do a lot more for alot less than that.They are just pissed when they sober up because they dont want mommy and daddy to know how naughty they are.I dont particularly care for the guy but trust me he will have the last laugh.From what I have seen he lives in a mansion and makes millions every year.

Posted at 4:38PM on May 19th 2007 by wilson

36. Hey Candy,
How do you like public letters now? A taste of your own medicine.

This is way too funny. LMAO!

Posted at 4:39PM on May 19th 2007 by Nic

37. Sounds like Candy has gone off of the deep end.

She's got alot of nerve...... as well as an overblown sense of entitlement!

I was happy to read Joe's reply!

(I wonder if Aaron Spelling is spinning in his grave? Probably not...he was probably used to this nonsense!)

Posted at 4:45PM on May 19th 2007 by Nanette

38. Um, last I heard Joe was released from jail. I could be wrong but, that's just what I was reading right here on TMZ....

Posted at 2:38PM on May 20th 2007 by So Ca Brat

39. Inmates incarerated in Federal prison facilities operated by the US Department of Justice's Bureau of Prisons (BOP) do not have access to the Internet. If Joe Francis is being held in a Federal facility, the only way the letter could be legitimate is if he dictated the letter to an official vistor, who then forwarded it to TMZ on his behalf.

Posted at 4:49PM on May 19th 2007 by Millard

40. This guy is a total sleazeball and getting what he deserves.

He will be in jail a long long time and that is a good thing.

Young girls on spring break or out partying don't need slimy parasites like him lurking around with their video cameras. His whole empire is built on using other people.

His crying and whining show what a total cowardly loser he really is.

What a pathetic fool!

Posted at 4:48PM on May 19th 2007 by jiggy gato

41. i thought they took his drugs away.................

Posted at 5:14PM on May 19th 2007 by annab

42. Oh Good lord; this is truly too much. How can you call your endeavors a business? You have taken advantage of young girls, exposing them for your own profit. I personally hope you sit in jail for a very long time..... and that someday, you will have a daughter of your own, and see personally, what it feels like to have her exploited by an entrepreneurial bimbo that has no moral integrity and purposes to destorys her innocence for his own gain. You think too highly of yourself !! You are no business person, you are a dirty and distrubed pimp.

Posted at 4:54PM on May 19th 2007 by Diana

43. guess he still has not learned ANYTHING! i do think it is funny that he thinks this will all be over soon...........LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Posted at 5:14PM on May 19th 2007 by annab

44. 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

45. LMAO!!! I think possibly they already gave Candy her own column! If that letter is real, then Joe, You're discusting, someone should put you in your place in public, across the internet, t.v., radio, the planet. You're a low life that makes money off of treating young girl's and underage girl's too. You're nothing but a PERV. and a PREDATOR!!! (HELLO, that's why they put you in jail, before the I.R.S. nabbed for ducking out on paying your taxes.) You're the lowest of scum, the scum on the scum scraped off the bottom of a sewer!!! If your family condone's what you do then THEY'RE JUST AS SICK AS YOU!!!! There now, maybe that will take the sting off what Candy wrote to you, Don't ya feel better! As good as the pleasure you get out of being known for selling Porn! JACK OFF TO THAT YOU SCUM SUCKING PUKE! (Ahhh hell I bet you're loving this, you're probably into S&M too!!) BET YOU'RE GONNA BE REAL POPULAR IN PRISON.!!!

Posted at 4:54PM on May 19th 2007 by dragonflylmw

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