O.J. on Bail While Francis Chills in Cooler

16. FREE JOE !! FREE JOE !! FREE JOE !!!

Posted at 2:13PM on Sep 25th 2007 by Kaitlin

17. Why is Joe still in jail

Posted at 1:06PM on Sep 20th 2007 by Joe!!!!!

18. the bastard had sex with several underaged girls. he deserves to rot in hell or at least jail

Posted at 1:09PM on Sep 20th 2007 by Coco Arquette

19. Joe Francis is in jail for a contempt charge stemming from his refusal to comply with the court-order in the main civil case, not the civil case itself. But what's not being said is that this slimebag is sitting in jail in Nevada ON PURPOSE, so he won't have to be extradited back to Florida to face the more serious sexual suit/charges against him there. He's not a murderer, but he's a nasty piece of work no matter how you slice it. He's based his entire empire on exploiting young, stupid drunk girls-- not illegal, but hardly honorable. Let the douchebag rot in obscurity, I say.

Posted at 1:09PM on Sep 20th 2007 by cubalibre

20. I can believe this story

Posted at 1:09PM on Sep 20th 2007 by gh

21. Joe Francis is my hero!

Posted at 1:10PM on Sep 20th 2007 by Alex

22. 1st!!!!! Joe Rules!!!!!!!!! Let him out!!

Posted at 1:11PM on Sep 20th 2007 by 1st

23. why are there no criminal charges for making pornographic tapes of minors anyway? that's what he should be in jail for, not on the civil case..

Posted at 1:12PM on Sep 20th 2007 by kris

24. Read this LA Times article and you know what kind of a bastard Joe Francis is. He should never walk free again.

excerpt LA Times:

"Szyszka tells me later that as she was spinning around the strip pole that night, Francis appeared, grabbed her arm and pulled her toward him. 'You are so going on the bus later,' she recalls Francis saying. "I was like, 'Um, OK.' I was shocked. I was like, 'Whoa—Joe's, like, trying to talk to me, like out of all the girls in here.'" Francis invited her back to the VIP area to do shots with him, she says, and she said yes.

Szyszka says the more shots she drank, the cloudier her judgment became. She says she agreed to join Francis and his crew on the "Girls Gone Wild" bus. "I thought 'Girls Gone Wild' was like flashing, and I thought I would flash them and be done. And so when I'm walking to the bus, that's all I'm thinking is going to happen."

At first she felt comfortable, she says. Inebriated and excited, she says she was led to the back of the bus, to a small bedroom. The double bed, with its neatly folded iridescent purple sheets, takes up most of the room. A flat-screen TV faces the bed, and cabinets are 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 waivers for girls to sign. A small bathroom is off to the side, with a half-sized shower with faux marble tiling, and on the floor of the shower is a crate holding cheap and fruity-flavored rum, whiskey, tequila and Kool-Aid.

Footage from that night shows a close-up of Szyszka's driver's license, proving she's not a minor. The camera then captures Szyszka lying on the bed. Her nails are chipped, her eyes coated with makeup. Following a camerman's instructions, she shows her breasts and says, 'Girls Gone Wild.' She seems shy but willing. She smiles. The unseen cameraman asks her to take off her shirt, her skirt, then her underwear. She sprawls on the bed, her legs open. At his suggestion, she masturbates with a dildo, saying repeatedly that it hurts but also feels good. Francis enters the room at certain points and you hear his voice, low and flirtatious, telling her, 'You are so adorable.' When she says she's a virgin, he responds: 'Great. You won't be after my cameraman gets done with you.'

When I talk to Szyszka seven days later, she says she "didn't quite realize" she was being filmed. 'But I didn't care because I was drunk and who cares?# Then she adds: 'It didn't feel good to me at all, but I was totally faking it because I was on 'Girls Gone Wild.''

Eventually, Szyszka says, Francis told the cameraman to leave and pushed her back on the bed, undid his jeans and climbed on top of her. 'I told him it hurt, and he kept doing it. And I keep telling him it hurts. I said, 'No' twice in the beginning, and during I started saying, 'Oh, my god, it hurts.' I kept telling him it hurt, but he kept going, and he said he was sorry but kissed me so I wouldn't keep talking."
Afterward, she says, Francis cleaned them both off with a paper towel and told her to get dressed. Then, she says, he opened the door and told the cameraman to come back, saying, 'She's not a virgin anymore.'

Szyszka says Francis told her that what happened had to stay between them. She says she agreed, and they walked to the front of the bus. Szyszka remembers that one of the crew returned her driver's license. * Another asked if she wanted to hang out on the bus. She declined, she says, but asked for three pairs of 'booty short' underwear that Francis had promised her for appearing on camera. 'They gave me a weird look like that was too much,' Szyszka recalls. 'They were, like, 'Three of them?' and I was, like, 'Yeah, three.''

Within days, Szyszka says, she told her father, who was angry about what she said had happened but kept quiet at her request. A month after the incident, she says, she told her sister and mother.

She's confused, she admits, about what happened. She feels guilty, she says, for getting herself into the situation in the first place. She says she never would have undressed for the cameras if she hadn't been completely drunk. And she is adamant that she said "no" to Francis. She says she's haunted by that night.

'I feel like it was planned,' she says. 'Sometimes I'm driving along, and I think about it and all of a sudden feel weird.'

Six weeks after that night outside Chicago, when I call Francis on his cellphone and ask him about the incident, he says he doesn't remember Szyszka and that he didn't have sex with anyone that night. He seems to lose control, repeatedly referring to me by a crude word for female genitalia. 'If you print that, I will [expletive] sue the [expletive] out of you. If you print that, baby, you just put the nail in your own coffin,' he tells me. 'You are a [expletive expletive]. You decided to blast me . . . You are a [expletive] ***** . . . I will get my last laugh on you. I will get you." He then refers me to Burke, his lawyer.

In an e-mail, Burke says Francis and Szyszka did have sex—consensual sex—and that neither Francis nor anyone affiliated with "Girls Gone Wild" gave her any alcohol. 'Neither Mr. Francis nor any of the GGW staff in or around the bus recall Ms. Szyszka making any complaint or comment about Mr. Francis. In fact, Ms. Szyszka was in good spirits after the encounter, and numerous witnesses have stated that she danced with her friends outside the bus for nearly two hours afterward,' Burke writes. He adds: 'Though Mr. Francis cannot speak to Ms. Szyszka's discomfort during the encounter, other news stories have commented that Mr. Francis is reputedly well-endowed.'"

http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-gonewild32aug06,0,2664370.story

Posted at 1:16PM on Sep 20th 2007 by me

25. You people who post here and call a criminal your "hero" seem to have lost the plot. Investigate this matter, read quality papers... and you'll find out what this man has done!

Everybody who calls Joe Francis a "hero" and types "free him" without having investigated the case better should keep his mouth shut! You're supporting a criminal.

Posted at 1:21PM on Sep 20th 2007 by you call a criminal a "hero"?

26. LET ME GET THIS RIGHT, O.J, R-KELLY, BOTH OUT OF JAIL AND STEVE FRANCIS STILL LOCKED UP ......................Explain that to me.

Posted at 1:39PM on Sep 20th 2007 by Luke

27. Girls Gone Wild came to my campus once and it was awesome, i see nothing wrong with Joe

Posted at 1:23PM on Sep 20th 2007 by Me

28. O.J.'s out because he goes after his own posessions, not under-age girls.

Posted at 1:24PM on Sep 20th 2007 by Regardless

29. Joe is a hero, i saw him save a puppy once, it was amazing

Posted at 1:25PM on Sep 20th 2007 by Hero

30. what a sick b%%%tard.. He can rot in jail for all I care.

Posted at 1:35PM on Sep 20th 2007 by luca