Joe Francis, the man behind the Girls Gone Wild videos, is the contemporary king of softcore, though he's had trouble lately being left alone to enjoy his ill-gotten booty. (Take it away, Beavis and Butt-Head!) Francis managed to spend most of the past year in a prison in Reno, Nevada, basically for having pissed off a judge. Francis had been charged with some seventy counts, but when the charges started dropping off and the smoke cleared, all that was left standing were a couple of felony charges and a couple of prostitution charges that stemmed from a Girls Gone Wild cameraman having filmed a pair of seventeen-year-olds with fake I.D.s Joel Stein reports that "When the underage girls sued Francis for $70 million and a judge, in a bizarre move, ordered the parties to go to mediation, Francis arrived at a hearing and made only one offer to the girls’ lawyers: 'Suck my dick'...

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