4 Women Sue 'Girls Gone Wild' Founder Joe Francis for Underage Filming
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis resolved his Florida criminal case by pleading no contest to filming underaged girls, but his raunchy video series is still getting him in legal trouble in the Panhandle.
Four additional women sued him last week alleging he exploited them. They say they were 17, 16, 15 and 13 when the company solicited them to participate in sexually provocative videos in 2003 and earlier. They want unspecified monetary damages.
Francis' spokesman did not return a phone call Tuesday.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The lawsuit was filed by the same Panama City lawyers who sued Francis in 2003. He settled the older case last year. Another woman sued him in July, saying he got her to expose her breasts for the cameras when she was 16.
Francis went free after nearly a year in jail early this month after pleading no contest to child abuse and prostitution. He was sentenced to time served, but faces a federal tax evasion trial in Nevada.